A couple of funny things I’ve read on Hong Kong blogs recently. Shaky seems to be inhabiting the world of a Brian Rix farce. It’s the old story about someone who is sleeping somewhere unfamiliar and walks out of the front door rather than into the bathroom, preferably naked. Personally, I preferred it when it…

Shaky is (I think) complaining that the reaction to the death of Ronald Reagan is out of proportion, especially the day’s holiday for most US civil servants this Friday. He points out that there was no holiday in the UK for the 60th anniversary of D-Day or for the Queen Mother’s funeral. True. There was…

Strangest endorsement of the week comes from The Economist, who are supporting Ken Livingstone in Thursday’s election for Mayor of London.  I find this strange, firstly because Livingstone is normally regarded as a left-winger and The Economist is a right-wing newspaper, but also because it’s hard to see why they need to express an opinion at…

The latest piece of idiocy from the people who run football is apparently an effective ban on shirts with stripes on the back. It will start the season after next (2005-2006) in the English Premier League, but presumably they won’t stop there. The reasoning is that the players names on the back of shirts (introduced…

As Harry would say, damn the Internet with all its informative web sites. I have been taking Vitamin C every day for quite a long time, but I read this article saying that there is no evidence that it is effective, so I thought I would stop for a while. Inevitably, a couple of days…

You may have read that Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin have decided to call their new baby Apple Blythe Alison Martin. This has caused quite a lot of comment in various newspapers (in the UK, at least). The name Apple is a little unusual, but there’s nothing particularly odd about it, and they…

Cable TV have finally got round to converting our estate to their digital service.  No advance warning, though – a guy phoned up and said he would be coming in half an hour to change the convertor box, which he did, and it took him about five minutes to complete the job.    Disappointingly, the picture…

The Standard provides official confirmation that Cable TV has won the rights to the English Premier League starting next season, though there seems to be some dispute about the amount that Cable TV paid. They will be showing more matches, at least in part because there will be games at 12.30 and 5.15 (UK time)…

A big “Ordinary Gweilo” welcome to Chase me ladies, I’m in the cavalry, a new blog from someone who appears to be a Brit and a teacher. Quite funny, and he appears to have a group of friends making comments, which helps (on the whole). I sometimes receive requests from people who ask me to…