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Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life IX: Making the News Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

  Things either happen or don’t happen. If they don’t happen, talking about them as happenings would be fiction. If they do happen, the question

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life VIII: How to Make Driving Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Life

Driving’s a funny old thing: some go wild for it, some are unmoved by it (metaphorically, at least), and some endure it with gritted teeth.

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life VII: How to Make the High Street Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Life

Man, as Aristotle had it, is a political animal, and naturally converges together – in villages, towns and cities. The urban high street, then, should

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life VI: How to Make Adverts Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Life

  ‘Ah, so you’re in advertising?’ These are words which Machell has found useful to deploy when beginning – and simultaneously ending – conversations. But

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life V: The Twelve Daves of Christmas

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Life

The Christmas season is upon us, a time to savour the goodwill – and also survive the godawful – among men. In the spirit of

Machell’s Guide to surviving modern life IV: Making the gym bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Life

The gym is a space consecrated to pain. But perhaps the most testing workout of all is the mental strain of handling other people’s irksome

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life III: Making the (Pretentious) Restaurant Bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

  Mercy me: the restaurant is too pretentious for words, but you’re determined to enjoy the evening. You won’t, of course, be indulging the worst

Machell’s Guide to Surviving Modern Life II: How to make conversation bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Life

We humans are social animals, and conversation is part of the fabric of daily life. So why can it sometimes be such grim going? Because

How to make public transport bearable

Octavius MachellOctavius Machell | Uncategorized

Any civilised person already obeys the three golden rules of public transport: don’t put bags on seats, don’t eat hot food, and (for the love

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