Chop's Top Fives

Just when I thought I'd have to miss a week someone mentions a topic to me (cheers Al) that I reckon I can knock off pretty quick. As a ...

After another ridiculously busy week at work its nice to have a few minutes to consider some ridiculous comedy. I watched the BBC tribute ...

The nineties has proved to be my favourite decade in film. I’m not sure why but there are enough contenders for this top 5 to make a decent ...

I'm not the biggest gambler in the world but I do enjoy the occasional flutter. Two quid on the first goalscorer or a fiver on some non-...

I have a growing stack of top fives that need more time than I've got to complete so it's handy to find a quicky topic every now and...

You may not have noticed but I recently changed the font of this blog from Arial to Verdana. I can get a bit obsessive about fonts. This pro...

Hastings pier was almost completely destroyed by fire last week following an arson attack. It set me thinking about my favourite Piers, a d...

It's a week late but thanks to the Google Doodle I noticed it was the 50th anniversary of The Flintstones last Thursday. Unlike most of...

We're currently going through the anguish of looking at secondary schools for our eldest. This largely involves visiting different scho...

1983 was my year zero for music. The point at which I started to take an interest in music beyond what I heard on Top of the Pops and that I...