The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.

Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

1. Boob Pencil: 21 Reasons Why a Miscarriage is Bit Rubbish

People are either too sympathetic or not sympathetic enough. I don’t want people to act like nothing’s happened, but I don’t want them fawning all over me either. Sorry folks, you’re best avoiding me for a bit. I don’t have an Etiquette Guide for this one, and I’ll change my mind from one moment to the next.

2. Don’t Call Me Joe: I Just Don’t Tell ‘Em Like He Did

That night, under cover of darkness, Dad, Dad’s mate Bill and I (I had lost the Pennine intonation from my accent at university and it was join in or forever be dubbed the ‘Southern Fairy’) bundled the body into a sack, placed it in a wheelbarrow and made for the small river at the back of the potato field.

3. MegFowler.com: liveblogging scrabble (OR… how to be a complete dork on the Internet)

Catherine is dominating much more than she needs to at this point. She’s like Tiger Woods. She doesn’t even feel the need to pretend we’re on her level. Nike just knocked at the door and offered her an endorsement deal.

Soon?

Air Catherine.

My latest word is “lint.” This is also 80% of the contents of my brain, the other 20% being some combination of coffee beans and neurons.

4. TRL: The Rob Log: The Age of Hyper-Sensitivity

… ‘finding outrage’ seems to be a cottage industry these days, and personal umbrage seems to be the default response. I can’t and won’t quibble over what you feel; I only offer these words of caution as my two cents, because — to borrow from Gilbert — when every issue becomes an outrage, then no issue is truly outrageous.

5. Speedysnail: Labour Days

If you’ve visited the house of a pregnant woman you may have seen a big colourful rubber ball rolling around the living room, about a metre across. Sitting on these helps to stretch the pelvis and push the baby down onto the cervix, accelerating contractions. At one pre-natal class a midwife asked Jane if she had one of these balls.

“No,” replied Jane, “but I do have a spacehopper.”

Cue look of horror as midwife pictures Jane’s fetus bouncing off her uterine walls as she boings across a field.

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6. Unreliable Witness: Warning: may contain nuts

Some targets, however, are too obvious to resist. Indeed, some targets positively beg and shout for attention. “Pick me! Pick me! Fulminate wildly about ME!” they squeal, whilst jumping up and down and waving their arms in the air. And I give in and haul them out of the team line-up for a sound ticking-off, because I am only human, after all.

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday April 13th

[from fuck-up to] fab!*: funny anniversary

“On April Fools’ Day 9 years ago, an official-looking envelope landed on my doormat.
By some prescient fluke, a County Court in the Home Counties had seen it fit to grant me a decree absolute that day.
It was a fitting end to a union that had been one big joke from the start..”

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Our judges said:

“Funny, subtle and incredibly well written. Ariel has a way with language which makes it easy to laugh at and sympathise with her experiences, all in the space of few short lines. Wonderful.”

“Entertaining, self-deprecating and more than a little sad. I like her style.”

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

1. An Unreliable Witness - While You Sleep

“All I can do. I shall sit here, barely moving, barely breathing, holding your right hand gently between my cool palms, feeling the delicate lines of skin that form above and below the joints of each of your fingers.”

2. Currybetdotnet - The ten things most likely to be on The Daily Express front page

“In a bid to try and find out what it is that The Express actually does, I’ve studied the front pages from the last three months, and analysed the stories that appeared on them. Not just the main front page headline itself, but also the other stories and features that go to make up the newspaper’s shop window as well.”

3. Edvard Moonke Chavs R Us

“From the perspective of a newly-arrived foreign observer, Britain must seem an impenetrable and baffling array of unspoken rules and traditions. From a distance, the archetypal British male still wears a tweed jacket and sips his tea with his pinkie firmly erect.”

4. From Fuck UP to Fab - Funny Anniversary

“On April Fools’ Day 9 years ago, an official-looking envelope landed on my doormat.
By some prescient fluke, a County Court in the Home Counties had seen it fit to grant me a decree absolute that day.
It was a fitting end to a union that had been one big joke from the start..”

5. Rachel from North London - Felicity Jane Lowde of Oxford has been found guilty of harassment

“Since I started posting on the internet, like many bloggers and internet users, I’ve been trolled, flamed and had nasty comments directed at me. I’ve ignored them, let them bounce off, and I do not take action against such people. It’s unfortunately seen as part of life on the internet these days. But one person went too far, and either could not, or would not stop. I can now finally tell you all the story. And having told it, I would like to draw a line, and never think of it again.”

6. Restaurant Gal - Note to the Angels: Tell My Dad I Send Love

“I always knew I would see him again, knew I would feel his arms wrap me in a hug one more time. I just didn’t know how long and difficult and wondrous the journey would be to find him.

The last time my father saw me was in California. I was a tow-headed youngster holding the hand of my mother and baby sister as we climbed the steps to the airplane that would whisk us east”

7. The QC Report - Embraceable me

“I get it. It’s Vogue. They live on ads and advertisers want us wanting stuff, buying stuff. But this was an article about physical well-being in an issue seemingly focused on bodily diversity and it still came down to “You’re not enough, you will never be enough. Buy more stuff”.”

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday April 6.