Monthly Archives: May 2008

Eurovision live blog: 2008

By Matt Hill | Published: May 24, 2008
I remember my first Eurovision song contest party; I was nine or thereabouts. As it goes I’m fairly sure it was the first time – mothers aside – that I saw another woman’s nipple. She’d quaffed far too much and had flopped on to the settee with it all hanging out. I didn’t tell anybody. So [...]
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On sorries and apologies

By Matt Hill | Published: May 20, 2008
I must’ve said sorry more times than I’ve eaten bananas, I decided. Just the other day I explained earnestly to a friend that I’d even apologise to somebody who’d just shot me for getting in the way of their bullets. Recently I apologised in retrospect, via Facebook, for calling a boy a ‘panface’ at school – [...]
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Dad’s Cobra kit-car

By Matt Hill | Published: May 14, 2008
Funeral’s good but it’s not the one. It’s like one, though. I mean we’ve all been standing outside and feeling sick and something has more-or-less died. What it is really is that my Dad’s been building a kitcar for over twenty years — and now he’s had to sell it on account of he can’t afford [...]
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