Author Archives: Dr Pete
Life Coach
The Speakmans are two of about 700 registered life coaches practising in Britain today. They also happen to be a wild and eccentric couple who live in a vast 13th Century mansion in Rochdale. Their clients, who include footballers … Continue reading
Lim pics
The Olympic Games are here again and at The Open Wound we’ve been excited by the Freestyle Doubles Comedy Routine event. First introduced by Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Olympics and won that year by Americans Abbot and Costello … Continue reading
Knightmares
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, has saved a woman who was being attacked by a gang of young girls, one of whom was brandishing an iron bar. The woman called out for help to a passing cyclist, who turned out … Continue reading
Caged
In my attic there is an old tiger who has been imprisoned there since the day I met my wife. The three of us could not survive living together like Siegfried and Roy and so I keep him locked in … Continue reading
Science
Scientists led by Dr Ben Whalley, at the University o f Reading have used cells from the brain of a rat foetus to control a robot and help it to navigate around its enclosure. The Open Wound sent senior journalist, … Continue reading
In the eyes of God
Eighty four year old Nigerian, Mohammed Bello Abubakar has 86 wives. “I don’t go looking for them, they come to me,” said Mister Abubakar, “God did not say what the punishment should be for a man who has more than … Continue reading