Afraid of Rejection / Old Reds / Soup Reviews 18 August 2015 Alarm bells start ringing when I see taglines like 'Great For Cooking'. To me that reads as 'Not So Great For Eating'. Like a horrible wine…
A Round Up 21 July 2015 I can only imagine how a child in the 60s felt in the era of the bomb - Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, all that. Destruction like a…
A Guide To... 22 June 2015 Twelve consecutive written guides came to an emotional conclusion in last month’s edition of Now Then with The Cool Beans Guide to…
A Guide To Making A TV Show 19 May 2015 It’s officially one year since I was called up to Now Then HQ, offered the job of Chief Column Person and handed a golden typewriter to…
Guide To Passing Your Driving Test 25 March 2015 Much like taking your first steps as a child, getting your first job that pays half the minimum wage and attending your first swingers’…
A Guide To Living On The Cheap 20 February 2015 Life is hard. You go to school in order to get a job in order to pay the bills in order to provide a shelter for your offspring in order to…
Guide To Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions 26 December 2014 New year. New you. New me. New look? New Statesmen? New Zealand? New York, New York! With the annual arbitrary changing of the number which…
A Guide to the Gym 23 November 2014 Wobbly bits. They make me sick. I just threw up in my mouth thinking about them. In fact I’m so disgusted by wobbly bits that I recently…
A Guide to Vinyl 21 October 2014 MP3. MP4. C3PO. UB40. I’ve never really understood all these music file acronyms. For me it’s always been about the wax. Now I know what…
A Guide to Life Drawing 22 September 2014 1. Being disrobed in a room full of strangers can be traumatic. Casting your mind back to a particularly nice holiday, beloved pet or…