Scrabbling about in an old box I came across a threepenny bit. Nostalgia told me that would have bought me three pork chops, a dozen eggs and a week in Marbella with a farthing change. But I expect my memory's going.

Surely the most devastating news since my mum was strapped to the ducking stool at the Wandle.

Members of think tanks imagine they think in a superior manner to those outside. They are often entirely wrong.

I frequently look up to the top right of the screen and see Prince Andrew trending. That someone of such utter irrelevance should trend so often is surprising and concerning all in one package.

I rather dislike the ad in the past few days that determines you're probably an evil monster if you don't turn your child into a pincushion.

Now that I've been relieved of the responsibility of watering the garden for the next ten years, I will have so much free time to scheme and plot🤣🤣

It has never been properly explained to me why, when the government do something really stupid - and not only in my eyes I might add - I am duty bound to accept it. As the basic rules of democracy no longer apply.

If the words black, hole, rebuild and foundation were outlawed, what a better place the world would be?

If the fabric of buildings becomes cold and damp because of an inability to turn the heating on, even if you ignore the threat to elderly people, it's not going to do the housing stock a lot of good.

Just had to Google 'Greek commentator on GB News'. I now know her name but am none the wiser🤣🤣

What was the critical event that made so many people happen upon Newsnight last night, having not watched it for years? Couldn't be a mass outbreak of fibbing I suppose?

One could, of course, entertain the thought "Why do we need a second chamber?". What we need is a system in which those put into the commons get the legislation right first time and are able to be slung out with the rubbish if they don't.

The prospect of being sent to Estonia might be an incentive to mug an old lady? First time I would have been abroad for many decades.

I'm not very well versed in Irish politics. Until very recently I just assumed they didn't have any.

"The government will...." is, in 90% of cases, a fib.

Standing in the rain photographing the Isle of Wight where it isn't. Has to be a redeeming feature🤣🤣🤣 But who's a silly boy then?

The main problem with getting up at first light to avoid the rain is that I think it's lunchtime and it's only 10:30.

Even a Frenchman must believe that appointed Prime Ministers aren't a good idea?