Of all the Hallmark Holidays, St Valentine’s Day must be the most despicable. What started out as a festival to celebrate love has become, like every other special day, a… Read more You can’t ask me that: Do we really need to celebrate Valentine’s Day? →
Is there anything more annoying than an unsolicited request for feedback? These days, feedback fever infects just about every aspect of life. It’s not just at work that we’re expected… Read more Dear corporations, please stop asking me to rate you on your service →
Becoming a parent involves a few basic responsibilities like feeding and clothing the child in your care and keeping their tiny fingers from the dog’s mouth or the gas fire.… Read more You can’t ask me that: What’s your name? →
Happy new year! How is 2019 treating you so far? Well, I hope. Did you make any new year’s resolutions? More to the point, are you keeping them? “Don’t ask,”… Read more You can’t ask me that: how are the new year’s resolutions going? →
What do you want for Christmas? That’s a lovely question to be asked, isn’t it? Well, sometimes. If the person asking is a dashing billionaire who is so into the… Read more Why you’ll never get an honest answer when you ask what someone wants for Christmas →
What are you having for Christmas dinner? Turkey? Beef? Nut roast? Yorkshire pudding with your chicken*? Forget the meat/not meat. If there’s one thing guaranteed to divide the nation on… Read more You can’t ask me that: Do you want sprouts? →
Of all the senses, the sense of smell is perhaps the most underrated. In art and literature, sight and sound reign supreme. Touch is often invoked in a romantic sense.… Read more You can’t ask me that: should ‘do I smell?’ be a question we ask more often? →
What’s your type? I mean, of course, what kind of person would you like to go to bed with? Now we’re no longer in the 1970s, it’s a question guaranteed… Read more You can’t ask me that: Why it might be outdated to ask ‘what’s your type?’ →