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Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life XVIII: How to Make Everything Else Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

Well, the catharsis is almost complete: your long-suffering friend Octavius has now said what needed saying on travelling, talking, table-waiting, training, typecasting, tat-touting, towning, touring,

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life XVII: Making the Wedding Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

Marriage, eh? Everyone’s doing it. Even you, sir – who for all I know may now be swiping listlessly at your screen as you wait

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life XVI: Making the stag do bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

On paper, it’s paradise: the chaps banding together for a last-gasp jolly before the marital knot is triple-tied. In practice, it’s a very different fish

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life XV: Making Pop(ular) Music Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Culture

Music was my first love, and it will be my last. Or it should be, were it not for all the dross that’s drowning out

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life XIV: Making the family bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

We had no say in the matter, we humans, about whether our parents should bear us or not. And many of us – with unspeakable

Machell’s Guide to surviving Modern Life XIII: Making Politics Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

‘Politics’ comes, of course, from the Greek for ‘many quirks’. But, after 2,500 years of linguistic inflation, a more accurate rendering may actually be ‘inestimable

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life XII: Making the Office Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Weekend

Libraries gave us power. Then work came and made us free. But some bright spark then suggested that we should all work cheek-by-jowl in the

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life XI: How to Make Social Media Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

Social media users are ubiquitous, but sociable media users are rare birds indeed. It seems that the greatest flaw in social media is that people

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life X: How to Make Football Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Weekend

The beautiful game, eh? Well, yes, perhaps once. But modern football has become a battle for the British viewer – a 95-minute challenge not to

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