With "hilarious" Red Nose Day shenanigans afoot all around, I think a lot of us might feel like we need a little bit of comic relief by the end of today. Charity's lovely and all that, but I have to say that I'd rather give my money to one of those irritating chuggers.
Hurrah, then, for a gang of British bloggers who decided to try and relieve our pain by giving us a stream of funniness that we can all enjoy: a funny book.
In just one week, Mike Atkinson and others have compiled and produced a book that features 100 amusing stories from 100 British bloggers. And all the profits from your comic relief go to, well, Comic Relief.
The tome, called Shaggy Blog Stories, is on sale now for £8.96 from on-demand publishers Lulu.com - who have also said they will give their profits to charity. That means a significant proportion of your nine quid goes to save little children, make the world better, etc. What could be better?
There are a few celebs in the mix - Emma Kennedy, Richard Herring and Andrew Collins among them - as well as a veritable who's who of today's British blogging royalty - including Girl With a One-Track Mind, Petite Anglaise, Jonny Billericay and our very own Anna Pickard.
I've had the pleasure of a sneak preview of the contents (OK, I helped out and did some proofreading) and some of the stuff in there is dead funny.
Of course, you could go and get it all off the internet for free. But that's not really the point, is it?
