The Dog’s Balls
Some time ago we bought LarryBStanding a toy – it was on offer for about a tenner at a pet store that’s no longer there, and it was a kind of football-thing with rope tassles attached to both sides through some fabric loops. We figured he’d like it given his predilection for swinging any kind…
The sort of really important thoughts that take place round here
The other night whilst washing baby bottles (because this is what I do now) a phrase popped into my head that I don’t think’s ever been in there before at my behest: “chief cook & bottle washer”. Hardly a proposition from Wittgenstein, I realise – I was LITERALLY washing bottles as it came in there….
It’s Not A Runner Bean
Not so much a series of short stories, as a collection of recollections between 1 and 4 pages long – from the author the then-slightly-successful South London comedian, Mark Steel. In the nearly 30 years since the book’s publication he’s continued ploughing his comedic furrow but stayed true enough to his roots that these stories…