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In brief 🩲 * Journal: There is hope for margarine * Art: From in-jokes to cartoon compendium * Practical: Tetris your fortnight by using the gaps * Advice: The secret to keeping your chickens enthusiastic about life * Podcast: Perfectly reasonable to one; anathema to another From the journal 📖 A housesitter from long ago left some

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Is it a rocket, a rolling pin, a marrow, or...? * Art: Metaphors for aimlessness * Practical: Get a loft bed (or – preferably – don’t get one) * Advice: Making a loft bed need not be entirely impossible From the journal 📖 My kids Ida (6) and Neko (10) are going

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The importance of a kihap with gravitas * Art: Collab your way to a harmonious household * Advice: One must never unwittingly sound like a goose * Practical: An ironclad pet-name-choosing method for you From the journal 📖 The kihap is an important part of taekwondo, where you support your physical

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Birds aren’t real * Art: The cardification of household artwork * Advice: There are many mothers out there – be prepared * New: Upcoming goodness for this newsletter of ours From the journal 📖 Every cafe was booked out on Mother’s Day, which is a problem for people who don’

In brief 🩲 1. From the journal: Fencing at Hogwarts, unable to “armour” 2. Feast your eyes: Tattoo flowers, eventually without lines 3. Advice that’s better than bad – it’s good: Shower curtain curtails genius 4. You can do this: A timeline for off-scale happiness From the journal 📖 After a

Faith in humanity: Partially restored Last year I wrote about a housesitter – Digby – gone bad. All of the housesitters we’d had look after our place to that point had been great, but this one was a BAD EGG, and failed us in spectacular fashion. Up until the Digby incident

In brief 🩲 * If you’re not really a pet person the road to becoming one can be tough. * My wife Vic adores hot drinks but tends to lose them faster than she drinks them. I am the hot-drink support guy in our relationship. * There’ll be no newsletter next week,