The spirit medium says the squeaking sounds l sometimes hear from my chimney are the ghost of a Victorian-era urchin who got trapped up there and perished. They also said this is so common, it's the origin of the name for beloved children's TV character Sweep.

Strange that we use the number of people who refute the existence or occurrence of something as the unit for the sturdiness of tights

I hear that scientists did a test on a urinal and found it contained traces of 14 different types of peanut

l had my phone with me, so l was able to capture candid footage of the famous K-Pop boyband at Bratislava airport - stay tuned for my BTS BTS BTS footage

- Why aren't the Matins bells ringing? - I think Jacques was on the rota. He might have overslept. - Okay, I want you to get some local children together, and get them to sing a song about how he needs to wake up and do his job. - I'm not sure that will work. - It will if they sing it in a round.

If you hear the phrase 'lived experience' and think that (linguistically and logically) it suggests there's such a thing as 'unlived experience', you'd be right; for most of us, it can be found in the Biography section of the nearest bookshop

Peanuts used to trigger a negative reaction in me when l was younger, but as l got older I've come to appreciate the interplay between the underlying melancholy and Schultz's deft linework

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I like the way The Devil Wears Prada 2 swipes the action movie trope of handing the protagonist a sexual partner as a reward for saving the day

Coincidentally, the same thing that girl at college said about the mixtape l spent hours making for her

Mind you, they'll have to wait at the Collect counter to pick it up like the rest of us www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Been wishing for it for twenty years now, but still no sign of a copy of The Secret for me

When someone starts making a facile argument, l always shout "Oh God! Oh Jesus Christ!" - I've learned from classic cinema that it's what you should do when you first spot a straw man

I'm not going to check because it'll probably spoil my delusion, but l like to think there is only one item for sale on the Shop page of the website for Aulos

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was on social media, and you could slide into their DMs whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though." - The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger (2026 updated edition)

Seems a bit hmm when newspaper columnists spend time railing against every change in the world in the past seventy years but also criticise Leonardo DiCaprio for only dating women under 25

Six of one, half a dozen of the other: that's how generative AI allocates fingers and thumbs to pictures of hands

If you go to see The Odyssey on one of the very hard-to-find UltraIMAX screens, you realise the cropping made the Cerberus scene look like a Cyclops

Bad timing for Beck to have quit the family band just before they had such success with Mmmbop

"Henry? We've got the shot we wanted - but can l ask, have you ever done anything that might have annoyed a horse? I know it's an odd question, but, well..."

People like to say that Eskimos have fifty words for snow, but nobody seems as impressed that cows have one noise for absolutely everything

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I'm sure I've never seen Papa or Mama Ganoush

I know there's a tendency to assume James Patterson's co-authors are the ones doing all the actual writing, but sometimes l think we have to give him the benefit of the doubt

My Wuthering Heights screenplay is different from all the others - it starts at the point Cathy dies

Hang on, isn't the Emmerdale theme tune just the music from the opening titles of the Six Million Dollar Man?

I really hope that when Susan is at big family meals and everyone there is benefitting from her invention of the spinny plate thing, they have the decency not ro call her lazy

A lot of people online were shocked at Telemachus using the word 'dad' in the trailer for the new Odyssey film - they'll be even more appalled when they realise none of the film's characters are speaking in Homeric Greek

So steeped in nerd culture, l immediately assumed this painting was something to do with Deadpool or Spider-Man

Bit suspicious that nobody quoted in this story expresses any concern about them hatching... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have you heard that actor and wrestler Laurence Tureaud (I'm sorry) is contemptuous of food substitutes which claim (l know, l know) to completely meet your nutrition requirements? Yes, that's right (brace)... Mr T pities the Huel