Merry Christmas, a happy new year, and a happy birthday to my blog

I usually post something on Christmas Eve because it is my blog-o-versary, although I realise it risks coming across like one of those family circular letters.

What my blog looked like in the early 2000’s

Thank you for continuing to read my personal blog posts, more than two decades after I started writing it. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful new year. You will be able to find me writing First Edition for the Guardian for the next few weeks, including, if you sign up now, a special quiz of the year edition tomorrow.

[A First Edition I wrote about missing TV episodes]

The Thursday news quiz persists, despite THE GREAT THURSDAY QUIZ HIATUS OF 2025^TM.

[Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday news quiz]

And of course I’ll still be publishing my one-line movie reviews and one-line gig reviews here, as well as tributes and the other nonsense that it occurs to me to publish. Allons-y!