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  1. You May Be Wondering What I’m Doing Here: why this blog will not feature any photos of my cat, or allow people (or my cat) to criticise the lack of cat photos.
  2. Danger: Void Behind Door: a brief rumination on the fickleness of both women and space-time, and the possibility that access to some sort of primordial infinite darkness can be gained from the southbound Bakerloo Line platform at Waterloo.
  3. Crawling Up The Mile End Road: why buses, naked women and steamed puddings are synonymous in the minds of most middle-aged men, and why Boris’s obsession with helplessly drunk teenagers is so far proving a good thing.
  4. A Higher Evil: are independent bookshops their own worst enemy, or just my own worst enemy?
  5. 48 hours in Vigo: a man on a small trampoline explains how Sir Francis Drake would have dealt with Ryanair’s “no aeroplane” approach to cost cutting, and we find out what Galicians keep in their hold-alls.
  6. You’re So Quiet You Sound Like Aldershot: why it’s not just the lack of an internationally renowned art gallery, good tapas and an occasionally murderous independence movement that distinguishes Leyton from Bilbao.
  7. And When Did You Last See Your Husband Alive?: why Geneva is full of unwanted hair – and I don’t just mean the moustaches – and why I would rather our readers were responsible for the obliteration of the universe than purchased a Magnet Cubista Walnut kitchen.
  8. Kiss Me Again Like You Mean It: how I sacrificed my chance of being published by Canongate on the rough-hewn altar of truth, dignity and acceptable hyphenation practice, with a small digression into how dogless lesbians keep warm in Canadian snowdrifts.
  9. Jonathan, David, Carol and Me: why David Beckham is a true gent, Jonathan Ross can do no wrong, and Carol Thatcher will be getting her rice and peas delivered by Ocado in future.
  10. It’s Magnificent, But It’s Not The Station: how I was abducted by aliens from South Harrow station and had the true nature of Boris Johnson revealed to me.
  11. Christ On A Bike: The Boris Johnson Story, Pt.34: how the removal of bendy buses on route 507 inspired a new TfL competition to redesign the wheel in time for 2012.
  12. A Public Disservice: in which I am forced to bribe an elderly man in Wolverhampton with a spongey dessert in order to demonstrate to Richard Branson that trains are not planes and that privatisation is wrong.