White & McKay Miscellany.

You know what I really hate? You set a track playing on YouTube, and then skip to another tab, forgetting that this particular track starts with a 20 second advert for some hateful boy band or girl band, every single song of whose is carefully gauged to have exactly 72¾ beats per minute so that millions of people will thinks it’s Great Music and buy the latest album.

Suddenly, your ears are blasted by an appalling racket with the destructive power of a tsunami full of broken glass. I hate that.

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This is a picture of the priestess and me, taken the last time we were both in heaven at the same time. I’m the one in trousers.

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You know that sound people sometimes make in their nose when they’re stifling a laugh? How do you spell it?