2008 slightly skewed: October to December

MY ad-hoc, hotch-potch look back at 2008 concludes, picking out my favourite bits and leaving the strawberry creams for someone else to digest.

2008 slightly skewed: July to September

MY random and heavily-biased review of 2008 reaches July, as I reach for a couple of segments of chocolate orange. Mmm, tasty.

2008 slightly skewed: April to June

CONTINUING my highly-subjective look back at 2008, thrown together while I eat my way through leftover Christmas chocolates. Mint crisp, anyone?

2008 slightly skewed: January to March

IT is an undeniable fact that, were it not for the Gubbometer, this blog would have about eight readers. My interest in sport does extend beyond making mildly sarcastic comments about the last 10 minutes of Match of the Day, though. (Not very far, but it does.)

Hoy story

WELL. I got the top three right – just not in the right order. Right up until the moment he was announced as the runner-up, I was convinced that Lewis Hamilton would be crowned the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year.

Ping pong’s coming home

THIS is all Ian Hislop’s fault, you know. It doesn’t seem like five minutes since Boris Johnson was stumbling his way through Have I Got News For You? Now, all of a sudden, he appears to have become the face of the 2012 Olympics.

Superman II

THERE were seven other athletes in the Olympic men’s 200 metres final. I’d struggle to tell you how any of them did. There was only really two contenders in the race – Usain Bolt and the clock.

I thought we were supposed to be rubbish

EXCUSE me, but I was under the impression, going into the Olympics, that Great Britain would be lucky to win a single gold medal. And yet here we are, 10 days into the Games, and we’ve won 12 of the blighters.

Come in number eight

AND on and on and on it goes. As I write this, the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics still hasn’t finished. (The Poland team has just entered the stadium.) At this rate, they will be done just in time for the closing ceremony to start.