Sideswipe: April 28: Pricey pie

For almost 150 years, an unassuming still life painting was housed inside the walls of a private school in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Painted on two panels of oak hardboard at Woodford academy, the still life depicts an abandoned feast, dishevelled tablecloth, a half-eaten pie and a toppled silver goblet. Decades of damp and grime had dulled the varnish and obscured any signs of a signature. When restorers removed the varnish on the artwork and spotted two microscopic signatures hidden on a knife's blade in the painting, they realised this was no ordinary cleaning – they had in fact discovered a valuable 17th-century painting by Gerrit Willemsz Heda, son of the famous Dutch Master still life painter Willem Claesz Heda. It may be a father-and-son collaborative artwork. The work of Heda senior is typically valued in the millions of dollars.

Millennial slang terms

The word doggo encapsulates an entire subsection of Millennial lingo. To people who speak this language, doggos (a.k.a. dogs to everyone else) bork, blep and sploot. Doggos can be fluffy (floofs), little (puppers) and loud (boofers). The child-like speech is meant to mimic how dogs might sound if they could speak to their humans. The slang gained steam online in the 2010s, specifically through the Facebook page Dogspotting and the Twitter account WeRateDogs. Before the internet era, lying doggo was 19th-century slang for "lying low" or "keeping a low profile", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Inflation is rampant

Or is it just a duopoly taking the piss?

Putin toilet roll

Loo roll has become political. With Russian leader Vladimir Putin being spawning and array of different toilet tissue designs. Some of these designs have Putin khuylo! in Cyrillic printed on them which roughly translates as "Putin is a d*ckhead", which originated in Ukraine in 2014. This phrase has become a protest song and is very widespread throughout Ukraine among supporters of Ukrainian sovereignty. When the war finally ends, these will probably be in every hotel toilet in Ukraine.