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My long suffering wife and I celebrate our wedding anniversary every year in July. To mark this momentous milestone, I buy her flowers, chocolate, champagne and book a corner table at our favourite restaurant, the wife takes the kids camping in the New Forest with her girlfriends while I make the annual pilgrimage to the Hook Norton Festival of Fine Ales with my mates. So, if you’d like to read something from me in a different style, full match reports for the 2002 and 2003 festivals are already available online together with photos of a human pyramid. We even have our own stalker. ...

A video of ‘Jean’ (unplugged) with Sandie Shaw on vocals and Johnny Marr on acoustic guitar in Kew gardens surrounded by Morrissey, Rourke, Joyce and assorted children. I think I might wake up tomorrow morning to discover I dreamt all this. If so, I apologise profusely in advance.

When you are in a crisis meeting, and a consultant or project manager says ‘We desperately need an intervention from ABC - now !’, do you ever find yourself idly scribbling the lyrics from Interpol’s ‘Say Hello To the Angels’ on your pristine pad of white paper ? This is a concept This is a bracelet This isn’t no intervention Two hours later, in the same crisis meeting, when the same consultant or project manager forcefully asks ‘Is Freddie Geekmeister from Advanced Technical Support engaged ?’, are you ever tempted to reply ‘No. As far as I know, Freddie Geekmeister is currently a bachelor of this parish’. ...

I just booked a flight to Oslo and noticed that under ‘Meal Options’ alongside ‘Vegetarian’, ‘Non-dairy’ and various religious preferences was the intriguing option of ‘Bland’ so of course I immediately selected it. I simply can not imagine how plastic airline fare could be made any more bland. Will a cabin stewardess really waltz down the aisles demanding ‘Did anyone ask for a bland meal ?’ Stay tuned.