If you don’t love Dolly Parton, we need to check for a pulse. The Queen of Country is nothing short of a cultural icon - with hundreds of millions of records sold worldwide, her very own theme park Dollywood, and more g...
So, I was out walking this morning when I realised the ground was covered in ice - ****, it’s winter, I realised. We can quibble over the specifics another time, but you don’t have to be a meteorologist or an astrologer...
. It’s become a hot topic in the UK recently. When it’s scorching out, nothing beats it. But thanks to this country’s terrible water quality, opportunities for a (healthy) dip in a lake/river are becoming increasingly f...
When I was eight years old, my neighbour had a Christmas Eve party. Waiting to go home, well past midnight, while my parents said their drunken goodbyes, I looked up at the stars and thought I saw Father Christmas flyin...
I often worry that when I die my family will go through my Google search history and instantly disown me. There’s nothing too racy. Just an embarrassing list of C-list celebrities whose careers I want to keep up with, d...
Between the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the coronation of the King and England almost winning the Euros twice, the phrase “extra bank holiday” has been thrown around a lot in recent years. It’s obvious eight bank holidays...
What does £125,000 get you these days? Well, not a lot it seems. It could ALMOST get you a place to live in Glasgow, if you're lucky. When the average flat in Scotland's largest city, according to , will set you back mo...
Pray for clear weather this week. The last supermoon of the year could add extra brightness to the night sky when you’re heading home from work after dark. After the first supermoon in August (also a Blue Moon), followe...
UK skies are blessed with around 30 meteor showers each year, but few are as breathtaking as the Leonids. It’s known for some of the most beautiful, fast and bright meteors imaginable - and at its peak, you can see up t...
Pasta for lunch, pasta for dinner, hell, we’ll even have leftover pasta for ! There’s never not been a time we’re not happy to chow down on the world’s great dish. But we’ll be extra celebrating this World Pasta Day (Oc...