Lsd – a piffiling proposal for Boris de Piffle
An open letter to Prime Minister Johnson encouraging a return to the Great British currency. Down with the decimal, up with the Imperial Lsd!
An open letter to Prime Minister Johnson encouraging a return to the Great British currency. Down with the decimal, up with the Imperial Lsd!
The pinman in the hazard triangle lives a dangerous life. Here’s a sonnet to celebrate his superhuman contribution to human safety.
Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)
A retelling of the story of St Uncumber, once the protector of women in bad marriages, now sadly demoted.
Ollio’s Facebook, this week’s photo, is a piece of graffiti by Jonathan Ollio Josefsson that I originally published on 22nd May 2013.
In which we meditate on hypochondria, my father’s cancer and my family’s gene pool – and take a quick look at Three Men in a Boat.
We investigate some of the language problems an English traveller may run into when trying to speak le français with the dubious aid of a phrase book.
There’s a hubbub in the town
and the story’s going round
that the wordsmiths will articulate today.
Just a head cold, people say. Most people seem to think that confessing to having a cold is a bit lame. The fashionable disease is the flu.
Resolutions: a parody of the twisted information about the history of Janus and New Year Resolutions available from various Internet sites.