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I don’t quite know how, but the supermarket is taking me for a mug. I’m cutting up my loyalty card

After years of chasing points, I now have enough olive oil to bathe in. And I just know that someone in the head office is laughing at me, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

I’d almost given up caring about West Brom, but then I saw a 70-year-old photo, and it all came flooding back

The picture of my mate’s late mum Betty on the terraces with five other women, wearing their scarves, reminded me of why we stay loyal to a football club

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Good Drinker; The Blue Flames; Exit Stage Left – reviews

Adrian Chiles gives entertaining advice on moderation, AM Burrage’s spooky short stories get their dues and Nick Duerden tells of the tolls of pop stardom

The Guardian - UK

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Practical hacks for our slippery specs

Letters: Readers Joe Oldaker, Dr Keith Seddon, Harold Somers and Stephen Bradley share tips for keeping spectacles in place

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Chiles recalls Roy Keane's personal advice on why he should reduce his drinking

Roy Keane had been teetotal for 10 years by this stage

Irish Mirror

A first drink and a lifelong friendship on a school exchange in France

Letter: Susan Laborde writes of her love of wine and all things French in response to an article by Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Chiles shaken after doctors 'fatal' drinking warning

"I was drinking around 100 units a week"

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I spent an afternoon writing my own name. It was lovely until I started overthinking it

Who’d have thought that signing 2,000 books could be so relaxing, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

I recently saw something in a petrol station toilet southbound on the M1 that I can never unsee

Almost all the public toilets in cafes, restaurants, pubs or services are really unpleasant. How hard can it be to keep them clean, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

So many people have written to the Queen since she died. How do they find the words?

What do you write to someone who will never be able to read it? I certainly didn’t know after my grandad passed away, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

When food in Europe is a matter of taste

Letters: Daniel Monti on the variety of international cuisine available in Turin, and Diana Simmonds on eating Italian food for five weeks in a row

The Guardian - UK

After three weeks travelling in Europe, I’m calling it – British food is the best

In Italy all you get is Italian and we win hands down on variety. That is, until you stop off at a motorway service station, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

We all tell kids going off to university they will have a brilliant time. But being a fresher can be dreadfully hard

The young adults heading off to college for the first time are expected to have fabulous fun from day one and it doesn’t take much for disappointment to set in, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

I’m going through hell for the sake of art. Tolstoy or Henry James could learn a thing or two

There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim

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I was being yelled at by a group of lads driving past – then they got their comeuppance

I don’t usually enjoy being heckled in the street. But this episode left me wanting to punch the air, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

I’ve been loving the women’s football – but could mixed matches be the future?

Once the Euros are over, maybe we should try two teams, each consisting of six women and five blokes – and see what comes to pass, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

I’ve always worried about everything. But has my tortured thinking become a form of self-harm?

I’ve never understood why people choose to hurt themselves but now I wonder if wallowing in worry is my version of that, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

The closer your football team gets to glory, the less likely you are to get a ticket. That can’t be right

At Wednesday’s Europa League final, more than half the tickets have gone to corporate guests and others with no skin in the game. These lanyard-swinging, dad-dancing day-trippers are denying genuine supporters their big day out

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I fill awkward silences by babbling – so what happened when I had to film myself on a walk?

For a new show it was just me and my camera. Given my past interviews, I am too terrified to watch the results, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

How do I know I’m getting old? My children worry about me – and I’m exhausted by half-time

First came the interview with Saga magazine, then an anxious call with my daughter. Could these be the signs of age creeping up on me, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

There are two things I find impossible - sitting still and focusing. So how did I fare at the theatre?

Jerusalem is an excellent production. But sitting quietly through a play is a challenge for the neurodiverse, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Football needs more than a new regulator to save it from itself

The government has decided that the English game’s governing bodies can’t spot ‘fit and proper’ people to run football clubs. I have two questions to help the new Iref show bad owners the red card, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

I have a urinal in my flat and it has changed my life – so why are people appalled?

Some have been known to retch at the sight of it, but I am a great enthusiast for urinals in the home. Mine has pride of place beneath the West Brom crest, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Grime, chips, tea and fresh air. There’s nowt fancy about ferries, and that’s why I love them

On a trip to the Isle of Man, I marvelled once again at the joy of being aboard a boat, which I’d take over flying or the Channel tunnel any time, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Having a quiet drink, I eyed a group of lads nervously … and then I saw their manbags

The Staffordshire posse were trying hard to exude menace. I found them rather sweet, writes Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles

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