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From only having four people in his year at school, to living in a family home where they didn't just not bother to lock the front door, they didn't even have a key. I've got a lot of friends and family members who are super nostalgic for the 90s, and reading this was a look into their brains, but told with the fantastic witticism of Josh Widdicombe. Much-loved comedian Josh Widdicombe tells the story of a strange rural childhood, the kind of childhood he only realised was weird when he left home and started telling people about it. Filled with all the things they never tell you at antenatal classes, it’s a charming mixture of humour, rumination and conversation and is aimed at prospective parents, new parents, old parents and never-to-be parents alike. A compelling, fascinating, and above-all, practical book which will do for men and women's relationships in the workplace what MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS did for their romantic relationships.
This is a book about growing up in the ’90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. Using a different TV show of the time as its starting point for each chapter, it discusses everything from Josh's strange, rural childhood, to the BBC convincing him that Michael Parkinson had been possessed by a ghost, to Josh's belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to what it's like being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol.This comes from someone who is not necessarily a super mega fan of Josh Widdicombe, just someone with a normal level of fandom.
There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).Using a different television show of the time as its starting point for each chapter Watching Neighbours Twice a Day… is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of ’90s television and culture. I was super excited when the book landed on my doormat – and even got goosebumps from reading the chapter titles (which are all named after different 90s TV programmes) – as they brought back lots of memories.
The book was super disappointing though - written through the eyes of 90s TV shoes, which whilst was a good trip down memory lane, loses its appeal after the first few pages if you’re really not that fussed about TV. This started during the pandemic as ‘Lockdown Parenting Hell’ and has subsequently been rebranded ‘Parenting Hell’. 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.And how come no one ever warned Rob or Josh of the sleep-depriving, sick-covering, tear-inducing, snot-wiping, 4am-relationship-straining brutality of it all? However, I am over six years older than him (he was born in 1983, I was born at the end of 1976) and here it really shows. One evening my husband thought I must be suffering more than usual as he could hear me ‘crying’ in our en suite.
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