Not one to pitch in often round these parts but our 4 chihuahuas would be annoyed if I didn’t mention the following: Youth Culture Killed My Dog – They Might Be Giants Man & Dog – London Wainwright I […]

I have over 130,000 photos stored in Apple Photos/iCloud and struggled for years to find a good way of deduplicating. I can confirm that the PhotoSweeper app for MacOS is superb at this – great duplication […]

I read Bob Mortimer’s autobiography recently, during which he recalls the time as a teenager his GP had him bent over to examine some problem or another and Bob accidentally let one go. Superb riposte from his GP […]

Admitting you have a problem and knowing you are the only one who can fix it is the first step, right? Having lost my mum to the daily perils of the booze and seen the daily havoc it can wreak on the health and […]

I did a city break to Lisbon recently and it really is a brilliant place. Some top tips:

1. TimeOut market has been recommended above and is simply awesome. Walk in, walk around, drink it in, make your choices, […]

Not a musical shift as such, but the lyrical shift from third to first person in the coda of Galahad by Josh Ritter always knocks me for 6 (fab animation in this video too):

My old man used to say that when in the theatre “always leave them wanting more”. Great bloke, terrible anaesthetist…..

A few friends and family in my world have a bit of a sad but entirely amusing game where any tweet of theirs that is liked, replied to or commented on by anyone with a blue tick earns you a number of points […]

It’s been out for a few months, but having really enjoyed The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix over Christmas, Mrs Lefthand and I then binged on Unorthordox, which is about 43 times better. A better or more compelling […]

I think you have a few options here but we moved to a barn conversion with extremely WiFi-unfriendly walls last year and after much expense of cash and time on ineffective extenders and power lines, I bought a […]

Marry your second wife first…