In Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks goes hitchhiking around Ireland with a fridge in tow on a drunken bet. Along the way, he meets some interesting people, including a phony king, a nun and more town drunks that you can count all the while becoming the talk of Ireland. I really enjoy...
I can't quite decide whether to give this book three or four stars. It's a nice enough book and Tony's writing style prompts me in the direction of four stars, but the lack of an interesting plot and the silly ending push me towards three. I loved 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' and 'One Hit Wonder...
Tony Hawks is a funny guy. After all, he is a comedian, and comedians tend to have to be funny. But in recent years, he’s progressed from being “funny ha-ha” to being possibly a little bit strange. It’s not his fault, I guess. He just can’t resist a challenge. So when he got drunk one night and w...
After formal introductions (well, as formal as they could be in this situation), I learned that I was in the company of Jason, a man beaming with excitement, in his early twenties who wasted no time in peppering me with questions. ‘What are you doing with that fridge anyways?’ ‘...
We believed we’d got our timing just about right as we arrived at precisely 11.30pm. “Try and look as young as you can,” I said to Brad as we approached the drab converted warehouse that now housed the club. “We’ll probably be the oldest ones here, barring the owner....
It was the kind of heat you expect when you alight from a plane in a far-off, exotic location; the kind of heat that hits you, as you walk onto the aircraft steps and cannot help but exclaim, ‘Wow!’ – such is the contrast to the dreary, cloudy mediocrity that you’d just left behind. Now we had it...