The Towering Inferno – an investigation into the Berlaymont fire

As eurocrats scuttled away from the flames, apocalyptic preachers roamed around Schuman quoting the more excitable passages from the Book of Revelations but the emergency services
were feeling the pressure, as one senior policeman said, off the record, “We’ve got to hush this up, there’s a lot at stake”. Despite press releases trying to minimise the [...]

A Freudian Slip

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?’” – Sigmund Freud Can our man help, maybe? Hmmm…
Well, I think it’s safe to say that women don’t really want a [...]

Letter from Santa

Dear Berlaymonster,

The year started badly, thanks to global warming. We lost several workshops when the ice sheet melted and they drifted off – checked ocean current charts, and they’re due in the Hudson
Bay in 2014. Must put a reminder in my Google calendar about that. Everything is now wet underfoot and I was getting grief [...]