THE Astor’s sprawling Cliveden House on 150ha on the banks of the River Thames. David Ellis FORTY NINE years ago this month British socialites, the 2nd Viscount and Lady Astor invited some friends to their stately Cliveden House on the banks of the Thames just outside London, for a summer’s weekend of partying, tennis, croquet, […]
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says for the first time, members of the ten years old Lake Eyre Yacht Club finally have the opportunity to go sailing – because never before since the Club was formed on April Fool’s Day 2000 have […]
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says for the first time, members of the ten years old Lake Eyre Yacht Club finally have the opportunity to go sailing – because never before since the Club was formed on April Fool’s Day 2000 have […]
david ellis SHE’s the world’s most famous super-nanny, a no-nonsense figure who floats around under an umbrella, resolving the seemingly insurmountable with little more than a spoonful of sugar. And come next month she will have been enthralling us for exactly a century, a milestone we can reasonably presume would suggest that she was – […]
david ellis SHE’s the world’s most famous super-nanny, a no-nonsense figure who floats around under an umbrella, resolving the seemingly insurmountable with little more than a spoonful of sugar. And come next month she will have been enthralling us for exactly a century, a milestone we can reasonably presume would suggest that she was – […]
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says that a Sydney café touted as having this month created the world’s largest hamburger, may not have the record in the bag (or the box) after all… The husband and wife team at the café, in […]
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says that a Sydney café touted as having this month created the world’s largest hamburger, may not have the record in the bag (or the box) after all… The husband and wife team at the café, in […]
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says that a Sydney café touted as having this month created the world’s largest hamburger, may not have the record in the bag (or the box) after all… The husband and wife team at the café, in […]
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis warns: don’t tell Mr Rudd, but New Zealand has found a cheap and easy way of detaining a record number of prisoners it can’t fit into its over-crowded gaols. Its building inexpensive, transportable prisons out of old […]
Image: Death at a Funeral (c) Parabolic Pictures Inc. STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says a man in New Zealand has had a stop put to several months of free lunches. From March until a couple of weeks ago the man dined […]