Category: Humour
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Last year, 1995’s Bad Boys made the cut for my annual countdown for the most dubious of reasons and it is a similarly questionable rationale…
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2007’s I Am Legend is, in many ways, a fairly run-of-the mill post-apocalyptic flic. It’s perfectly acceptable fare and there are worse ways to spend…
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I’ve enjoyed all of Kenneth Branagh’s outings as Hercule Poirot. It would be hard to argue a case for Branagh being the definitive version of…
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When 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels hit cinemas, it genuinely felt like the arrival of the UK’s answer to Quentin Tarantino. With the…
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2016’s The Secret Life of Pets is a largely derivative computer-animated movie that might struggle to stand out from the slew of computer-animated movies that…
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Once again the festive season is upon us and so once again I find myself strangely obliged to produce 24 posts about movies which may…
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As I write this, I find myself running the risk of not completing the feat of 30 consecutive daily posts throughout November. I am currently…
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November virusSlightly worse than other coldsBecause November
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A decade ago, in the first November of this blog’s existence, I wrote a post on the day of Thanksgiving to explain that I didn’t…
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PhotocopierReliably deliversDaily paper jam
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Very bad morningOnly one real solutionA bacon sandwich
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Health advice asideSugar’s temporary highGets me through most days
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December is just over a week away and while the beginning of the twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar is not, in and of itself,…
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The anti-woke brigadeAre angry that a major UK supermarket chainHas cancelled ChristmasBy capitulating to the woke brigadeAnd ‘re-branding’ an artificial Christmas treeAs an ‘Evergreen Tree’And…
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Today is FridayBut it is not Black FridayThat is next FridayBut Black Friday Week is hereSo is today Grey Friday?
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Emails in inboxAlways generate more workUnless left unread
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Post-it notes are greatFor doodling on while busyProcrastinating
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On Saturday, my eldest daughter, Little Proclaims, and I took part in a martial arts tournament. I’ve had an on and off relationship with various…
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Lest we all forgetThe true meaning of ChristmasIs availableTo buy instore and onlineFor the whole of November
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Saturdays with kidsA little less assuasiveThan a box of frogs
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There is more to lifeThan a cold Friday night beerBut not on Friday
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There’s so much to doAnd lots of time to do itBut I don’t want to
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The daily commuteA perfect time to reflectOn daily commutes
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Alcohol-free beerHas all of the caloriesAnd none of the fun
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ProcrastinationDelayed gratificationWithout the delay
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I respect cyclistsAnd their right to use all roadsNot on my commute
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My children assertA sentence is less funnyWithout the word poo
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I first drank a mochaccino in the late 1990sIt genuinely blew my mindUntil then I had been contentWith a middle-of-the rangeInstant coffee at homeBold Glend…
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Remember, remember the 5th of November, for some reason. I can’t remember why. Something about guide forks? I don’t know what a guide fork is…
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I don’t wish to sound ungratefulMy weekends are never hatefulBut sometimes they can be quite dullThough busy and quite often full Straightforward as weekends can…
