Category: Piffle

  • 5 Hidden Gems On Netflix
    5 Hidden Gems On Netflix

    If you’ve watched Stranger Things for the fifth time, and you’ve just completed your third binge of Friday Night Lights, you might be wearing out your thumb scrolling through Netflix looking for something new and brilliant to watch. Here’s a list of five great shows that are so little watched I might as well have…

  • Anecdon’ts
    Anecdon’ts

    Sometimes there’s just nothing to talk about. Sometimes, you can go days and days with plenty of things happening, thinking all the while that these events and stories would make great anecdotes. And sometimes, like, you know, always, nothing happens and you just have to tell short, pointless Anecdon’ts*. Here’s a list of things that…

  • The Memory Machine
    The Memory Machine

    I don’t have that Timehop thing enabled on Facebook – the one that reminds you of posts you made on this day in the past. So I’ve made my own. By simply Googling random dates, here I post the top image search result. From my birthday: It’s a picture of a Cessna brum brum plane…

  • 5 Things I’ve Seen On My Recent Walks
    5 Things I’ve Seen On My Recent Walks

    Ambling around, wandering by, strolling along, and generally waddling towards an unarticulated destination, I’ve been walking a few times this week. And here are five things I’ve witnessed on my travels. The Underside Of The Second Severn Crossing When I was younger, we used to sail under the original Severn Bridge rather often, but I haven’t…

  • Normalverse
    Normalverse

    “Don’t read this in a public place, you won’t be able to stop yourself laughing out loud. It reminds me of Douglas Adams, the careful plotting mixed with those absurdities and jokes that sneak up and make you snort tea through your nose. Hilarious.” Goodreads. What if you really were the centre of the universe?…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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