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2022-08-31 17:44
Are you sitting comfortably?Then I shall begin.In 1703, a girl called Mary Denyer was born in Godalming in Surrey. I’ve never been to Godalming, but from what I read online, it’s… Read More
2020-01-08 21:49
If you've read my previous post, you'll know I've got megalophobia - a completely irrational fear of things bigger than myself. Apparently we're all born with two inherent fears - loud noise… Read More
2018-06-23 21:26
If you don't know, 'catfishing' is where people talk online and pose to be someone that they are not for a variety of reasons - because they want to cheat, because their own life needs excit… Read More
2018-06-23 21:01
Tonight, as I do most evenings whilst I'm working away, I put on a documentary as a bit of background noise, but for the first time in a long time I didn't get on with my writing. I'd spied… Read More
2017-10-22 16:10
Today's FOD is all about today- March 19th- which up until the last hundred years or so actually meant something as today is St. Joseph's Day. Step-daddy of Jesus and long suffering husband… Read More
2017-10-22 16:08
So it's been a while since I've written up an FOD, and I do have a good excuse for my slovenly writing routine. Obviously, I've been working a lot and lately I've also been spending lot… Read More
2017-10-22 16:07
Today’s Fact of the Day is all about bubble wrap- that beautiful medium that has provided adults and children alike with years of bubble bursting, stress relieving fun.
It was… Read More
2017-10-22 16:05
Bobby Leach was born in Cornwall in 1858 and was the first bloke to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1911.
He spent six months afterwards laid up in hospital with a fracture… Read More
2017-10-22 16:05
Storming Normandy with a sword. Like. A. Boss.
Today’s Fact of the Day is all about someone who should make you proud to be English and if I was ever stuck in a war, I’d want t… Read More
2017-10-22 16:04
Your Fact of the Day for today is all about atomic bombs and a guy that makes Vin Diesel, Jason Statham and even the mighty Chuck Norris look like little girls.
Only two cities have… Read More
2017-10-22 16:03
Today’s Festive FOD is all about a Norwegian Christmas tradition based on an old legend.
Apparently on Christmas Eve, all the witches and evil spirits come to town and search… Read More
2017-10-22 16:03
Today’s Festive Fact of the Day is all about an odd Christmas tradition in Caracus, Venezuela.
It’s a mainly Catholic population there, and there’s an early mornin… Read More
2017-10-22 16:03
Today’s Festive Fact of the Day takes us over to Japan, where for the last forty odd years, having a family meal at KFC has been a Christmas Tradition.
In fact, it’s suc… Read More
2017-10-22 16:02
Today's FOD is all about a wonder of nature, science and pure courage- ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the story of Miracle Mike!
Born in 1945, Mike was a cockerel that lived a… Read More
2017-10-22 16:02
It's been a pretty rubbish Winter so far- very little snow, which I adore, but biting cold in November and relentless Lancashire rain ever since. With that in mind, I reckon it's time for a… Read More
2017-10-22 16:02
Today’s festive Fact of the Day is all about Santa’s reindeer.
Although all the songs will tell you about Rudolph and his red nose, or Donna, Dancer, Blitzen and the rest of them… Read More
2017-10-22 16:01
These days, we all use computers and mobile phones and whether deliberately or not, not many of us write anything by hand any more.
For those of us that do, the students and writers… Read More
2017-10-22 16:01
Monday’s Fact of the Day is all about ancient sayings, and is told with a story that began in the UK in the 1500s.
There wasn’t a lot of space to bury people back then… Read More
2017-10-22 16:00
Today’s Fact of the Day is all about the Marines- the roughest, toughest infantry force of them all. Known for being fearless hard nuts, the marines are the indeed the bosses. … Read More
2017-10-22 16:00
Today’s Fact of the Day is inspired by He Who Must Be Queried, who purchased a chunky cardigan from eBay a couple of days ago and didn’t realise until it arrived that he’d… Read More
2017-10-22 15:52
When I was a kid, 'cos I was taught at home, I was often taken to museums and art galleries and such to learn about the world around me. Sometimes, the exhibitions on would be boring, and ot… Read More
2017-10-22 15:05
Previously, when I've either broadcast or published FODs, the assumption has always been that I'm some kind of sick individual that goes to Google and types in lots of rudey words for the lu… Read More
2017-10-22 14:47
I discovered this site this evening, and sheer curiosity has now punched me in the face.
