Tee hee – I’m misleading the youth of today into coming to my blog. Aren’t I clever? Well, no, not really. I will of course be mentioning the hippy drug du choix but only in passing – the real weirdness lies further ahead.
LSD (the drug) was one of four things the Swiss have given the [...]

Another one you’ve probably heard of. Chutzpah is quite tricky to pronounce but here goes: ch-oot-spa. You need to imagine the ‘ch’ part spoken at the back of the throat, as if you were trying to clear a small flying insect that you’d inadvertantly inhaled. Or, if you are Dutch, Flemish or Welsh, it’ll be [...]