“This can’t be right,” said my wife, eyeing a narrow path squeezed between a cemetery and a railway line. It…

When I was five years old, I remember a visit I made to the pediatrician. He measured my foot, then…

A thousand and one uses. Tasteful energy. The real mayonnaise. Everyone uses or uses and abuses. All of the above…

Having been born at a time that predated the indiscriminate use of the internet, I saw my childhood plagued by…

It may seem obvious what I am going to say next, coming from a monothematic blog like this. But I…

There are films I always stop to watch, when I come across them on television.  It’s as if my brain…

If you’re an engineer or a meteorologist, you probably know the Chaos Theory. If you’re not, I’ll explain. The Chaos…

Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 –…

My daughter is studying Brazilian folklore at school. Yesterday, she came to tell me that her favourite folk character is…

Once I mentioned the Ariel Atom, a car that can hardly be considered a car.  There is no radio, no…