The book world is literally ablaze with astonishment today on reading the news that notorious agoraphile and mucky-pup Bear Grylls has stepped in to fill the bird-mocking void left by Harper Lee more than fifty-five years ago. [read...]
Specifically he hopes to stamp out illicit meat broiling, parallel bars and ‘the kind of cross-examination that only occurs in US cop shows’. [read...]
The new ‘fearless tough guy’ approach by TV bushcraft expert Ray Mears in ITV’s new Close Encounters series is fooling ‘absolutely nobody’, an online opinion poll has suggested. Mears, who was offered the new series on the basis that he doesn’t wear tight Cub Scout shorts, [read...]
The book contains favourites like ‘Freshly Squeezed Shit Drippings’ and ‘A Lizard’, and includes no nonsense instructions such as, ‘First, find some shit; fresh is best’ and ‘Grab it, grab it before it gets away’. [read...]
With more girls than boys joining the Scouts in the last year, the Scout Association says that the odds of a boy being interfered with by a member of the opposite sex rather than a middle-aged scoutmaster are improving significantly. [read...]
