This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

I try to appreciate the simple things. I've just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.

I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

I got ham but I'm not a Hamster