If you want to find out how pretty you are, according to mathematics- as the more symmetrical… Read More
2017-08-15 17:11
Since it’s quite nippy out there at the moment, Monday’s Fact of the Day is all about Yakutsk in Siberia, which is the coldest city on earth.
It has a population of 200… Read More
2017-08-15 17:10
Wednesday’s Fact of the Day is all about shoe sizes. I’m a UK size 6.5, which is a Euro size 40, but have you ever wondered who made up the sizing systems to get to those numbers… Read More
2017-08-15 17:10
Tuesday’s Fact of the Day is all about a new word for your vocabulary- ‘Gymnophobia’.
Gymnophobics have an abnormal and persistant fear of nudity, experiencing anx… Read More
2017-08-15 17:09
In the UK, if you're an old fogey with dodgy joints, it's normal to pick up a couple of bottles of Seven Seas cod liver oil capsules on your weekly big shop to combat the problem. Equally, i… Read More
2017-08-15 17:09
Thursday’s Fact of the Day is all about First Aid and song lyrics- a strange combination I know, but bear with me here.
In Paris in the early 19th century, a young girl drowne… Read More
2017-08-15 16:58
Today’s FOD is a short one, but also a kinda weird one too- we all know that chimpanzees and us human beings share 98% of the same genetic make-up, chimps cannot swim, and nobody knows… Read More
2017-08-15 16:58
Today’s FOD is all about sandwiches and how to make them taste better.
Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have just discovered that if you make sandwich of your own, y… Read More
2017-08-15 16:58
Today’s FOD is all about Frisbees.
Invented by Ed Headrick, the self-proclaimed father of Frisbee, he launched the product in America during the seventies and then founded a l… Read More
2017-08-15 16:57
Today’s FOD is all about the classic 80’s game Pac-Man- something that the majority of us either owned or played at least once.
However that wasn’t always going to… Read More
2017-08-15 16:57
Today’s FOD is all about Chupa Chups lollipops- the sweetie that always weirdly, seems to be on sale in chemists.
It was the first ever sweet on a stick to be sold in 1958, and also t… Read More
2017-08-15 16:56
Today’s FOD is a story all about a sad little town in Italy called Viganella.
The residents dread the winter season as the town is at the foot of a 1600 metre high mountain an… Read More
2017-08-15 16:56
There was once this bloke called Simon Fraser, who was the 11th Lord Lovat, who was born in London in 1667. By all accounts kept from his time on earth, he was a bit of Johnny Big Chips, who… Read More
2017-08-15 16:55
A long time ago, well, a couple of years at least, I spent a LOT of time at work. Literally all my life, birthdays, Christmases, funerals, Sundays and Bank Holidays were spent in an office o… Read More
2017-08-15 15:52
By far, one of the best film trailer edits known to man!
Today's FOD is all about the wee boy who played Danny in The Shining. Danny Lloyd was all of six years old when he was selected… Read More
2017-08-15 15:52
Yeah, I too thought that the phrase was simply a line by the Beatles which had in turn been covered by a
squillion kids tv shows, but it turns out that they are an actual thing.
Octopus… Read More
2017-08-15 15:51
My internet cruising time has been drastically reduced over the last month or so- a long story which I'm sure I'll discuss one day, but since the end of September I've mostly resided in a da… Read More
2017-08-15 15:50
As regular readers will be aware, despite being a dog person through and through, I obtained a cat earlier this year. I treat him like a dog, and he behaves like one, so everyone's happy, bu… Read More
2017-08-15 15:49
This is a relatively new FOD as this nugget of trivia is only a couple of days old, and being a cat owner, feline-related stories are often falling into my RSS feeds like chocolate digestive… Read More
2017-08-15 15:33
So last year, I came up with the genius idea of an experiment and living life without social media for as long as I could. My logic behind this was at the time, I thought I was in a pretty g… Read More
2016-01-26 12:29
When I bookmark something to blog about later, I really should make a note of what I was looking at before I stumbled upon whatever the site is, as otherwise I confuse myself wondering what… Read More
2016-01-25 13:47
...or like me, you simply want to look at and dream of the things you will be buying on the day your lottery win is finally cashed.
TheBillionaireShop.com is not unlike looking at your mo… Read More
2016-01-22 15:51
This is apparently me. I could lose weight, but will still wear ugly jeans apparently.
Months ago, I found an ingenious little website full of women (and some men too) that were all… Read More
2016-01-20 14:05
Once again, I was surfing the internet late at night, high on a cocktail of PG Tips and one too many Bourbon biscuits, and I found myself in a forum where the question was posed 'What's the… Read More
2016-01-20 13:59
2016-01-20 13:58
Last time I checked, I've been living on this campsite for nearly four months with a potential leaving date from this park in mid September.
