Filled with humour and almost real-time practical advice about the weekly price movements of supermarket food, it is a plain-speaking, practical austerity cookery guide – quite literally how to feed yourself and your toddler on £10 a week, in ways that are healthy, tasty and, importantly (to relieve the tedium of baked beans), varied.
The background: Having Antony Hegarty as our temporary editor this week at guardian.co.uk/music has been an education because the acts he's chosen as New Bands have been so varied and vital – and from areas that even a column such as this, with a history of lionising the esoteric (and we don't mean Lady Gaga), might consider arcane.
Equipment and format aside, the genesis of a comic and the way it all comes together is also hugely varied.
At the time, there were protests from the far right, most notably Jean-Marie Le Pen of the Front National, who complained that the varied ethnic origins of the players meant that this was not really a "French" team at all.
Each will have their own reasons and they will be as varied as they are for the men who are deciding to step down.
Her pieces varied in mood from lacerating and shocking to playful, comical and celebratory, but for most of her career she grappled with that brutally simple, tortuously difficult question: in the face of so much cruelty and suffering in the world, what are an artist's ethical and political responsibilities?
The accommodation prices analysed by the Guardian varied in the services included in the package, the length of contracts and special offers.
Alongside selling collections of loose tea and teaware, the site displays 30 recipes for cocktails as varied as an oolong negroni to an Earl Grey martini, and for those looking to jazz up their meals, there are recipes for a jasmine creme brulee and tea-smoked duck.
And the rides are as varied as the people: giant artics, luxurious Audis, knackered old vans.
I am almost entirely sure that the comments underneath this article will be as varied as those underneath my original post.
The reality, alas, is more mundane and varied.
