The Plastic Mancunian

I almost called this post “Hypnotism Is Rubbish” . Almost! Many years ago I saw a hypnotist live at a Butlins Holiday Camp in Mi...

The Plastic Mancunian blog is now five years old.  I wrote my first post way back in March 2008 and it seems like only yesterday. ...

“Dave, we need you to go to Moscow.” I swallowed hard. “Moscow? Can somebody else go?” “Yes – A can go with you.” “That’s no...

A few years ago, I was on a long haul flight to Hong Kong and watched a movie called Pay It Forward starring Haley Joel Osment (the kid...

So here I am in Muscat, Oman and I am going to talk about two of my favourite topics:  Health and Safety and toilets. I can hear ...

“Welcome to Bath,” said the slightly strange landlord of the little B & B we were going to stay in. Except he said Barth instead ...

Let me take you back to 1981. I was in my final year at school and A-Levels were approaching like a speeding train. I had mad hair, so...