Hysterically Stressful Shropshire
“If you’ve got a lot on your mind, go for a walk,” is oft-given advice in the event that a ‘steadying cup of tea’ fails to do the trick....
top of page
The Sadventures
Search
Person Irresponsible
- Feb 1
- 5 min
No Sex Please, We’re Herefordshire
Herefordshire is the filthiest county I have visited thus far, not that this is the fault of Herefordians, some of whom claim that...
18 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Jan 31
- 4 min
The county of deliquesced fish
Precisely two hundred years after William Perrins and James Perrins dissolved their business partnership freeing the former to enter into...
13 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Jan 24
- 5 min
The county of Ikea
When asked why she refused to move, Sister Dora replied, “I am a woman, not a piece of furniture!” These days the immovable one can be...
9 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Jan 20
- 9 min
Warmongering in Warwick
Looking like a sperm whale vomiting out Gloucestershire, the county of Warwickshire sounds like England’s most bellicose region. Wick, in...
10 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Jan 12
- 8 min
Oxymoronic Oxfordshire
At first glance, Oxfordshire is a county of rogues and miscreants, although it might be more accurate to claim the county is nothing but...
26 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Jan 1
- 5 min
The Swamps of Somerset
Britain is a nation preoccupied with personal ablutions. At least one study claims that the average Brit has five showers and three baths...
15 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
Denouncing in Devon
Hag used to be such a positive word, derived from those thought ‘holy’ and applied to wise women who healed, nursed and delivered...
11 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Dec 10, 2022
- 11 min
The Contradiction that is Cornwall.
The hand of England grasping out into the Atlantic ocean is better known as Cornwall, a county synonymous with long golden coastlines,...
8 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Dec 1, 2022
- 7 min
The Yle of Wihtwara
Sitting like a sharp pebble under the butt of England, the Isle of Wight is, for the most part, a lump of white chalk roamed by cows and...
13 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Nov 12, 2022
- 5 min
Gloucestershire is going down the toilet...
My quest remains a simple one: to determine exactly what is the source of Britain’s lavatorial demise. With ironic timing, I arrived in...
19 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Nov 1, 2022
- 6 min
The game-changing county of Bristol.
The only thing I knew about Bristol, prior to my visit to Horfield, was that it was famous for devising the globally-recognised “Bristol...
9 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Oct 11, 2022
- 12 min
Going round in Circles in a Wilting County
As the circle of the seasons drops down into autumn, and wilting leaves are shed from trees causing, one presumes, all manner of train...
19 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Sep 20, 2022
- 7 min
A rummage in the undercarriage of Hampshire
I thought it useful for one to learn a little about the historic significance of Hampshire before I set off, particularly given its...
11 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Sep 15, 2022
- 5 min
The Royal County of Berks
The county of Berks. Sounding like a retirement destination for your local village idiot, Berkshire is a long slither of a county which...
11 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Sep 8, 2022
- 3 min
Slanderous Surrey
A dork is a socially inept, contemptible individual so assumably if one is behaving in a socially unacceptable, contemptible manner one...
11 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Aug 29, 2022
- 4 min
Don't be a Kent...
Kent should be a euphemism for scatterbrained because I have never gone to so many places and completely passed them by absentmindedly...
24 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Aug 20, 2022
- 3 min
The sex-obsessed southerners...
When the Anglo-Saxons gallivanted into what is now known as the Kingdom of England, they brought with them the rudiments of modern-day...
51 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Aug 18, 2022
- 3 min
When the Wench Clenched.
The typical English summer arrived shortly after eight o’clock in the morning - a dribble here, and a plop there: the early signs of a...
18 views0 comments
Person Irresponsible
- Aug 12, 2022
- 3 min
Gone Dogging...
I thought I’d ease up a bit on my search for Britain’s toilet, and have a little dalliance around the edges of #Dorset and #Somerset. The...
37 views0 comments
bottom of page