A guide to what's hot and what's cold.
WHAT'S HOT
Sharing dessert One dessert, two spoons. Half the calories and half the guilt.
Higher parking charges for SUVs Only a proposal, and only in the UK. It's a start, though.
Canvassers Getting us into the election spirit. Give them a good talking-to.
Booze while you go blond House of Colour salons offer you a glass of wine with your highlights.
First Borat, then Bruno Sacha Baron Cohen is bringing arguably his funniest creation to the big screen: apparently Universal have snapped up the rights to Bruno, his Austrian fashion correspondent.
WHAT'S COLD
November Longest month of the year after January. We'll just have to stick it out until party month.
Puddle mugging Taking pleasure from swerving into a puddle to douse a pedestrian is the lowest form of schadenfreude.
Bonkers bus braking It sometimes feels like we're travelling on the high seas as Dublin bus drivers struggle to handle their vehicles.
Small print madness A quick look at some of the "terms and conditions" summarised on the Small Print Project (smallprint.netzoo.net) means we won't be "agreeing" so quickly in future.