User avatar Four Word Reviews: 3 Words

Are you a fan of Our Cheryl? I have to admit I didn’t know much about her before 3 Words, her debut solo album from 2009, plopped onto my doormat in a padded envelope. Cheryl Cole (previously Cheryl Tweedy, now Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, future changes of surname TBC) started out in Girls Aloud, a band […]

| March 25th, 2020 | Leave a comment | Categories: Four Word Reviews, Not very good, Tuneless

User avatar Jolly Good: free gingerbread

In these trying times, we’re all hearing more than enough that worries, frightens or discombobulates us. To ease your worries, calm your nerves and recombobulate your addled mind, I’ve decided to make a regular habit of posting good news.

Here’s the first hit of happy headlines. Strap in.

I was in Greggs this morning […]

| March 19th, 2020 | 2 Comments | Categories: Delicious, Jolly Good

User avatar Litter

Yes. I see. I see what you did.

You read it, and an idea formed in your head, and you thought it would be funny.

Well, it’s not funny.

OK, it is funny. But you still shouldn’t do it.

[…]

| March 15th, 2020 | 2 Comments | Categories: Gardens and landscaping, Not very good, Petty crime

User avatar The outer limits of burger

Big news in the world of culinary foods! Doctor Burger, senior lecturer in Burgerology at the University of Hamburg, has just published the results of a major new study into the phenomenon of burgertude, sometimes known as the “essence of burger”. His work has helped to map the outer limits of burgerosity.

Dr. Burger […]

| March 7th, 2020 | 4 Comments | Categories: Delicious, Doctor Burger, Science

User avatar Flexible workspace

We’re all on the lookout for a flexible workspace these days. Somewhere you can just sit down, maybe order a latte, open your laptop and, I don’t know, edit a podcast or grow a hipster beard or something.

The other day, while exploring an area I hadn’t visited before down in the sub-basement of […]

| February 27th, 2020 | 14 Comments | Categories: Architecture, Business, Pipes, Safety

User avatar Ditching the snifters

As close friends of mine, you’ll know I have been battling a devastating addiction for many years now. A horrible, destructive dependency on snifters, which has alienated my family, cost me my livelihood and brought me to the very brink of financial insolvency.

The good news is that I’m making progress on kicking this […]

| February 22nd, 2020 | 15 Comments | Categories: Grim, Medical, Nose-compatible, Sexy

User avatar Mrs Miggins is up to no good

Back in April, we learned that Mrs Miggins was redeveloping the heart of her enormous property empire. 75 Farringdon Road, the fine property where either Ian or I fell head over heels in love with the lucrative old crone, had the builders in.

I’ve been back to see what she’s done with the place, […]

| February 12th, 2020 | 16 Comments | Categories: Abodes, Conspiracy/Not a Conspiracy, Otters, Petty crime, Pure Evil, Sagging/drooping, Unjustifiable violence

User avatar Four Word Reviews: Tenor at the Movies

I cannot explain how Four Word Reviews work. The CDs just arrive, I don’t choose them, and they arrive by their own mysterious schedule. Right now I have a lot of them stacked up. Being in a position where I had a lot to choose from, I took a punt on Jonathan Ansell’s Tenor […]

| February 2nd, 2020 | 18 Comments | Categories: Foreign, Four Word Reviews, Tuneful
 
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