I’ve spent most of the week at Mum’s, it’s been a tricky week and the news in the world hasn’t got much better, so this is just going to be ‘nice’ links, because I need all the joy I can get at the moment.

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It. (NYT gift link) This sounds so sensible and so Swiss….

‘The whole town was out after’: Grimsby fans still in disbelief after beating Manchester United. Who doesn’t like to see Man U suffer?

My favourite childhood outfit: ‘The coat I inherited from Grandpa became my teenage refuge’. I still have the brown jumper that my Grandad gave me. I had another jumper knitted along the same lines. They are my favourite clothes and in winter I wear them all the time, they are the oldest clothes I own.

You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop buying kitchen appliances? Ma says that this is me, the woman with two instant pots but I do use all my gadgets and crucially, I’ve not bought a new gadget this year. Also Paul is wrong about the air fryer. Ma has this one and I covet it, it’s so handy.