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Paul Fulford

Richer but not wealthier

IT WAS always a long-shot since the majority my forebears seem to have left nothing but debt, deceit and illegitimate children.Read

Paul Fulford

Hen that laid a rotten egg

IT IS an inexplicable truth about hen parties that the more sexually provocative the outfit, the more repulsive the wearer.Read

Restaurant Review: The White Swan, Harborne Road, Edgbaston B15 3TT. 0121 454 2359.

AS ONE who devotes much of his time to eating – and the rest to running to shed the weight thus put on – there aren’t many ingredients that are unfamiliar.Read

Paul Fulford

The end of a public affair

AS WITH all relationships, it started well. The faults became apparent only later.Read

Paul Fulford

Celebrate our friendly city

SHE cast an expert eye over the fish, looking intently for telltale signs of freshness.Read

Restaurant Review: Blue Ginger, 22 Poplar Road, Kings Heath B14 7AD. 0121 444 0999.

IT’S a pitiful sort of restaurant critic who can’t recognise a carrot. The sort of restaurant critic, in fact, who ought to be skewered by such a vegetable.Read

Paul Fulford

An early trip towards ruin

HERE’S one of life’s incontrovertible but inexplicable truths.Read

Restaurant Review: Thai Edge, 7 Oozells square, Brindleyplace b1 2hl. 0121 643 3993.

THAI food wouldn’t rank in my top five of favourite cuisines.Read

Paul Fulford

Travels with Rab McVomit and a Smurf

AS RAIL journeys go, it wouldn’t have ranked among the most pleasant.Read

Restaurant Spy: Handmade Burger Co. The Water’s Edge, Brindleyplace B1 2JB. 0121 665 6542.

SIMPLE things can have their own appeal. Just think of Benny in Crossroads. Or David Beckham.Read

Paul Fulford

Encountering awkwardness

ON BORDEAUX railway station, on a side platform unshielded from the fierce midday sun, two people chatted awkwardly.Read

Restaurant Review: Asha, Newhall Street, Birmingham, 0121 200 2767

THERE are restaurants where you are fed and there are restaurants where you are cossetted.Read

Restaurant Review: Bella Venezia, 54 High Street, Kings Heath, B14 7JZ

THERE are those, I know, who go all dewy-eyed at the very mention of baby moo-moos, dismissing those who eat veal as savages.Read

Paul Fulford

Let's have a ban on bores

AMONG the miseries and trials that are propelled our way by the vicious harpies of fate, it was, perhaps, not among the worst.Read

Restuarant Review: Woktastic, Pardise forum, Paradise Place, B3 3HJ. 0121 236 3130.

TWO years ago, in the company of a friend who knows a thing or two about Japanese food, I thoroughly enjoyed a meal at this informal, funky place.Read

Paul Fulford

Golf's a game for boobies

ON ONE Saturday night when boredom had set in – mostly because I’d refrained for once from heavy drinking – I thought I’d chanced upon a very niche and rather strange adult television channel as I flicked the remote control box aimlessly.Read

Restaurant Review: Mint Cuisine, Yew Tree Retail Park, Stoney Lane, B25 8UX. Tel: 0121 789 8908

IT’S not in the prettiest of locations, tucked away in a modern retail park near a supermarket and fast food joint.Read

Paul Fulford

A poignant reminder of mortality

THEY were friends as well as colleagues of mine – journalists with whom I’d share a lunchtime pint that would sometimes stretch into a session lasting all afternoon and into the night.Read

Restaurant Review: Ha Ha Bar and Grill, Wharfside Street, The Mailbox, Birmingham B1 1RN. Tel: 0121 632 1250

DESPITE the horrors that loon pants and garish velvet jackets visited upon the world, I’ve rather a soft spot for the 1970s.Read