Danskcolin: Friday October 16th 2025 "Pictures of your meals on Instagram

Yes, friends, have you ever posted a pic of your latest meal out on Instagram, only to get a disappointing number of 'likes' ?

We've all been there, haven't we!! But now Greggs Bakeries have come up with an innovative solution, according to this morning's local news for East Hampshire - turn to page 94 !!!

"Kudos, Greggs!" - that's what my moderate-to-light wife Lois and I say for, like, the billionth time (more probably!) as we chuckle over the story after another stressful morning.

Once more we had driven the 10 miles south to local shopping mecca of Petersfield, Hampshire (pop: 14,974), to try and sort out Lois's mobile, which she's been locked out of for unknown reasons, and also try and find "that dress" - we've got to wait till next week now on the phone as the phone clinic has negotiated a 48-hour "cooling-off period" before Huawei will act, and we come away with a dress, after trying on a billion of them - more probably! - in the fitting rooms of Petersfield's myriad clothing-store fitting-rooms: Made in Italy and Woolovers.

Petersfield's vibrant shopping centre - a recent picture

It's only Lois, by the way, who's trying on those dresses, and not Yours Truly, despite the many rumours you may have heard (!).

we try on, like, a billion dresses (more probably!) in local shopping mecca Petersfield's

myriad women's clothing stores (Made in Italy and Woolovers) this morning

Lois tends to have a problem finding dresses, because she's a little bit "petite", at 5 ft 3, whereas most dresses are made for the new younger generation of new-style 'giantesses' (!).

In the end, she comes away with the dress in the top right pic, incidentally. Did she choose wisely? I, for one, think she did. Most of the dresses we see look a bit "baggy", but the one she has chosen, in my humble opinion, best showcases her new slim figure having lost a stone and a half over the last few months, would you believe! Kudos, Lois !!!!

the dress we finally come away with, although not without paying for it (!)

Your views welcome, however - as long as you keep them to yourselves haha!

14:00 Very much a stressful morning, however, and I'm ashamed to say that we compensate by spending the whole afternoon in bed, when we should have been working on some legal queries relating to the sale of our still unsold old home in Malvern - what madness !!!!!

we spend the afternoon in bed, when we should have been

working on some legal queries from our solicitor - what madness!!!

Still, you're only old once haha!!!!

21:00 We wind down for bed tonight by watching this week's edition of "Have I Got News For You", the comedy topical news quiz.

And if you missed the show, why not try YOUR hand at some of these head-scratchers from the show's Headline Missing Words round: and how about this one, for starters (!):

"Your mum!" suggests many panellists for the missing words. Well you wouldn't say that if your mum was Lois - Kudos (again) Lois !!!

Apparently the following is the correct answer - did YOU get it?

"Simples!", when you know isn't it, although one wonders how they can possibly know that.

And staying with the ant theme, try your hand at this one: "What's the world's best ant joke? Panellist Paul Merton thinks he knows the answer - no surprise there!

Haha! But no! The correct answer is this little "doozy", coming up now, would you believe (!).

Here's another brain-teaser, all about Tory Party 'grandee' Michael Gove, the former Government Environment Secretary and Brexit campaigner.

On this one, however, Paul Merton comes a cropper again, with an obviously unsuitable (and factually wrong!) answer!

Here's the correct response;

And if you're wondering about Gove's current sleeping arrangements, adds presenter Alexander Armstrong, Gove is now a member of the House of Lords. Enough said haha!!!

Finally, if you've struck out so far, try your hand at this one!

And no, once again, the obvious answers "paints her arse red" and "throws her shit at schoolchildren", again some of panellist Paul Merton's more inspired suggestions, both turn out to be wrong. What madness!!!

Here, for reference, is the actual headline:

At this point, tonight's viewers are treated to a charming excerpt from ITV's top daytime show, "This Morning", where the woman concerned is one of the presenters' top guests: