Two weeks ago I arrived back from my travels after a month-and-a-half away. Upon knocking at my own front door I was to be greeted by one of my house mates who looked yellow. His first words were not, ‘Welcome back!’ but more ‘Oh.. hi.. I’m going to hospital’. Naturally concerned I accompanied him where he was diagnosed with a ...

The blessing of having a few days off means that you are at liberty to catch up on all the things that you should have done at some earlier point. Another blessing is of course, once all your chores are done, you are free to do precious little with your time.. Thankfully for me this has happened to coincide with ...

(Disclaimer:  The FATwebsite had some unusual down-time through the earlier parts of this year, therefore this post was pushed further to the bottom of my to-do list, but I feel that it references an important day in this year’s history for not only Britain but also for the world.) The first day of April 2009 was the day in which ...

Cricket’s oldest rivalry has just got under way as the Mighty England face the expelled convicts from years passed.. Alot has been made in the build up of this 5-test series with the Aussies having smashed England the last time they played in Australia 5-0..  But with most of the Aussies’ best players retiring after that series and the new ...

The phone rang a month or so ago with Pat on the other end declaring that he was looking to book tickets for the traditional end of season rugby match between England and the Barbarians (the ‘Best of the Rest’ playing in English league). Having never been to Twickenham before I thought this would be an excellent notch on my ...

.. those are two words that I have thrown around for most of the week in an attempt to justify me being a bit touchy and on-edge. Currently, and I use this word very fittingly, I am juggling two features and a project that need to be done by my editorial dealine on Friday.. Although it is very much an ...

Here is how I imagine the conversation between Michael Bay and the studio-executive who greenlighted the ‘eagerly awaited’ sequel to the transformers movie went: Studio Exec: Michael, Transformers was a financial collosus, congratulations.. What other projects do you have in the pipeline? Bay: Well I have been thinking long and hard about this, what if we make another transformers movie? ...

Italy and New Zealand contested their first ever football match in a warm up for FIFA’s Confederations Cup, in South Africa yesterday. With the tournament, comprising of the winners of competitions held on each continent, set to kick off this weekend Italy decided to let the children and also rans out for a play against a full strength and oringinaly ...

After the inevitable admin errors my FATblog permit has been granted and I am ready to blog away til my fingers fall off, or my boss catches me.. probably the latter. That’s correct my last sentence remarked on the my current paymaster, and due to having one of those it is a fair assumption to make that I have found ...

i read this about a possible reason as to the death of Daniel Benoit… i would still rather not talk about my thoughts on the event. ““Is it possible that after Chris killed Nancy (for whatever reason), he felt Daniel wouldn’t be able to get the care and attention he required as a special needs child (who suffered from Fragile ...