Well played, Lidl... Well played.

Just how much should I let it annoy me

that in this pathetically simple advert someone couldn't even be bothered to format the '.co.uk' into the same font as the 'WH Smith'?

Answers on a postcard - addressed to my psychiatrist.

Tis the season to be X44

Crap

that will surely set you back a fortune.

Although I do quite like the Prufock mug.

Although a bit gutted

that, thanks to an old schoolfriend's click-baity Facebook activities, I was compelled to go and look up the word 'emacity', I confess I did feel somewhat better when I read '3 matching dictionaries'...

[problem caused by Nathalie Gwilliam]

Pro writing tip

Avoid impulse-bought biros from the Sports Direct counter. They're rubbish.

Grocery-shopping factoid

In order to teach my phone 'courgettes' I had to switch the dictionary into French.

(And yet it knows 'aubergine'... Qu'est-ce que le deuce?!)

Amazon classic

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Overheard

from the fitting rooms at Bluewater:

Careful with Humpty Dumpty. You don't want to break him!