Category: Humour
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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…
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Ten years ago today I wrote my first proclamation on this blog. Well, I sort of did anyway. I certainly published the first post on…
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I started 2025 with some fairly ambitious plans for my blog. Not only was I planning to hit the fairly achievable target of at least…
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The bells have tolled, the ball has dropped and in various countries, around the world, people have eaten grapes, carried suitcases a short distance or…
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And so ends 2024. And what a year it has been. A quick perusal of various news sites suggests quite a lot of stuff has…
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There are no chestnuts roasting on an open fire. That seems like a ridiculously unnecessary hazard in a small terraced house in Reading. There are…
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And so this is Christmas. Well Christmas Eve anyway. Which means that for another year my Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) films must draw to a…
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is, to date, the only sequel to the 1990 original that I’ve seen. I may, as a result…
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2020’s Fatman is an interesting concept that doesn’t necessarily deliver on it’s initial promise. You probably get as much out of watching the trailer as…
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The third movie to make this year’s advent calendar that was released this year is Red One. Promising to be the first entry in an…
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And so to the second of three movies to make the cut for my 2024 advent calendar that were actually released in 2024. Dear Santa…
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I’ve been doing this annual festive film countdown for a fair few years now, and so committed have I become to making sure I have…
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Released in the year I started doing this annual festive nonsense, 2017’s Anna and the Apocalypse has cruelly missed out on prior inclusion due to…
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2015’s Joy reunites director David O’Russell with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, following on from their collaborations on Silver Linings Playbook and…
James Proclaims! 