Our questioner today has a problem getting started. With anything. But in particular with their cushy, and notionally self-starting job.
How can they be more motivated at work?
We'll tell you how...
Episode 73: Afternoon delight
Our questioner this week struggles with the asymmetric horn. Not some kooky-but-truculent species of goat. If only t'were so simple.
No, they are vexed by a relationship mismatch of morning and evening friskiness.
Can we help? Why of course...
(Apologies for some auditory oddities on this week's episode. We think it's just lost souls howling through the galvanic ether, but it could also have been Roger's dodgy WiFi)
Episode 72: Workin' 9 to 5
This week we soothe a troubled soul whose partner has a morning routine (fannying about) that fits poorly with their own need to work from home (actually work). How to marry up two mismatched schedules, and not annoy the teats off one another?
How, indeed...
Episode 71: Everybody get up
Do you struggle to get up in the mornings? To haul your scarcely-animated cadaver out from under the eiderdown, becoming vertical and mobile long enough to participate in the indignities of modern capitalism?
Are you just a bit groggy of a morn?
Our questioner is. Here's how we fixed it...
Episode 70: Sweet like chocolate
Gifts are a fraught business and this week's questioner doesn't want to appear churlish, but when family insist on piling on the cocoa solids, but they'd just love something milky-sweet, where do they turn?
Why, to us of course.
Episode 69: Father of Mine
Our questioner is cut off from their father, but finds that friends don't support this in a way that they would like. What to do? Some sensitive answers from us, as ever.
Episode 68: The Sleep of the Damned
Our questioner can't get any sleep. Their presumably-beloved wive tosses and turns in the night, hampering sleep and building a terror of the night itself. But can we help? Yes. Of course. That's the whole point.
Episode 67: Turn on the News
This week's questioner wants to keep up with the news, but also wants to stay sane in this, the year of our lord 2018. How? How?
Episode 66: Daytime Drama
Our questioner has a drama-addicted colleague meddling in their life in the guise of legitimate concern. What can be done to ameliorate their dramatic diddling before it causes a genuinely embarrassing incident? We present three bold and distinct options.
Episode 65: Eight Line Poem
What if poetry, but bad? This is the problem facing this week's asker, who is faced with reading terrible poetry at a loved one's funeral. How to get out of this heady combo of bad art and awkward social issues? Of course, we will fix it.
Episode 64: Bye Bye Baby
This week's questioner has a problem with the ol' internet dating. Specifically: what do you do when you're propositioned to bear the children of a friend of a friend behind their wife's back via OKCupid? Obviously everyone's been there, which is why this week's team of fixers have such good advice.
Episode 63: Meat is Murder
Back again with an intriguing mystery fixer (they themselves are the mystery, they do not fix mystery, though they could, if they chose to, which they do not). This week, our questioner has a particularly vegan family with some particularly annoying proselytisation. Our fixee would eat flesh, they would seek to end this via the medium of Facebook memes. Faced with this onslaught, can we fix it? But of course.
Some housekeeping
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Episode 62: Sleep
Our questioner's significant other won't just go to sleep, and it's causing a strain on everything, from relationships to endocrine systems. With all sane solutions attempted and played out, where do you turn? Why, of course, to us.
Read MoreEpisode 61: Mandatory Funtimes
The mandatory fun day at work. You know the one. Only the people in marketing like it, and even then only the ones with functional knees. What to do then, about this display of forced jollity and corporate bonhomie? What to do indeed?
Read MoreEpisode 60: (S)he's in Fashion
Clothes! Basically mandatory, and yet so little help is provided to know what to wear, how to wear it, what even is clothes, and so on. This week's questioner wants to know how to get a personal style, and we are only too happy to help our listeners be happier and less naked.
Read MoreEpisode 59: Baby Baby
Our questioner is jammed really far too full of live young, and wonders what entertainment options are open in so precarious and fragile a state - a state that we, as fragile and largely immobile members of society, feel fully-equipped to address.
Read MoreEpisode 58: Sweet Charity
We all want to do our bit for charity, but there are so many worthy causes. How do you decide who gets your money? We have three very different methods to choose from.
Read MoreEpisode 57: Nookie
This week's questioner fears for their friend, who is suffering some sadness from sowing their wild oats. What advise do we have for the serial shagger, the serial sex-doer, the carnal continuer? Let's find out!
Read MoreEpisode 56: Travelin' Mam
This week's question is a British classic, involving as it does bureaucracy, extended family and social awkwardness. How to get a non-passport-having mum to Bulgaria in six months time without her finding out? Note: not a cover for human trafficking this time. We've learned our lesson.
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