Riches Blog

I hate bumping in to people I don’t want to see; it’s on par in fear terms with the thought of Cosmetic eyelid surgery … Yeah, It really puts a downer on my day and I’m sure you get that. You know how it is, you’re walking down the road minding your own [...]

Ah, that great word. That word symbolic of time spent at school doing things that one should not, at the back of the class-room, engrossed in full concentration on the task in hand. The doodle: king of art in all text-books. The doodle: the thing which can make even the dullest of lessons just about [...]

I am feeling strange. And for very good reason. It begins like this: this morning I went to get the bus to work. Getting the bus to work, as anyone who hasn’t got the bus in many, many years will know, is a horrendous experience similar to the thought of dinner with Hitler, or [...]

Throughout my life I have been known as someone who is, and this annoys me to type it, ‘a bit fussy’. It’s rubbish, of course. I am not ‘a bit fussy’! It’s extremely simple and non-confusing: I am actually just an average man who wants things done a certain way. What’s wrong with that? I [...]

Everyone is different, I understand that. I wouldn’t want to live in a world where everyone is the same (unless they were the same as Pamela Anderson and I was a fifteen year-old boy, of course, in which case of course I damn well would). But why, oh why, can’t people, when they are introducing [...]

I don’t drink tea outside of my home anymore. A strong statement, yes, but I have my reasons. You see, tea is far too special to be drinking just anywhere. Drink it anywhere and it becomes cheap. You wouldn’t take your Sunday roast dinner—normally eaten pride fully at the family table in the atmosphere such [...]

I’m feeling slightly deflated. But I have good reason to feel so! I’ve just learnt that the UK (and I am an Englishman through and through) isn’t exclusive to having a North / South divide–apparently the US also has its very own! And it would have to have one, wouldn’t it? And a fair bit [...]