Adrian Chiles

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer. His book The Good Drinker is published by Profile

• Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Craig Kimbrel, pitching

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  Hardly anyone watches baseball in the UK. So why do we keep speaking its language?

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  Struggling with the nine times table? I have a failsafe method

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• A person sitting on a couch holds their foot with both hands.

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  Misery loves company: so allow me to tell you about the agony of my corn

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• A man working in a hardware store wearing a checked shirt and a blue apron, take a product off the wall

  When I want to feel loved, I just go to a hardware store

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  Nostalgia and regret are pointless. So why can’t I shake them?

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  The best filing system? The one where every piece of paper goes in the bin

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• An angry woman raises her hand as a friend grabs a chip from her plate of food on a pub table

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  I can’t stop pilfering from other people’s plates – but don’t even think about grabbing my chips

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  Breakfast, lunch, dinner: there’s no meal I can’t spoil with my desire to get more than my fair share. And it’s been this way ever since I was a kid, writes Adrian Chiles
• A man with a grey beard and hair wearing a burgundy hoodie is using his espresso machine to make himself a cup of coffee.

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  Banter is the last thing I want from a coffee machine. Yet here we are

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  I don’t need full-colour pictures of cappuccinos and definitely not congratulatory messages with my favourite cup. Give me terse clarity, please, writes Adrian Chiles

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    I tried to do a press-up – and had an existential crisis

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    Rose’s Lime Marmalade? Gone. Dark chocolate Bounty? No more. But what about their heartbroken fans?

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    I need to declutter my life. But I can’t even give my stuff away

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• An old-fashioned painted statue of a chef with white hat and kneck-tie holding up a blackboard menu saying Homemade Food: Bostin Beer, Bostin Food, Bostin People

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  I thought my cuckoo clock was amazing, but it’s got nothing on my statue of Bert the cheery chef

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  Installed in my home, Bert is a conversation starter like no other. It usually begins with: ‘What on earth is that thing?’ writes Adrian Chiles
• A menacing pigeon, looking directly into the camera

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  I thought my pigeon curse was lifting. Then it took a darker turn

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  The feathered devils have been looking at me funny all year. And just when I thought my torment might be over, I went round to Mum’s and had a terrible shock, writes Adrian Chiles

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    I didn’t know how much I needed work until I lost it. But now I’ve learned to love Mondays again

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    I’ll never forget the day I tasted roast chicken crisps – it changed my life for ever

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    The AI assistant was offering me any help I needed. All I wanted was a living, breathing human

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• Woman hand touching oven's digital display in kitchenGettyImages-1251818706

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  I wanted an oven with a knob. Instead I got a world of pain

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• Bearded young man in a leather jackets sits on a motorcycle calling on his mobile phone in front of an orchard in winter

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  My breakdown cover was extortionate – and that taught me an important lesson

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• A man drills into a wall

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  At the age of 58, I’ve bought my first drill. Can it make me a new man?

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• A car approaches a huge pothole in the road

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  Surely potholes were never this bad before?

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