Probably the best joke I’ve read all week

Bleak, eh?

Sunday morning, sitting at my desk (you know, the cool Victorian writing desk from earlier blogs?) at 10am watching the rain pour down outside on a bleak day that can’t decide if it is winter or still autumn.

10am. These blogs go out at 8am, don’t they? I was going to write this last night, but came down with a case of, well, you’ll see when you read the joke.

I had even planned to go on a bike ride (yup, regular readers have seen me post about some of those adventures in recent weeks too), but with weather like this, well, no.

So, coffee in hand, what to write about today? Well, simply this, to curate a brilliant joke from the latest weekly newsletter from Nick Parker, who, mark your diaries for 5pm UK on Tuesday 5th January, will soon be a guest in conversation with me on #WhatComesNextLive.

By the way, as I typed that date, I am reminded of my constant struggle to speak and write English in “English English”, “Scottish English”, “Caymanian English” and, most of all, “American English”. Why do the Americans say “5pm on January 5th” and the Brits “17:00 on 5th January”. Come to think of it, what’s with the Oxford comma, and, and, am so happy that the trend towards two spaces after a full stop (period?) is coming to an end. Never got that one myself, can’t say I’ve ever written two spaces after a…