Thanks to an improved relationship with Amazon.co.uk, you can now browse and buy tens of thousands of books, CDs, DVDs, and other bits and bobs right here on sjhoward.co.uk, at sjhoward.co.uk/shop.

Every item reviewed on this very site over the last (almost) four years is available, with a snippet of the review included to help you make your choice. And, if none of those tickle your fancy, everything else in the Amazon catalogue is also available – and all at the low prices you love, and with the renowned Amazon customer service you expect. Links have been added on sjhoward.co.uk/work to ensure that every time a book is referenced, a link to buy the book from the new sjhoward.co.uk/shop is on hand, and it’s also been added to the fabulous sjhoward.co.uk toolbar.

Because of the expected revenue this development will produce, I’ve been able to reduce the price of every product in the sjhoward.co.uk merchandise range, and also introduce a new product to the range: The umbrella (impressive, eh?!). So there’s somewhere else to dispose of your disposable income.

And to promote these new services, along with a few of the older ones, little ‘tips’ have been added to the bottom of all posts. These change dynamically from an initially selection of eleven to help keep them fresh.

Now, as far as I can think, that should be the last of these parochial self-serving nonsense posts for a while, and normal service should be resumed tomorrow. Hopefully.