Sand a mushroom... Ring McDonald’s and complain about the food... Write a book about a previous life... Polish the ceiling... Plait your dog’s hair... Wash a tree. Bored to tears? On the bus, in a lecture, at home or at work, let’s face it: life can be mind-numbingly boring sometimes. Brighten up your drab and wholly pointless life and waste away vital hours with these brainless and completely daft...
A humorous collection of the most bizarre, ridiculous and biggest foul-ups ever made. Read the incredible true stories of: • The man who mistakenly ‘answered’ a gun instead of a ringing telephone and shot himself • The terrorist whose letter bomb was ‘returned to sender’ because he hadn’t used enough stamps • The man who threw a stick of lit dynamite only to watch his dog run off and retrieve it •...
For motorcycle ace Axel Warlow it takes a journey to the Isle of Man TT races to find that the apple never falls far from the tree. Saying Goodbye is Never Easy transports the listener to the world famous circuit, vividly bringing to life both the motorcycle festival and its many attractions. As Axel unknowingly retreads his feckless fathers footsteps a blond is not the only bombshell waiting just...
Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger . . .' John's three-week holiday in India starts badly. After his girlfriend falls ill with a severe case of 'Delhi belly' and returns home alone, he finds himself looking at the sharp end of a knife in a train...
Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,' beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges. It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security...
In India, young elephants are trained in obedience by being tied to an immovable object like a tree. No matter how hard the baby elephant pulls it cannot break free, and eventually, after trying to break away and being thwarted time and again, it believes that it cannot escape, no matter what it does. Ultimately, a fully-grown adult weighing several tons can be tied to a twig and won’t even try to...
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