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7 Reasons to get an Archipod

7 Reasons to get an Archipod

This, in case you haven’t seen one before, is an archipod.  It’s a home office that you can put in your garden.  This is why you need one. 1.  External Aesthetics. Look at it.  Just look at it!  It’s amazing.  It’s a pod that looks like a giant beehive.  It’s got a door that opens upwards like a DeLorean or a gull-wing Mercedes or a spaceship or something.  It has a porthole.  A porthole!  It looks like the coolest thing in...

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7 Reasons These Phrases Just Don’t Make Sense

7 Reasons These Phrases Just Don’t Make Sense

1.  Get On Like A House On Fire. So this means you supposedly get on really well with someone. Marc and I, for example, get on like a house on fire. Unfortunately, if a house is on fire, it is going to burn to the ground. Soon there will be no house. There will be ashes. It will be the end. So really, if people get on like a house on fire, it actually means the relationship won’t last. So like I say, Marc and I get on like a house on...

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7 Reasons Not to Have a Dinner Party

7 Reasons Not to Have a Dinner Party

  1.  The bad-egg.  At any dinner party, at least one person will behave badly and annoy all of the other guests.  It’s always a man.  Often it’s me. 2.  Multi-tasking.  Women can multi-task – they demonstrate this by talking during films.  This means that they approach both hosting and cooking for a dinner party with confidence, which makes it all the more tragic when your tearful hostess returns from the kitchen bearing a...

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7 Reasons to Paint Your Front Door Orange

7 Reasons to Paint Your Front Door Orange

Your front door isn't orange, and you're probably quite happy with that arrangement. But you shouldn't be. I've been considering the colour of your front door for a while now, and there are seven reasons that you should paint you front door orange. And here they are. You're welcome.

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