The weekend is almost upon us, and while the nation gathers in pubs and living rooms to spout ill-informed opinions and awkward jokes about a sport they have only a passing interest in the majority of the time, here’s Windmill’s Friday Feeling, a football-free salve for the soul.

This (sweary!) article made me laugh so hard I spurted milk out of my nose. And I wasn’t even drinking milk!

Engage children in classic literature with a doll that transforms into a dinosaur - I’ll take 10!

Strange scrapbook story art from David Fullerton here: we like, even if we’re not sure we’d ever want to meet him.

Classic photographs made in Lego. The sort of simple genius idea you see and wish you’d thought of first.

Anyone looking for the next big thing in publishing should stop now: Minotaurs are the new Vampires people!

Hearing Don Cheadle’s massacre of the dulcet tones of the humble cockney in Ocean’s Eleven, you’ll wish he had done his research first here: The Speech Accent Archive, a massive project to record as many different accents reading English as possible. Back in the day I used to want to have an upper-class Beijing-English accent. I’m over it now.

And finally, this song has been in my head for days. And now it’s in yours. Ha!