Avaragado’s 2017 predictions – results
Hello, blog fans. I see from my records that I’ve posted here precisely once since I published my predictions for 2017. In that British Bulldog (bank holidays only, if wet in town hall) spirit, I have...
View ArticleAvaragado and friends predict(ish) 2019
Hello, dear reader. It’s been a year, hasn’t it? And soon it’ll be another year. So it goes. I gave up the proper prediction business some time ago, but at a casual wine-faced lunch today I subjected a...
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2019 predictions – results
I’m not entirely sure why I bother, but here we are again. At our semi-annual New Year’s Eve lunch yesterday, it emerged that I was the only one to remember our group predictions from the last gasp of...
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Avaragado and friends get bored/drunk predicting 2020
Look! Look at us all! At yesterday’s lunch I attempted another set of group predictions for 2020, with… mixed results. Perhaps – and you may well argue that I should have learned this lesson by now –...
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Avaragado’s 2021 predictions – results
And so we enter season 3 of 2020, in which the writers dangle the prospect of a return to normality while placing several Chekhov-shaped revolvers on sundry mantelpieces. Before the new year...
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Avaragado and friends predict 2022
I mean, anything could happen. This Tory Cinematic Universe in which we’re all background artistes, with the stars anchored wide-legged and slack-jawed beside poles surrounded by broken crockery,...
View ArticleAvaragado’s 2022 predictions – results
And so the Earth completes another ellipse around the Sun, and New Year’s Day arrives along with its traditions: the concert from Vienna with its polkas and waltzes, the wondering which shops will be...
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Avaragado and friends predict 2023
Well, 2022 was a year, wasn’t it? Two monarchs and about thirty-seven prime ministers. Still we crumble on, watching those Brexit benefits pile up on street corners. On New Year’s Eve the usual...
View ArticleAvaragado’s 2023 predictions – results
Oh, you again. I write after the sun has set on another year but has not yet risen on the new, which is a very long way of saying it’s 6pm on NYE. And it’s just late enough that I’m confident a bunch...
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Avaragado and friends predict 2024
Slightly depleted by Covid, which apparently no longer exists, a hardy group of six gathered at the traditional venue to celebrate the year end and commiserate the year start. The year of oh lord 2023...
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