It Is Just You, Everything’s Not Shit

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Steve Stack. It Is Just You, Everything’s Not Shit

Table of Contents

Introduction

A. Aardvark

Advent calendars

Allotments

Allotment shows

Amuse bouche

Archers theme tune

Arts cinemas

Sir David Attenborough

B. Bacon sandwiches

Bank Holidays

Albert Coombs Barnes

Baths

Bedtime stories

Bekonscot Model Village

Being a kid for five minutes

Berry picking

Birthday cards with cash in them

Black and white movies

Bookshop browsing

Breakfast in bed

Breaking the ice on a puddle

Bubble wrap

C. Cancelled meetings

Brian Cant

Frank Capra movies

Cartoons

Children’s paintings

Chinese chips

Church bells

Close encounters with wildlife

Clouds

Columbo

Constellations

Cracking a boiled egg

Cream teas

Crumpets

D. Danish pastries

Ulises de la Cruz

Digital radio

Discovering water

Drawing pictures in steamed up windows

Duck-billed platypus

Dunking biscuits

E. eBay

eglus

Extra hour in bed when the clocks go back

F. Falling in love

Fat Duck menu

Favourite shirt

Field of Dreams

Finding something you thought you’d lost

Fireworks

First page of a new book

First snow of winter

Fizzy feeling

The Flaming Lips

Flickerbooks

Flipping pancakes

Food served on a tray

Free fudge

Free hugs

Free museums

G. Globes

Good Hair Days

James Alexander Gordon

Growing your own veg

Guessing quiz show answers correctly

Guildo on Eurovision

H. Haiku

Hammocks

Harold and Maude

Having your child fall asleep in your arms

Helping lost tourists

Honesty boxes

Honey

Hotel breakfasts

Hourglasses

I. Ice cream

Ice Hotel

Ice pops

IKEA food

I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

Innocent Smoothies packaging

Inspirational movies

Internet

Internet community

Internet radio

Isle of Wight

It’s a Wonderful Life

J. Japanese cool stuff

Chuck Jones

Journey home

Juggling for more than five seconds for the first time

Jumping the queue

Just a Minute

K. Krtek the Mole

L. Landmark Trust

Last day of term

Last page of a long book

Lego

Lenticular stuff

Letter writing

LibraryThing

Licking the bowl

Lie-ins

The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was None of His Business

London Underground map

Look Left/Look Right signs

Lost property statistics

Loud music in an empty house

Lower league football supporters

Lush

M. Making your own bread

Marbles

Stephon Marbury

Meerkats

Moments before waking

Monkey

Mr Men

N. Naps

Nice biscuits

Nice cup of tea and a sit down

Non-iron shirts

Northern Lights

O. Old buildings

One Man and His Dog

Origami

P. Paper aeroplanes

John Peel

Georges Perec

Play-Doh

Playing sports against kids

Popcorn

Poppy Day

Pre-dessert

Pudding Club

Purple ones in tins of chocolates

Pyramids

Pyramid tea bags

Q. A quarter of…

Quiet carriages

R. Rain borders

Rainbows

Precious Ramotswe

Miss Read

Reading in bed

Reading in the bath

Reading on the loo

S. Sailing By

Satellite spotting

School trip gift shop purchases

Dr Seuss

Seventies weather forecasts

Shipping forecast

Skimming stones

Smallfilms

Smiles

Snowglobes

Sock football

Someone else doing your ironing

Sound jelly makes

Spinning coins

Staying up late to finish a good book

Sunday lunch

Sunday morning walks

Sunny days in the garden

Sunrises

Sunsets

T. Taiwanese notebook slogans

Treehouses

Trumptonshire trilogy

Camberwick Green

Trumpton

Chigley

U. Underwater swimming

Unicycles

V. Velcro

Victory for the underdog

W. Waking up thinking it’s Friday but realising it is actually Saturday

Jay Ward

Watching English films in foreign countries

Watching television sideways

What a Wonderful World

Wildlife documentaries

Window boxes

Wireless Internet access

WOMAD Festival

Working from home

X. Xylophone playing of Sir Patrick Moore

Y. Muhumad Yunus

Z. Zebedee and his sons

Recommended reading

Websites to visit

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

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IT IS JUST YOU

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