The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

Sorry the Shortlist is a little later than usual, folks - busy times…

1. a man & his hoover: It’s Official - I’m Not Skinny
(Nominated by Bob)

Figuring someone had a friend arriving or maybe food delivered I stood aside in the narrow hallway to let the new person pass by, particularly as some people seem to be bothered by small white furry dogs.

2. An Unreliable Witness: Unsent letter #8
(Nominated by Kate)

Give or take a day or two, and more or less half a memory away, it struck me this afternoon, like a forceful blow to the back of the neck from a malevolent spirit, that it has been a full year since this still regrettably one-sided correspondence began.

3. freaky trigger: Self-Organising Systems in the London Bridge Pret a Manger(Nominated by Mike)

His main role in the customers’ lives, though - a thankless one - is to inform us that there are six open tills and can we please form six queues, instead of, as invariably happens, one big long queue which fills individual tills from the front. Is he right?

4. pixeldiva: When I am Queen
(Nominated by Lyle)

Classes will be taken from early childhood in the correct way to behave on public transport, and anyone found breaching those rules will be given points on their licence, much in the same way points are awarded from breaches of the driving rules.

5. Scaryduck: On Christmas round-robin letters
(Nominated by kate)

Season of goodwill? Arse.

Well, screw that, this year I’m doing it properly

6. sukratL TIME WELL SPENT SAY I
(Nominated by Mike)

Scientific Socialism are an acoustic duo from East Germany, Miko Efflböch and Dini “Striped Pants” Gneidängerlands-Muchtereide, who together fled the Fall of the East and the restoration of capitalistic economic tyranny, for a life of radical avant-garde nomadism in Camberwell in South London.

7. The perorations of Lady Bracknell: Rant
(Nominated by Miss Vertigo )

What the DDA does not demand - and neither should it - is that disabled people should be paid to work in jobs for which they are completely unsuited, and that their employers should turn a blind eye to how rubbish they are at what they’re being paid to do because, oh God, it must be dreadful and appalling to “suffer from a disability”.

8. Write Procrastinator: Junior’s observational skills
(Nominated by Bob)

Junior: Who is Etta James?
Me: She’s a singer.
Junior: She doesn’t seem to want to sing about happy things.
Me: Yeah, well, I think she’s a blues singer.