The Top Class Wednesday Update has no taste
Hello, it’s me back again and thanks to Steve for holding the fort last week while I was riddled with the pox. My confinement is finished, my tests show but one little line and that’s that done with. Except of course it isn’t; as so many others have experienced the fatigue hangover is quite something […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is all about efficiency
Hello, Natalie here. Mr P is off on holiday, enjoying the balmy 7-degree temperatures of somewhere in Scottishland, so it falls to me to update you all this week. I had the genuine pleasure of attending the PA 360 conference in London a couple of weeks back. It was my first proper in-person conference for […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update embraces resistentialism
Have you ever heard of Paul Jennings? You know, the humourist who worked for The Observer throughout the fifties and sixties and who wrote The Great Jelly Of London? I haven’t, but for the purposes of this week’s Update I’ll pretend that I have because it’ll lead nicely into my main topic. Even if you […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update builds back…oh never mind
Some weeks the initial whimsy just defeats you. In a world of government by bantz, where auto-satire is somehow all good, where there are no surprises and where everything everyone said would happen is now happening, where does a humble Updater turn? Probably to the whisky bottle, that’s where – and a bit more on […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update will just have a wee slice
It’s our birthday! Happy birthday to us, etc. The lang cat is 11 today; that’s roughly the expected lifespan of one emu and you can’t knock that. I just read the birthday TCWU I did last year about going from working in a windowless basement when I started this thing to…working in a basement with […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS FLOCKING RESILIENT
The summer lull is upon us, then, and many of you will exhibit tried and true migratory patterns as you head for a magical place known only to the top socioeconomic decile of the population as The Corn Wall. Exactly what it is about the corn, or the wall, that leads so many urban-dwellers to […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE STILL HASN’T GOT OVER IT
A brilliant tournament. A truly fantastic final taken all the way to extra time. And, after a day of incredible tension, the result we all wanted. Can it really be two years to the day since the Cricket World Cup final? Good times never seemed so good. Anyway, a lot has happened since the summer […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE ISN’T EVEN REMOTELY SURPRISED
They say it’s the hope that kills you, but if you started out without any in the first place then you can just raise a weary eyebrow and carry on. It’s a bit like when Calvin is happier that he got a ‘C’ than an ‘A’ in his maths test, because if he keeps everyone’s […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS 35 YARDS OUT
So there you are, not much to do really, edging forward towards the centre circle to see if you can get in shot and improve the value of your image rights, when all of a sudden bad things happen, you’re all tangled up in the net and you’re the subject of remorseless memes like this […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE CAN BOOGIE
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I know exactly nothing about foopball; it’s the wrong shaped ball for this particular egg-chaser. Being Scottish, this is normally not an issue when major tournaments roll around, but this year is different. First, we seem inexplicably to have made it through to whatever this stage of the […]
