Question 17 in the Individual Questions section of the UK Census is “intentionally blank” and will drive you slowly mad. Here are seven reasons why.

I got stuck behind a cow yesterday. This is my story. 1.  Reflect…on the countryside and the beauty of it all. The greens and the yellows and the reds and the blues that you always take for granted. The only thing missing is the black and the white. Because it’s on the bloody line in front of you.   2.  Relax…a cow on the line is fairly harmless. Unless it’s two terrorists on the way to pantomime. You should be...

One of the questions we never get asked is, ‘Why do you always write in English?’ Here’s the answer.* 1.  Francais. Même si je été dans le décodeur pour le français tout le chemin jusqu’à mes 16 ans, ma connaissance de la langue, maintenant que je suis 27 est assez pauvre. Ou, pour quelqu’un qui n’a absolument aucune intention de se rendre en France, sacrément bon. 2.  Deutsch. Vorcestershire...

1.  It’s the M4. What sort of road is that to start on? Surely logic would dictate that you build up to it? B roads to A roads to motorways. And then you wouldn’t start on the M4 would you? It would go M1, M2, M3 then M4. Fail to prepare, prepare to get arrested. 2.  Breakdown Cover. The AA and the RAC don’t provide cover for golf buggies. Which means if you get stuck between junctions you have got to push the thing bloody...

  Radio legend and BBC Radio 5Live newsreader, Rachael Hodges, has recently begun presenting the sport on BBC News, the BBC’s 24 hour rolling news television channel.  She’s not sure when she’s on, but it will definitely be today, and tomorrow…probably.  Here are 7 reasons to watch. 1. USP. Rachael Hodges has this rather wonderful quality that means she can take even the most mundane of things and turn them into...