Chop's Top Fives

We've lived in Shepperton for almost seven years now and are very much at home. It has the same suburban village feel I grew up with in ...

As a kid my favourite ball to kick about in the back garden was a light bouncy plastic one. The sort you can get from Tesco for a quid now. ...

The school summer holidays are all but over and I've completely failed to build up a stock pile of top fives to kick start me on the wee...

Flicking through the channels the other day we stumbled across an episode of the Wombles. A great opportunity to show the boys what "pr...

Created by Terry Nation (the man who invented the Daleks), Blake's 7 was the BBC's answer to Star Wars. It was the talk of the play...

Last Monday (20th July) marked the 40th anniversary of the first men to walk on the moon. I was 1 at the time so don't have any genuine...

More Washington Post based fun following lasts week's alternative definitions. The WP also asked readers to take any word from the dicti...

The Washington Post runs a neologism contest in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. I had an email the ...

I'm not someone who pays a great deal of attention to lyrics, it's the tune that gets my attention. When I do notice the words it...

A little off my normal topic but this made me laugh. John Campbell's take on the media perception of celebrity deaths. So true. Check ou...