Getting back into briefly writing about the things I read. This time, The City and the City. markstaylor.uk/books/2023/01/the-city-and-the-city-china-mieville

The Hey Duggee! toothbrushing song must have one of the flattest view timeline graphs ever.

The most annoying thing about the unending BBC News notifications about the royal family is that I can’t even reasonably claim it’s an inappropriate thing for the national broadcaster to consider important.

Delighted by my son’s Duplo Jurassic World magazine, in which a successful dinosaur zoo ticks along nicely with only very mild incidents and nobody gets hurt.

Bored of the annual ‘Maybe 2023 is going to be less of a chaotic mess!’ dance, I’m just going to start calling every year Year One like in The Left Hand of Darkness.

Has anyone done a ‘Shit Winter Wonderland’-themed immersive Christmas event yet?

So far today I’ve had three BBC breaking news alerts about a new Netflix series. Thanks, valued national broadcaster!

It seems that however many times I read it, I never remember that in the first Winnie-the-Pooh story, Christopher Robin shoots Winnie-the-Pooh.