Trying to be less shit at London life. Also at cooking.
A giant chalk man carved into a west country hillside is living up to its legendary status as a figure of fertility by producing a baby boom in the surrounding area.
The Cerne Abbas Giant Photo: PASince Victorian times, the 180ft Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset has been said to cure childlessness and bless women with improved fertility.
Now the women in the surrounding towns and villages have the highest birth rates in the country.
Living in the Northern Hemisphere means my birthday has gone from being a cold, wintry affair to a blisteringly hot pain fest in the middle of summer.
And graveyards are more enjoyable in the winter, I feel.
But whatever… We were in Paris for my birthday and that’s now a summer activity. And the Père Lachaise cemetery was our one hat tip to touristy activity. (The main purpose of the minibreak was shopping. Also drinking.)
So we arrived on the Friday, which was my actual birthday, dropped our bags off and zipped straight over to the cemetery to say hi to Oscar Wilde.
In that respect, it wasn’t like I had planned to visit a graveyard on my birthday. I’m just too fat to be that emo.
Turning twenty nine is a bit weird.
From an actuarial standpoint, the number of days left in which…
