Henrys Journal

Pat / Pam

Pat Butcher. Pam St. Clements. Whatever name is familiar I’m sure you know who I’m on about; she was the one who would make a good candidate for Gastric band surgery. Need another hint? Well, she was Pauline Flowers arch-nemesis / sometimes best friend, of course, and in trouble more times per episode than any character ever was (apart from possibly Dot’s disastrous son Nasty Nick). Whatever you know her as, you know her as the backbone of never-less-than-grim More

Greg The Destroyer

The first time I saw a man with a pony-tail I flinched, then hid behind a wall. This was the closest I had ever come to a ponytail in the wild. I had seen them on TV, swaying dramatically and looking mean, but never in real life. I was unprepared, unknowledgeable about how to act around such a creature, and scared for my life. I waited until the figure walked away, then I calmed myself down before running away as More

Diving in Football

I have been watching plenty of Champions League football over the last few weeks and months and most of it has been great. The Champions League brings the best clubs in Europe together to compete against each other for the biggest prize in club football and some of the talent on display is unbelievable at times.

Rooney, Ronaldo, Lampard, Gerrard, Buffon and Lionel Messi are just some of the superstars who regularly feature in the Champions League with their respective More

Perish The Thought

I have to admit it: years ago I used to sit on the bus and think that people with massive ear-phones on their heads were showing off. Jokers! Monsters! Cretins! Evil Ones! Take them away and be gone! I thought. There seemed no need for it when you could get tiny little ear-phones which did a perfectly good job. No need at all! They looked like aliens to me, these people, and whenever I saw one I stared from afar, More

Match THIS

Hold on to your horses all you people out there who actually look in the mirror before you go out into the world, for I am to make a statement right here and right now! Here is that thing: I don’t see why everything has to match. Why does it? Symmetry I can understand, but matching everything there is to match up? Doesn’t life loose its fun when we try to control everything we can?

Not to mention the time More

Love It

Nerds! Geeks! Dorks! Dweebs! You have to love them all. Whatever variation a super-clever, computer-loving (occasionally socially-inept, but I am in no way suggesting that’s every one, it’s a very small number!) individual comes in, they are loveable for several reasons: OK, half the time they might not be able to communicate their incredible ideas so well—only because us non-nerds don’t have the brain-capacity to handle what they are on about, which is our own stupid fault—but they are the More