That's really encouraging, but if we're honest it'll probably take a bit more effort to achieve that goal

When actors look in the bathroom mirror, l guess they probably have flashbacks to scenes where they had to stare into a bathroom mirror and have a flashback

Quite impressed that Sainsbury's have found a metric to show the price per use of toilet roll

Is it deliberate that 'Tron: Ares' is such an easy anagram of 'Torn Arse'?

Feels like Ed Sheeran's giving the critics and wags an easy target with his plan to name a future album 'Fast Forward'...

If I'm honest with myself, qualifying as a pilot is probably the fastest way for me to get to turn left when l board a plane

"I've become a standard lamp by mistake"

This looks like the sizzle reel for a filmed version of The Lion King musical which explains why they went with a live-action remake of the cartoon

This must have happened for real - the only logical explanation why so many automated voicemail instructions include "when you have finished leaving your message, please hang up"

That image makes it look like they're doing a TV version of the 1970s game Mastermind

Social media posts, like many of us in our twenties, tend to date rather badly

Smooth and shiny and very malleable indeed, so l have no idea why they call them crisp packets.

My homeopath friend gave me hassle today about the fact l don't get in contact with them very often - and was weirdly unreceptive when l said it means the time we do spend together is more powerful and potent as a result

In Germany, shouldn't Kinder chocolate be sold under the brand name 'Children'?

l turned on Closed Captions on my TV out of daft curiosity, and as a result l've seen the word "[scoffs]" more times in the past few weeks than l have in the entirety of my life

Bit suspicious how we don't hear much from Derek Acorah these days, l'd say

A friend of mine claims to have LinkedIn connections with over 18,000 experienced (or aged) shoemakers and heel repairers, but l think that's a load of old cobblers

Frankly, it's been years now, and I think it's high time l was allowed to graduate to eating Grands Filous

Rewatching Game of Thrones, l do think the White Walkers would have been less scary if they'd been the White Washers

Slightly odd choice of cover for a film star's biography, but I'm looking forward to reading all the gossip from his time playing Starbuck and the Faceman

Lot of talk of carrot and stick as leadership types, I'm more 'the string'

I'll make sure I'm in the Whispering Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral today at 3pm, then

I like to think that Aliens is the tonally-different follow-up to Alien in the same way as Les Miserables is to Misery

When the marketing team don't like the item they're promoting and can't keep that feeling to themselves

In my day job in the bookshop, l never cease to be amazed how many students of the Classics shop-soil copies of the books, and are then surprised when we make them pay for the damage. But we have a simple rule: Euripedes? Eupayfordese.

Haven't posted recently as I've been busy directing (and also starring in) a new production of the musical Hair. Took on a bit too much really, and it's been so stressful l've been having recurring dreams about being onstage in front of a packed house with all my clothes on.

When someone tells you they've got your back, always good to make sure they don't mean it the way Brutus did.

Cliche suggests this is the kind of album title that grows on you with age

Sometimes when people apparently have a greater requirement than you for something, it's that they're better at expressing their selfishness without it looking blatantly venal - so, it always pays to ask: is their need truly greater than yours, or is it just that their greed is neater than yours?

Wait, what?

So happy to have a book featured in this wonderful round-up! Thank you @thecosymoose.bsky.social!

He is? Aw, that is so sweet

The Egyptian Book of the Dead stated a person's fate after death was determined using a set of scales - with their heart on one side, and a feather on the other. An updated version of this would probably be to calculate if a person took more photos of other people, or themselves, during their life.

I'm saving money this January by eating all the food at the back of the freezer, though it does reveal just how long some of it's been there - such as tonight's fish fingers, which were manufactured by Midshipman Birdseye

Without doubt, the two words l read most often, but understand the meaning of least, are 'vitreous china'

The irony of main character energy is that actual main characters are too busy driving plot events to stop and exhibit the appropriately show-off-y energy

The old problem that spellcheck doesn't notice when you've got the wrong word as long as you spell it correctly

I like to think Tolkien was addressing the horrors of social embarrassment by naming his antagonists Awks

Turns out it's entirely possible to get by without buying this season's 'must-have's or purchasing 'essential' oils

I guess the final step in Quantum Computing would be the ability to carry out calculations regardless of whether or not you actually own a Quantum Computer

Looks as if Scotland - like so many others - was given Lynx for Christmas

Strangely, the more l hold my phone in front of me, the more it follows me.

Would be more interesting if he became Canada's PM in the past though

Overheard yesterday: "She got engaged over Christmas - he's a bit older, so when he got down on one knee, she thought he was having a stroke"

The subject line in Evri update emails always sounds like the opening line of a ransom demand

Can't see the East London remake of One Tree Hill being a success

Until they sort out basic errors, I'd say no, it's not going to to

Thrilled to have a book on this fabulous list! Thank you @thecosymoose.bsky.social! 😊💛

Was wondering why people say "Thanks, Beta God" at Carol Services, but then l realised that a pilot or apprentice deity might be a notion to bridge the ideological gulf between believers and atheists

Do wonder if Taron Egerton didn't mention the possible wordplays of the film's title because he knew it would give reviewers loads of potential comments to make