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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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All in all, this book isn’t going to set the world on fire but it is a gentle nostalgia trip I’d recommend to around 4 people I know.

It was really interesting hearing about Josh’s childhood growing up in Devon – and I loved hearing about his Grandmother Gin in particular. Not that you need to be a podcast subscriber or listener to find the book entertaining – it totally stands on its own two feet. TV seemed more innocent, not the stream of rubbish like Love Island, Made in Chelsea, Married at First Sight, I'm A Celebrity that dominates our screens now. The death of Diana was a genuinely tragic and shocking event but by time of her funeral had descended into a distasteful grief-fest which much of the population (myself and Josh himself included) felt wholly isolated from. It’s likely his childhood like a lot of us was pretty unmemorable but I would have liked to have known more and also more about his climb to comedy.Ghostwatch: Unlike Josh (and many others) I never thought this notorious dramatized ‘live broadcast from a real haunted house’ was actually real. Even though I appreciated the throwback to the communal experience of pre-internet television, the actual content of the pop-culture didn’t have that ring of recognition for me. I respect the fact that is the main focus but if you start the book talking about growing up and how shows effected you growing up and sort of autobiographical it should continue like that and not sore of fizzle out. I also found the book to have been quite thrown together; lots of juggled writing (lots of mentions of things before their chapter - e. You know when your mate does something really impressive, and you look at them with a renewed sense of admiration?

There's not many times over the past few years that I have actually found myself laughing out loud at a book. and sometimes this means I have to sit on the loo for ages (although let’s face it, sometimes I sit there just to read more of my book! He co-hosts The Last Leg on Channel 4 and Hypothetical on Dave and has appeared on everything from Have I Got News For You to A League of Their Own and Blankety Blank . I’ve never seen most of these TV shows, being American, but Josh describes them in perfect and hilarious detail!It’s really lovely to have a book like this aimed at my specific age bracket as I’m not a traditional 80s, 90s or 00s kid/teenager (having been born mid-decade in 1985) but somewhere in between. An Almost Zero Waste Life is an aspirational book to teach you that being zero waste isn't necessarily about zero, but more about changing the way we see the world around us, how we consume, and how we think about waste.

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