Five ways to make pub crawls more interesting when you're on the more sober side of life

Super-galactic travelling friends, 

Since cutting way down on alcohol I've been out to pubs many times since. Most of the time it's just going for a couple then heading home, but a couple of times it's been mini pub crawls, where I've gone to three or four places over an evening.

While I may have a half pint at one of them if they have a particularly interesting looking beer, I'll stick to alcohol free drinks the rest of the time.

However, not drinking when you're going to lots of pubs can get boring, even when you're enjoying the company of those you're with, so here's some ways to spice up that night out when you don't want to drink but still want to have fun while out with mates or family.

Autumn bucket list 2026

Super-galactic travelling friends,

Autumn is on its way (or is already here if you go by meteorological autumn). It's one of my favourite times of year as it's often cooler without being freezing, orange and browns are back in style, and most importantly of all, it's Halloween time baby!

I always have so many plans for autumn, but then end up doing barely any of them, so I thought hey, if I post an autumn bucket list about things I want to do during autumn, I'm more likely to stick to them. And so, here my 2026 autumn bucket list.

Can you learn to love coriander?

Fellow super-galactic travellers,

We all have foods we're not a fan of, but may from time to time retry them on the off chance that maybe you were wrong, and liquorice is in fact a delicious treat that you've finally come to appreciate (spoiler, it will always taste terrible!)

Over the years I've learnt to appreciate lots of foods that I previously wasn't a fan of, and every time it opens the culinary world up just a little bit more for me. There are however, some things my palette still refuses to enjoy. Some of them are pretty easy to avoid, but there's one that's often hard to escape from...coriander.

Coriander (or cilantro) is very much one of those love it or hate it herbs, and for me it's always been on my hate list. Anytime I eat something with the scourge of a leaf hidden within it, my joy from that meal soon turns to sadness, and I have to hope after pulling it all out it hasn't imparted too much of its flavour onto the other ingredients around it, so I can somewhat enjoy the rest of my meal.

But you know what? I'm tired of coriander ruining my food!!! I want to eat a pho and not have to take out all the coriander! I want to enjoy a salsa at a restaurant that has hidden coriander in it rather than having to leave it on the side! I refuse to let coriander dictate what I can and can't eat any more!

The question is though, is it even possible to go from hating coriander, to liking it (or at least tolerating it)? I think it might be...

Why doesn't this flip phone exist?

Super-galactic travelling friends, 

While I love my current phone (Google pixel 6) I've had it for a while, and so the battery isn't what it used to be, and tech gets outdated fast, so I know at some point I'll have to replace it. The issue? The phone I want doesn't exist!

My favourite phone I've ever owned was a Sony Ericsson flip phone 20ish years ago, and while that phone wouldn't fit my current needs any more, I would like to own a flip phone once again.

While researching flip phones I've come across two type, the old fashioned kind, or the ones that are a full screen that can fold.

But the things is, I don't want either of those! The classic style flip phone is too old fashioned with its tiny top screen and physical buttons on the bottom, and the other style, well I've seen horror stories about the screens breaking making the phone useless, and for how pricey they are, that's a no from me...

So what is it I want? Well I decided to make a (very rough) mock up exactly what I'm looking for