I’m very pleased to announce this week’s winner, not least of all because I nominated it too… Now, because that makes me copper, judge and jury, I didn’t vote this time, despite being head judge… and it still won….

It is Isabelle’s Doosra…

“Sure , in the 70’s , when I was small , I remember the rows and stormy patches , my dad with hippy sideburns and bookish ways clashing with my mums flippancy and flightiness . But somehow they got through those times of betrayal and conflict and had settled into something that looked like old love. Or friendship . Or both.”

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Our judges said:

A great tribute to her mother and father. Her respect and love for them is apparent but she pulls no punches about the realities of being a ‘carer’ and the inadequacy of the term itself. I loved it. (Tiny point: the spaces before the commas niggled my OCD brain a little)

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Heart-rending and tender and true.

Your shortlister this week was: Mike
Your judges were: Hellojed and Dandelion

… and I, Peach was your Head Judge…

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1. Bitchy Jones’s Diary: Menswear.
(nominated by The Girl)

“Do you really want me to spell out how angry I get when a man laments he doesn’t get to wear pink flowers or gold lace, in the casual meaning-free way that women do. When you’re locked up inside the gilded f***ing cage it’s really not heartening to hear the people who put you there whining about how come they don’t get to look cute in the purty prison.”

2. Letters to Ed: Doosra.
(nominated by Peach)

“My mum has the meek look of the very old ; her green eyes which used to flash fantastic as she laughed through life have become those of a supplicant. Sometimes I can’t bear to look.”

3. Rise v4: Walk Like A Man / pete.nu: To have a second baby?
(nominated by Lyle)

“I accept the fact that there will always be people ready to disapprove of my parenting and his development, but it seems a bit harsh to consider the wee bairn retarded just because his mouth is empty.”

“If we had a second child, and it was another boy, then when they get a bit older then they will always be playing 2-player games together, and there will be no room for me. This is an unacceptable risk.”

4. The Scottish Patient: Oct 1st: A Shetland Mystery: The Story of Sandy Macaulay, His Unexplained Disappearance, and the Hydrogen Car.
(nominated by Misssy M)

“As the months have passed all sorts of theories have taken legs. Suicide. Accident. Abduction. Even murder. They all have their backers.”

5. Stephen Fry: Let Fame.
(nominated by mike, seconded by Katy Newton)

“Fame is a great bouncy castle that we have all blown up to its present state by breathing the names of the famous. Simply in mentioning ‘Adam Sandler’ I have inflated his fame by a cubic millimetre. It will only deflate, over time, if his name is never uttered.”

6. Woman of Experience: A man and his newspaper are never parted.
(nominated by kate)

“You know those dating ads where men say they’d like a woman to “share Sunday papers in bed?” They’re bullshit. Once he has his newspaper, what the f*** does he need you for?”