Tag: That’s Life!

  • Back To School

    I distinctly remember that the “back to school” signs didn’t go up in the shops until about two weeks before the end of the holidays when I was young. When the signs went up, my heart would sink and the remainder of the holidays would be tainted with the oncoming threat of school and the…

  • Jordan or Katie Price?

    I happened upon Katie Price in WHSmiths in The Mall, Bristol today. I didn’t actually see her because she was surrounded by people gawping and taking pics on their mobiles. It is quite extra ordinary how someone can have that effect on people. I was surprised that the secruity people referred to her as Katie…

  • The Power of Advertising

    I came across the tomb of Lionel Lockyer in Southwark Cathedral last weekend. He invented a cure-all pill, which, it appears was basically antimony. I’m indebted to an article, by Dr David Haycroft, for letting me know that the pills were called Pilula, Radiis solis extracta — pills extracted from the rays of the Sun!…