A humorous and insightful blog about greeting cards (including rude birthday cards and other silly ones).

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Judging by the number of people in the waiting room at my local medical centre I visited recently,...

Ageism is rife in the world. I’m not surprised. There are a lot of us old buggers around. I’m in my mid-60s and our age group is rapidly...

The kids are whining, the cat’s puked up a hairball on the carpet, there’s a sock in the bathroom sink, a lego brick in the teapot, and...

There are a million things a dog can’t do. It can’t jump into your car and take the kids to school. It has no idea how to mow the lawn,...

I admit it. I stole the line from someone else. From a chimp, to be precise. The original joke was: ‘Dad, do you know the piano’s on my...

We Brits don’t do things by halves when it comes to Christmas. When you suffer eleven and a half months of sheer drudgery and the...

There’s a terrible disease going around at the moment. You’ve seen it in all the tabloids, websites and social media. Chances are it’s...

You could write something like ‘Happy 60th! Enjoy your day!’ (Must have exclamation marks.) Or ‘Have a great day!’ Or maybe something...

If there’s one thing in the world that will make you look a fool, apart from proudly striding out of your home and onto the train to work...

Where do funny ideas come from? A view from a greeting card publisher of humorous cards of where ideas come from.

Us men are rubbish when it comes to buying cards. It must be something in our genes – and not just in our jeans – that makes us different...

Poor old Dads. While Mum and the kids take centre stage, Dad is faffing around in the background trying to do something useful like...