A woman who records her sleep-talking husband’s mutterings has become an internet sensation.
In the past week, over half a million people from over 50 different countries have read the blog.
In her ‘Sleep Talkin’ Man’ blog, Karen Slavick-Lennard says, that her “mild-mannered English husband” Adam lives a “colourful existence in his dreams”.
Adam, who works in advertising, […]
Pancakes; sitcoms; breasts; sandcastles; barbecue weather; cheese sandwiches. They don’t look like items that would fall naturally into one category. But for each of these things, there’s a formula for the perfect version.
It’s something that irks scientists and mathematicians everywhere, who feel that such formulae – appearing with some frequency in the press – undermine […]
A London restaurant, wanting to let its customers carve their own steaks off the bone, has gone to extreme measures to satisfy the requirements of local Health and Safety officers.
When inspectors learned about plans by the Green Door Steakhouse to put a ‘carve your own’ 5-bone rib eye steak on its Christmas menu, it advised […]
An exotic berry which has been prescribed as a cure in Chinese medicine since 600AD has landed in the UK for the first time as a fruit juice.
Organic Yang-Mei Juice from Yumberry is the first fruit juice in the UK to be made exclusively from the yang-mei berry.
The fruit has grown in China for over […]
The image of Britain’s children, unable to sleep on Christmas Eve due to excitement and anticipation, could soon be obsolete.
A new study shows that magical feeling looks set to become a thing of the past as over half (54%) of parents will ask their children exactly what they want for Christmas.
19% even admit that they’ll […]
Some of the country’s leading food bloggers met yesterday to take part in a ground-breaking experiment that sought to bring the online world to an offline setting.
At a special lunch, co-hosted by Chapel Down English wines and Roast, a classical British restaurant in Borough Market, the writers of seven influential food blogs were tasked with […]
“Urgh. But it does something I hate, and that is: vindicate the existence of Twitter.”
A couple of friends and I were sitting in a bar after work, having a discussion about an ethical issue that one of the group could take to a debate at his MBA class the following week. The topic of Carter […]
I like to think that I’m quite relatively au fait with current affairs and what’s going on around the world – enough to get me through a dinner party situation, at least (so long as I’m not sat next to anyone from the International Institute for Strategic Studies).
But even for an international news junkie, this […]
One of the biggest media stories of the week has undoubtedly been the Sun’s withdrawal of its support from the Labour party.
“Labour’s lost it” was Wednesday’s headline, which generated an incredible amount of coverage, and not just about the paper’s political swing. Whether one media outlet – and, more specifically, a newspaper – has sufficient […]
An army of fruit pickers will arrive at vineyards across Southern England this morning (Monday 28 September) to begin this year’s grape harvest.
Winery bosses, while reluctant to use the term “bumper”, are “quietly optimistic” the crop will be significantly higher than the previous two years and even better quality.
Although much of Britain hardly saw a […]
