As part of the information service we like to provide here at the Dossing Times we are using this weeks Top 6 Friday to bring some worrying characteristics of small villages to your attention. It appears to be all about false pretences as these villages tend to prove picturesque, well maintained and ideally located. Our [...]

Chips, I would say are the universally adored food stuff. For those who go to the trouble of making them at home, Gordon Ramsay reliably informs me that chips should be first fried at a lower heat for 7 minutes and then just before serving quick fried at high heat for 3 minutes for that [...]

I’m gona put this out there - I think Jonathan Pryce was the last great Bond villain. Sophie Marceau was a wonder in ‘The World is Not Enough’ though there was no escaping how Robert Carlyle was wasted, I would rather eat glass than than watch the race switching pompousness of Toby Stephens in ‘Die [...]

So there are the obvious collection of unhinged characters in cinema, the fictional characters names that trip of the tongue such as Norman Bates and Patrick Bateman or the collection of RAVs (Russians, Arabs, Villains) that number out henchmen line ups and sinister plotters in most Bruce Willis movies or indeed the more elite deranged [...]

6. “Oh, no! It wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” (King Kong)
5. “Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished;
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” (Romeo and Juliet)

4. Let us now relieve the [...]

There is a wealth of reading on the topic of censorship, it enforcement and use runs in tandem with the historic development of every society on the planet, used to further political agendas, engender ways of thinking and wallpaper over past indiscretions. Where its limits and benefits rest is surely one of the great questions. [...]

I always think of an episode of ‘Animaniacs’ from a time I like to now term - back in the day (rather than put an actual date on it) – and a segment entitled ‘Good Idea, Bad Idea’. It went as such – Good Idea – Finding an Easter Egg on Easter Sunday, Bad Idea [...]

I’ve walked the halls of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York and though never meeting Governor Spitzer, there was never a shortage of suggestion, allegation and rumour about many of the elected representatives. Behaviour of such questionable standards lead to a ban on interns attending events where alcohol was served and a strict [...]

So our receptionist at work is currently encumbered with being the highlight of my day - straight down the line, blunt honesty and a sense of humour rare in creatures constructed on an abandonment of all limits of taste. Talking about some bit of work related rubbish the other day we lost our steam [...]

6. So lets kick off with the ‘why?’ - Leap years are needed so that the calendar is in alignment with the earth’s motion around the sun. It was the ancient Egyptians who first figured out that the solar year and the man-made calendar year didn’t always match up. It takes the Earth a little [...]