My first car, in about 1970 cost me £55  it was an ancient clapped out Vauxhall Velux . The bodywork was mostly rust.  I spent a fortune and endless hours patching it up with glass fibre!  A couple of years later when it eventually died I bought a gold colour Ford Granada - it was [...]

Is it only me that gets intensely irritated by robots answering telephones? The other day I had to phone an insurance company about my car insurance. Simple, you might think. Not so! The phone was answered by a female robot – very realistic sounding - but not human. “So I can direct you to the [...]

I have noticed the English language changing over the years – and not always for the better I think! Sometimes I hear things I just don’t understand! Why do some people slip the word ‘like’ between every few words? The other day I heard a girl on the Radio say –“I wasn’t like wow I [...]