A Fresh Start to the Day

Added on 16 March 2010

Mock the Week superstar Russell Howard bases much of his comedy on the fact that we're all too miserable, and that life is made up of a million small things that we ought to take pleasure in, but which generally we take for granted or allow to pass us by. For example, he mentions the small pleasure ...

Sunday Morning in Little Britain and Why We Should All Live Abroad

Added on 15 March 2010

We were in the market leading supermarket yesterday morning. Every day I go into a shop and look at the newspaper headlines. I never buy a paper, just want to see what's on the front pages, mostly so I can get annoyed about the things that the papers think we're interested in, and annoyed by the fac...

The Bookseller II

Added on 12 March 2010

The Bookseller arrives through the door this lunchtime. The Bookseller, in true fiscally-prudent fashion, sells its entire front page to advertising. Today's front page is devoted to a book which the quote from someone at Waterstone's describes as "the most astonishing novel of the decade...&qu...

The Bookseller

Added on 04 March 2010

One of the headlines in today's on-line edition of the Bookseller: Stop Press: Frank Blair Memoirs Out In September. You read that and you think, who in the name of God is Frank Blair, and why is someone publishing his memoir? Then you realise that frank is an adjective rather than someone's name, ...

Vasectomy Day

Added on 25 February 2010

Last week The Parent Currently Known As Mum (TPCKAM), One of Two (aged 11) and Two of Two (aged 9) were in the Master Bedroom. Two of Two inadvertently came across a condom stash and the following conversation ensued: Two of Two: What are these for? TPCKAM: They’re for birth control, so we don...