Daniel Etherington

According to Vodafone, who are presenting this message with a really daft advert involving billions of tiny cogs and things falling from the sky like rain, or something like that. Not only is a it a dumb, crappy advert, and one that gets my weird fiddly object phobia going, its message is also just unutterable [...]

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Is still doing my head in somewhat. I’ve got two friend requests sitting in my inbox – one from an old friend who I haven’t had any contact with for about two years after we slowly fell out, one from the brother of a childhood friend (who I had a really falling out with).
In the [...]

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According to the Times today that’s how many we’re facing, presumably in Britain, because of the weather this summer – loads of rain, very little sun. A crop scientist from Bayer is quoted saying “It’s slug heaven this year. These figures are unprecedented. We have never seen such high numbers before. Our counts are up [...]

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Although I’m probably not actually middle-aged (despite being approximately half way to the average life expectancy of a British male), the concept of a mid-life crisis is something I’m very much starting to relate to. I spend most of my time either angry or depressed, or if neither of those things, simply frustrated (with my [...]

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Well, humanity’s is proving its despicableness (and yes, that is a word, despite how ugly it is and how much my spellcheck doesn’t like it) again. In this case, it’s the Chinese specifically. China really does seem to be putting a lot of effort into making the sort of environmental rape and pillage mistakes other [...]

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