Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

If you like good food and you also like the BBC then this skill may be for you. Unfortunately the recipes aren't spoken by Stephen Fry or any other beloved BBC person - but the A-lady does a pretty good job. Happy cooking! Even better… happy baking!

After a lot of waffling about how to set a location for this skill, you may then want to rouse yourself for the actual demo about half way through. If you're still asleep towards the end, you'll most likely be rudely yanked awake with a bit of 'It's Raining Men'.

This one's a keeper. Grab a victim or two (in this case I nab Faith) and each try to estimate the nearest number in answer to random questions. You may be able to guestimate well if you haven't spent your whole life watching, say, a popular 80s TV show.

Penny Golden ([email protected]) is back with two skills to inform and bemuse. Affirming aphorisms to female siblings are followed by entertaining and educational daily doses of data on random topics. Enjoy!

This really sweet skill simply serves up one joke or riddle after another. That's it. Great for all the family and nice sound-effects too. Here's hoping it knows hundreds of humorous hum-dingers rather than just a handful.

Big thanks to Andrea Barker ([email protected]) who brings us a quick demo of asking the A-lady for things to try and then compares that to adding the 'Alexa Things to Try' skill to your daily flash briefing. A brilliant way to activate new skills in these days of enforced hard labour - well, in-store skill enabling at least.

Find out whether the tide'll be in or out with this top-notch tidal skill. We then revisit Big Sky because I still think it's the best weather skill out there. After that the Beach Boys add some much-needed pizazz.

The developer of yesterday's skill, Raul Barcos, today brings us a demo of the brilliant Amazon skill; Cleo. Cleo is a clever way that the amazing Amazon has found to crowd-source language learning for the Echo so that, when it hits a country, everyone has an understanding Echo to enjoy. Check out Raul's work at  raulbarcos.com or contact him via [email protected]. Thanks Raul.

Today we take a look at a skill which is your average five-question, multiple-choice trivia game, but with far-above-average sound-effects. If you have difficulties finding it in the skill store then search for 'Raul Barcos'. If you don't like the egregious over-use of hyphens in episode show-notes, then please send in your skill demo contributions ([email protected]) and I promise not to use a single one in their descriptions - honest!

Showing us a skill of relaxing meditations ranging from 40-60 mins long - and you could always set an A-lady sleep timer if you didn't want them to run that long of course - Andrea Barker ([email protected]) is back to the rescue. Y'know if it wasn't for Andrea I'd be in serious shtuck right now so three cheers for Andrea and others, please do send in your demos to [email protected].