You're mucking about on the guitar and you come up with a nice little thing. You play it and play it, on and on for half an hour. "I've written a nice little thing!" you say to yourself. You hum it in the shower. It's then you realise that the nice little thing you wrote is... Dancing Queen.

UPDATE: Mitch Starc wickets taken in the 1st over of a Test innings Ball #1 - 4 Ball #2 - 4 Ball #3 - 2 Ball #4 - 3 Ball #5 - 5 Ball #6 - 9 Total - 27 #AUSvENG

Imagine opening to Starc. Opening is tough enough but having an all time best first over opening bowler like his is scarier than The Exorcist.

I don’t like podcasts’ push to video. For me, podcasts are an audio thing, downloadable radio, and that’s where they should stay. Good piece by one of the world’s best music podcasters, Kirk Hamilton. www.kirksnotes.com/p/podcasts-f...

If you have good headphones, or even if you don’t, have a listen to this loud. Two orchestras and two choirs going hard at it, doing all sorts of things. It’s sublime. Goes for hours but the first track will melt you. classical.music.apple.com/au/album/160...

This year’s most ridiculous politician post and it’s still only early January. And it involves SPOOKY HOLES. www.instagram.com/reel/DTJYgIn...

Truly the most destructive batter in world cricket. #Ashes 🏏

Big opportunity here for Travis Head to bat large enough to deny Weatherald a second innings and end a second Australian opening career this series. #Ashes 🏏

Usman Khawaja’s retirement has really flushed the Facebook racists out into the open.

We should move beyond calling these people respectable.

Tech CEO wants people to start to think differently about his and his mates’ job killing theft AI toys which just makes people start to think differently about downloading pirated software.

At Wilson’s Prom. Saw a wombat fart last night. It went “fftfftfftfftfft!” Amazing, once in a lifetime experience.

Great career. Even greater person. We need more sports and community heroes like him. www.cricket.com.au/news/4426567

A mentor of mine died just before Christmas. Far more than that, too, was Chris Wallace-Crabbe. I've been thinking about it all, in the way that the end of a year brings on. Happy 2026. www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...

Might do one of those post a book a week things in 2026 but with books I couldn’t be arsed to read.

Once again Nigel Farage has been denied a knighthood. Still eligible for a white hood.

We all work, and we know how decisions get made in a workplace. Cast you mind back to a big work decision with a bit hanging on it. Okay. Now, how was the MCG pitch the error of just one worker? #ashes2025

So true. And some of the big podcasts out there, especially American, are so poorly made. Just a waste of the listener’s time.

92k at the game today. 80k people tomorrow stuck with going to the Boxing Day sales at Chadstone or some shit.

Snicking out on the drive on a Boxing Day morning. It’s up there for Christmas traditions with your first post Christmas day lunch 💩.

Huge Christmas Day cooking tip: Do not use ham or turkey recipes made up by your AI things! Use something written by a person, preferably in a book. Because today is not the day to find out that AI gets things wrong all the time!!!

You asked for it so here it is. The gingerbread house press release I wrote while working for a government authority. Not the last NW for the year. You'll get one - another rerun - on Boxing Day for the Boxing Day test. Seasonings greetings. Link under the mistletoe (a reply to this post)

Day 13 of the social media ban and the kids are alright.

Colonel Sanders and General Waste are at war against our planet.

Hi, I’m an American and I'm new to cricket*. What's with the big Ws on the Australian's cricket shirts? Does it stand for WINNER? And why don't the English have Ls on their cricket shirts? * I'm not really. Just a cynical move to get my stats up.

Day 12 of social media and Australia's children are hassling their parents for being on their screens too much.

We need a spinner for Boxing Day. There’s this guy called Glenn Maxwell they should think about.

Day eleven of the social media ban and Aussie kids have taken a day off from rioting in supermarkets.

Day ten of the social media ban and school’s out for summer (not forever).

I can’t understand umpires call no matter how many times it’s explained to me. It’s more baffling than how short selling works. Don't explain try to explain it to me or I'll black out.

Great ball, Starc. It’s a dangerous time to be a wall in the England rooms right now.

These umpires are so unsure of themselves that they need google maps to find their arses.

Day eight of social media ban and kids everywhere still not taking their dogs for a walk.

Day seven of the social media ban and most of Australia's children have taught themselves to juggle.

Day six of the social media ban and it's just as well that Australia's children aren't allowed on Facebook today.

Day five of the social media ban and I’ve never seen so many children hitchhiking on country roads.

Day four of the social media ban and kids all around Australia are building an ark.

Day three of the social media ban and kids are quieting outside all of Australia’s libraries to get in on the latest Dog Man drop.

Today’s NW is about making memories, school sports and the need for a new kind of hero. And for some unexplained reason there’s a lot of Shirl’s Neighbourhood clips in it. glennpeters.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

25 'MOST BLUESKY' POSTS OF 2025 Here's my selection of the 25 Bluesky posts that most impressed me this year. They're quite varied, but doesn't that reflect the thriving, harmonious site this really is? Yes. It does. They've been anonymised anyway, who cares?

Day two of the kids social media ban and look out and you can see puffs of smoke coming from so many houses. Smoke signals? No. It's just kids getting blazed on bucket bongs... alone.

Day one of the social media ban and the TAB around the corner is full of kids.

True story.

The exact moment Steve Smith champs Jofra Archer.

The exact moment Steve Smith champs Jofra Archer.

I want to see snicko at the time Stevie champs Archer.

Unbelievable keeping.

The morally superior poms not walking when they middle it.

Walk, you farken cheat.

Change the umpire.