I am housed- and I use that term loosely- in a… Read More
2016-01-20 13:58
I'm flying back to France on Wednesday morning, after having to return home for a doctor's appointment, and will be flying to Paris to negotiate my way way across the country by rail before… Read More
2016-01-20 13:57
2016-01-20 13:56
...I know, but have finally got a spare ten minutes to chuck an update together to say that although it's disappointing for some, I have not slipped off this mortal plane. What I have been d… Read More
2016-01-20 13:55
First post of 2016 and already it's near the end of January- start the year as I mean to go on, eh?
I feel like I've finally settled into my new gig where management clearly haven't worke… Read More
2015-02-02 18:49
On another one of my late night internet travels, I happened upon Plane Crash Info- a website dedicated to cataloguing all aspects of those rare occasions when planes just drop out of the sk… Read More
2015-02-02 18:49
This week, I spent the evening sorting out my Facebook friends into lists to prevent the annoying issues from..well, annoying me. If you haven't done this already, and you and me get an… Read More
2015-02-02 18:49
...and I freely admit that although it has happened a lot sooner than I thought, I am officially a Cat Lady.
This is not a future I'd planned; in fact as a 'dog person', it's not what I'd… Read More
2015-02-02 18:48
Last night I fell into a wormhole that weirded me out like no other. As always with wormholes, I start off looking for one thing in particular and before I know it, four hours has passed and… Read More
2015-02-02 18:48
Today I've been ill, so most of my day has been spent sat in bed feeling sorry for myself. Standard fare when you live with cats and they couldn't give a monkeys whether you're dead or alive… Read More
2015-02-02 18:48
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the high pitched noise Mariah Carey emits during 'Dream Lover' - instead it's an instrument used by the Aztecs which was only discovered by archaeologist… Read More
2015-02-02 18:46
THIS IS SOME MESSED UP SCHIZZLE.
This morning I was high as a kite on Nescafe's finest, cruising through forums and generally having a little upvote party, when I found some people discussi… Read More
2015-01-21 21:19
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2014-12-06 18:35
2014-10-05 19:05
By 'updated', I mean 'redesigned' and by 'redesigned' I really mean 'sat on my ass for most of Sunday afternoon looking at fonts with all the creative drive of a house brick. I didn't mean t… Read More
2014-06-19 11:27
Before I left for France and was awaiting my imminent departure, I had a Netflix account, which was abused every day as my penchant for gritty documentaries took hold. Unlike Dear Zachary, T… Read More
2014-06-17 11:20
Wherever I am in the world, whether I'm living in a tent in France or at home in my comfy bed, I always go to sleep to the sound of a documentary playing on my tablet next to me. This is for… Read More
2014-04-23 21:04
2012-11-15 16:44
Let me tell you the tale of Armstrong the Good Giraffe- a story of love,of kindness and above all generosity.
Armstrong the good giraffe can be sighted twice a week in Glasgow, Edi… Read More
2012-10-12 23:16
I'm going to be working on a website tonight, and whilst I was hunting for things on Google Images to inspire me, I saw something that was a little unnerving to say the least. It was this pi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
...and at the bottom of a box that once contained bottles of sauce bound for Kwik Save, I discovered some rather cringeworthy pieces of 'artwork'. It seems 6 year old me wanted prisoners tra… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
When I was a kid, my parents drank Nescafe Gold Blend. It was the 80s, the Gold Blend adverts were all the rage and I guess that even though I was a kid, I was still suckered into the decade… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I won't lie to you- this isn't exactly the happiest FOD I've ever written. And speaking of writing, this is my blog, or at least one of them. I love writing and over the years have done all… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I'm not a big fan of moths at all. I hate to dislike creatures, but moths, when you've got hair as massive as mine, are a nightmare. Moths can't be touched, lest their duct crumbles away and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sometimes, I'd like to consider myself brave in the face of pain- as a self proclaimed clumsy cow, I have walked many miles in heels unsuitable for my gait and posture with every step feelin… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
...I know, but have finally got a spare ten minutes to chuck an update together to say that although it's disappointing for some, I have not slipped off this mortal plane. What I have been d… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This evening I was going through my bookmarks, and I happened upon a link to a forum I found years ago, where some people had managed to get into Blackburn Royal Infirmary and taken a load o… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I did today. It made me beam! Read More
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