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.

So. Let’s get on with the shortlist:

1. Belgian Waffle: This Isn’t Because I Am. I’m Not.
   Nominated by Zed.

   There was something else I forgot to say and it is this. People fought to give me this right and I am so grateful. Thank you to those women. Thank you Simone Veil. Thank you David Steel. Thank you, truly, to anyone who marched, or researched, or wrote or protested or litigated for our - for my - reproductive rights. I will never take these achievements for granted.

2. Chocolate Sandwich: A man is nothing without regimentals
   Nominated by MissyM.

   Men look so splendid in uniform don’t they?’

   I guessed that this was rhetorical and left my wife to her reverie.

   ‘All of them. They all look so…..impressive.’

   I smiled across from the Norton Recliner – happy that Maude could derive so much pleasure from such simple things. In my peripheral vision, however, I could see that her attention was breaking away from the television and turning towards me.

3. Dad Gone Mad: Gravity, Stay The Hell Away From Me<
   Nominated by MissyM.

   Do you know how sad it is to buy a tube of analgesic ointment? What a crushing blow that is to one’s sense of youth and vigor? For what it has done to my spirit, I may as well have purchased a titanium hip and a portable oxygen tank.

4. Non-working Monkey: I Consider “Listening Skills”
   Nominated by Mike.

   It is quite unbearable. I am not sure what is worse, this kind of selfish noise, or the passive-aggressive nonsense at the other end, which features one being listened to awfully carefully and nothing actually happening. Still, I am perfect and that means that it is now time for me to write yet another one of my handy ‘guides’ - guides that, if you have any sense at all, you will print off and stick to your cubicle wall.