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• The Boys at the 100 Club, 7 January 2023 – on the legendary punk rock band
• Draft manuscript of Betty’s Adventure discovered – regarding the charming children’s book Alice wrote about our little dog
• Some clerihews – short comic biographical poems
• Betty’s last wiggle – on the death of our little dog, Betty
• Expectations – and the pressures they bring
• BetCoin – an exciting cryptocurrency investment opportunity
• Trevor bloody Howard and the last mystery – has the internet killed mystery?
• The People Versus @ The Bullingdon (Oxford) 2022-11-04 – sharing another writer’s gig review
• Spotify serendipity – happy random music discoveries
• Stop the lazy bad guy signalling – regarding offensive bad guy shortcuts
• Survey monkeys – don’t you love completing surveys?
• Votes for Members – a piece of London Stock Exchange history
• Fun in the Pugwash Lounge – running a secondhand bookshop
• Philately will get you nowhere – buying a stamp album
• Betty – our grumpy little rescue dog
• Let Me Take You Down… ‘cause I’m going to, Strawberry Fields records in Rickmansworth
• 25 best Edward Lear limericks
• Cracker – our black Labrador, r.i.p.
• Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof: Part 2 – The Large Wynnstay Collider – conclusion of my search for aristocratic ancestry
• (insert random number here) best ever cartoons
• Two visits to the Apollo Theater, Harlem – in 2007 and 2022
• The worst thing about Debbie – well, just that
• Tumbi – my first dog
• How did you get here? – attempting to explain a surge in blog traffic
• A quarter of my life is almost past – reflection on The Lovin’ Spoonful
• Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof – in search of aristocratic ancestry
• Medal Going Home – getting a medal back to its family
• Kath’s writing – my mother’s writings and memories
• Forgotten Moments in Music History – the story of our cartoon series
• The Panic Brothers – music memory
• Breakfast with Goofy – memories, family
• The Mint Juleps – music memory
• Cecil Parkinson, Ken Livingstone, music and me – personal history, music
• Take a Trip to No Dragon Wood – song lyric, humour
• Aelwyn’s Writing – my father’s writings and memories
• The University Challenge Challenge – humour
• Welcome to Harry Hornet’s Parade – humour, football
• Aelwyn’s War – my father’s wartime memories
• Blackadder Goes Forth – “Goodbyeee” – Television’s finest half hour? – TV criticism
• The Gem of Tanzania – personal history, financial
• Rhys Jones in the Battle of Normandy – my father’s cousin’s wartime memories
• Trying not to Work – personal history, publishing
• 1996 and 1997: How Merrill Lynch ruined them – personal history, financial
• the end bit – music, dark themes
• The Mug Protocol – humour
• Matthew and Son – music, humour
• Father to the Man – personal history, running
• 28,103,832 drips – humour
• O jabjous day! Callooh! Callay! – reflections on Covid vaccination
• Smokey’s 49-year vacation – personal history, music, humour
• Room 101 – having a good moan
• The Sneeze – humour
• Llanuwchllyn – family history
• The Copper Bowl – personal history, charity work
• Up to the Job – personal history, financial
• Come join the u3a – music, u3a, humour
• My Short but Glorious Rugby Career – personal history
• Palin and Holmes – looking back to greatness – reflection on celebrity
• The Excellent Trap – fiction
• Navigation Aid – fiction
• Totality – fictionalised family history
• Cryptic Music Quiz: difficulty level – extreme
• Losing My Religion – personal history
• The Two Ronnies – rediscovered Mastermind sketch – humour
• Library Night – personal history, children
• Let’s do this – personal history, music
• Cliff Richard and the Shadows, O2 Arena, 26 September 2009 – music memory
• Odontophobia – personal history, dentists
• Sallie – family history, my grandmother
• Buzzworld-X – fiction
• The Picture – family history
• Lockdown Diary: part 2 – Covid
• Lockdown Diary: part 1 – Covid
• The Laboratory in Chestnut Avenue – personal history, paper rounds
• The Secret Genius of Charles III – The Beatles, Shakespeare authorship question, humour
• Taid – family history, my grandfather
• Nine Handy Trouble-saving Opera Hacks – opera, humour
• Passing Back the Wisdom – fiction
• The Rolling Stones, O2 Arena, 25 November 2012 – music memory
• Basil Murray Savage 1910-1994 – memories of a teacher
• Paddington Bear and the Cholesterol Bath – personal history, breakfast
• Teacher’s Pet – school memories
• David Bowie, Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, 24 December 1972 – music memory
• The shadow on the lawn – personal history
• David Gauke – My Part in Not Preventing His Downfall – personal history, politics
• Night visits – dreams
• Nain – family history, my grandmother
• 51 – fiction extract
• elementary – poem, humour
• Please don’t – on Europe
• Addressing Unfairness in the Virgin London Marathon and Boston Marathon qualifying times – running
• king commode and his expanding rubber band, Watford Grammar School for Boys – 1st April 1969 – music memory
• Dr Feelgood, Cambridge Corn Exchange – 25 September 1976 – music memory
• Everly Brothers, Royal Albert Hall – Thursday 22 September 1983 – music memory
• Led Zeppelin, Empire Pool, Wembley – 21 November 1971 – music memory
• The Golden Tree of St Francis – fiction, ghost story
• run places – running
• The Bream and the Mule – personal history, humour, poetry
• The Voyage of the Alpha Beta – personal history, humour, poetry
• A brush with greatness – personal history, Sir David Attenborough
• Fall of the House of – personal history, financial
• Two photographs from 1933 – family history
• Finish line – running, dark themes
• Gaukey and Me – personal history, politics
• Opportunity Requiem – space exploration, poetry
• Gan-gan – family history, my grandfather
• Jeremy Corbyn and the Large Flightless Bird – personal history, humour
• The Top (Insert Arbitrary Number) Classic Nasty Songs – music, humour
• A Guide to Completing Your Wimbledon Ballot Application Form – humour
• Six Spades – fictionalised family history
• Pulled Pork Baguette with a Side of Grief – personal history
• No Dragon Wood – family history, fiction
• The GRILL PAN HANDLE – personal history, humour
• The Ticket Drawer – family history
• Midnight – fiction, dark themes
• Fact Check: How to Hug – humour
• Running and Cheating – running – Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Jimmy Savile
• Colin – school memories
• At Brookfields – fiction, old age
• Silly Mid-Off – personal history, cricket
• Ronald – personal history, humour
• The Restless Miller – fictionalised family history, ghost story
• At Pantclyd Farm – fictionalised family history, dark themes
• The Fisherman’s Girl – fictionalised family history, ghost story
• High Barnet Train – fiction, dark themes
• Bit Nicer – fictionalised family history
• Absolution – fiction, dark themes
• Barry Humphreys gets rid of Rik Edwards – personal history
• For Dad – family history
• Cinquanta – family history, poetry, humour
• How to do “The Times” Crossword
• John Lennon 1940-1980 – eulogy