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

If YOU would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night - thank you.

With apologies for the delay, here’s this week’s shortlist:

(1) 123 I Love You’s: Black Men with Wings - nominated by Alex

“I know because, most nights, instead of sleeping, I am sitting in the corner of my room, quaking with rage, tracking his coughs with a mechanical pencil and a piece of foolscap. You see, I am trying to calculate – from the frequency of these coughs – the speed with which his death is approaching.”

(2) Betty’s Utility Room: Ennui Rule the Dance - nominated by Mike

“There’s been a lot of stuff and nonsense in the papers about, um, how the festival has gone downhill in recent years, what with the exorbitant ticket costs and our determination to stop yobs scaling over the fence and ruining it for the likes of genuine music fans such as Sadie Frost, Sienna Miller, Danny Dyer, Peaches Geldof and other esteemed celebrity guests who for me embody the real spirit of Glastonbury.”

(3) Exultations and Difficulties: And so … - nominated by Mike

“Third is Emma Peel, the Avenger (pictured below) who gave this wandering soul an anchor in a sea (nay, an ocean) of watery flow, as it were. Some people have said to me that any philosophy based upon the mumblings of a fictional Emma_2 character, however delicious, has to be fundamentally flawed, but it’s them what’s flawed, because Emma Peel is no fiction.”

(4) Non-Working Monkey: Day 635: I Write to my Bank - nominated by Alex

“If a French message kicks in, don’t be afraid - we speak French in this part of Canada. Just leave a message. It’ll be nice to hear from you. ”

(5) Planet Me: Never Forget - nominated by SwissToni

“Because I remember the songs that saved my life. And I will hear their voice in my head, and think of them kindly. Forever.

(6) Random Burbling: The Five Ring Circus - nominated by Missy M

“Except of course that they seem to have missed one important point. London is not on a route between Mount Olympus and Beijing. Paris is not on a route between Mount Olympus and Beijing. San Francisco might be, if you go the long way.”