Archive
Here is a list of all the articles on this website. A lot are weak and embarrassing – some of the oldest, weakest and most embarrassing have gone missing – but isn’t preserving stuff on the web vaguely noble? Perhaps one day I’ll restore all the old rubbish, and the warmly valued reader comments.
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November 2024
October 2024
- Week 293: oyster sauce
- Week 292: as if being from Birmingham wasn't bad enough
- Week 291: man's inhumanity to man
- Week 290
September 2024
- Week 289: tomatoes
- Week 288: pappy
- Week 287: apples
- Week 286: soup station
- Week 285: relaxed holiday demeanour
August 2024
- Week 284: dark mode again
- Week 283: so refined
- Week 282: the thinking man's plum
- Week 281: plastic Nigel bottles
July 2024
- Week 280: serenity now
- Week 279: :(
- Week 278: Smeets your requirements
- Week 277: streaming
- Week 276: kettle balls
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- Week 263: hotel charlie bravo
- Week 262
- Week 261: Rover
- Week 260: retaining band
- Week 259: Delta and the Bannermen
February 2024
- Week 258
- Week 257: bonus minutes
- Week 256: Caesar salad days
- Week 255
- Did Football Focus’s Garth Crooks really call The Last Dinner Party ‘fine young women making really exciting pop music’?
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
- Week 241: orange jigger
- Week 240: bottle of Flash
- Week 239
- Week 238: vain bother
- Week 237: too young to buy baba au rhum
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
- Week 219: no one wants to be the 27th Nigel
- Week 218: Bristol
- Week 217: invigorating
- Week 216: bees hate him
April 2023
- Week 215: standard deviation of heights
- Week 214
- Week 213: in the pocket of big tumble dryer
- Week 212: burnt and misshapen
- Week 211
March 2023
February 2023
- Week 206: no-chicken salad days
- Week 205: the hardest measure to measure
- Week 204: bumbling fool
- Week 203: smoked salmon
January 2023
- Week 202: two kinds of mop
- Week 201: wool
- Week 200: wrap
- Week 199: chunky and classic
- Week 198: glass spider
- 2022
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
- Week 189: decorative gourd season
- Week 188
- Week 187: recognising things
- Week 186: hegemony of fusilli
- Week 185: upper crust
September 2022
August 2022
- Week 180: locksmiths don’t want you to know this
- Week 179: lost village
- Week 178: crushing bore
- Week 177: claret coloured bump
July 2022
- Week 176: handle like eggs
- Week 175: where’s me jumper
- Week 174: fiddly-fart-arse
- Week 173: seat filler
- Week 172: sardine
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
- Week 45: bunglings
- Week 44: it’s Patrick, he took out life insurance
- Week 43: hostel goose
- Weeks 41 & 42
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
- Week notes: disappointing crab sandwich
- Week notes: shiny metal balls
- Week notes
- Week notes: 100 miles
April 2019
March 2019
January 2019
November 2018
October 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
April 2018
March 2018
- 11 responses to the New York Times headline ‘Bulletproof, Slow and Full of Wine: Kim Jong-un’s Mystery Train’
- Trousers II
- 🚽
- Cook Suck
- Aspirational trousers
February 2018
- ‘Can someone explain why BBC One is covered in CSS?’
- Is a robot DJ working for Morrisons the person with the best music taste in the country?