Hah, that's great!

My brother and I used to play Monopoly continually as children. Anticipating the banking crisis by several decades, we would borrow huge sums from the bank to spend on sub-prime mortgages. The sums were so large that we used the spare title deed card as a promissory note for a …

My cousin is training to be a hairdresser and I went along to the salon where he's working and he gave me a new hair style for practice. John Self, the protagonist of Martin Amis's Money called it 'having a rug-rethink'. Self is the ultimate consumer. At the time it …

Actually the haywire Smile episode wasn't as bad as I made out. They'd previously sent me a new card in the post and I just hadn't opened the envelope yet. I activated the new card and it worked fine. Thanks Smile!

I really like Paul Giamatti, I'd like to see Cold Souls. Great reviews of interesting films, thanks!

I was at Bath Farmers' Market and needed some cash to buy a tarte au citron. The Sainsbury's cash machine said, 'the card issuer has not authorized payment'. I rang my bank, Smile, and they said, 'the system has gone haywire! In the last hour and a half it started …

Cold Souls did indeed remind me of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Paul Giamatti makes anything watchable. He reminds me of Woody Allen. Brainy, introverted and whiny. Cold Souls is a gentle, enjoyable comedy.

Un Prophete is a gripping story of a man who enters prison as the lowest …

Doing maths is exciting, maths textbooks are boring, reading about the exploits of mathematicians is interesting. So what I enjoyed most about In Code was the human story of Sarah Flannery rather than the maths itself.

Flannery now works at TirNua.

Yes brilliant! You did replace the battery, and not just reinstall the old one??

*comfort*