The corner shop or convenience store will often come in really handy when you need something and everywhere else is shut, but always check the best before date and the freshness of produce before you leave.

As we are fed our daily helpings of advertising, I felt it was really important to offer people out there some technology advice on what to buy, that way you'll be happy and fulfilled - or not!

Fireworks are a menace. Full stop. Loud, irritating and worthless in every respect. Have fireworks become the new ego extension for the lower classes? 'Look how big mine is' and 'See how loud that was'...

The typical British holiday maker in Spain, don't they make you just want to cringe? Ordering chips with everything with no attempt made to try a little Spanish, wandering around half naked, white blubber just hanging out.

I recently paid for, and went on, a holiday to Disneyland, Paris. I took my fiancée for her 21st birthday. Whilst there we had some abysmal service and so when I got back I wrote this VERY long letter of complaint.

I don't know about you but I am growing sick of the number of foreign registered vehicles on UK roads. We should adopt the same system as Austria, one that makes it impossible to dodge road tax.

After selling my car, recently, I called my insurance provider to cancel the policy. I had a very lengthy discussion with the customer service advisor about whether I should suspend the policy and continue to pay it.

Well the script-writer of Life in Britain, that dreadful soap-opera, has decided to write down or out the current cast, economically to begin with, and truly and wholly later on. This show is surely in its last episodes.

The Analogue switch over! We are being sold the future as digital; cars, kitchen appliances, cameras, TV, radio, supermarkets. But the future is sluggish. The future is not performing and there is no instant gratification...

I must admit my job wouldn't suit everyone as I'm employed as a Pathologist's assistant and also work in the mortuary of a local hospital. The thing that really gets to me is the fact that people think I must be odd to do such a job.