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Elder statesman of underachievement; brand ambassador for laziness; case study in evolutionary dead ends. Someone once told me I "sound like a fucking Wurzel". This pleased me.
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Things my 8 year old son has asked me on the morning walk to school that I can only really answer with a shrug, today's edition: "Daddy, why are number plates called number plates when they have letters on them?"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What I learnt yesterday is that people seem to wait around 78 seconds between discovering they're pregnant and buying a high chair. That's an impossibly small window to squeeze into if you're at a 2nd hand baby goods fair, trying to sell a high chair.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Mine was a 1982 Citroen GS Club. You could start it with the key or, for maximum fun, the starting handle. Then, wait for the overly complex pneumatic suspension to inflate. The handbrake was a pull out handle where the sterero should be and the stereo a non-functional rats nest between the seats.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Android Auto/Spotify, I'm pretty boring so if I ask you to play a song it's /always/ a safe bet I mean the standard version, not some obscure dub version recorded live in Baku by a tribute act. Just saying.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I'm no photographer but I do love the woods on a bright crisp January day. Next question: Where did my dog go?

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

A little while back my wife picked up some mirror offcuts outside a shop in Bath. "We can make some nice wood frames to go round these", she said. Now, I knew there was no more a "we" in "make some wooden mirror frames' than there is an "I" in "team".

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I'm pretty stupid. I've only just realised the song that goes "I'm all about that bass" (popular on Fun Kids Party radio) is following it with "no treble" not "no trouble". I'm having a proper "holy moly, that all makes sense now" moment.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

It turns out that over the next few months I'm going to need to learn a lot about how cob buildings work.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The NHS ads a right. If it feels wrong, get it checked. After a period of tests and sticking things where they shouldn't be the last tests are in and my 'funny tum' isn't bowel cancer. We're likely heading for IBS (Dr speak for 'we dunno nut it's not gonna kill you, so crack on'l.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

To sue for defamation, Liz Truss has to show "serious harm" (section 1 of the Defamation Act). The more you retweet this the easier it will be for her to show serious harm leaving her nowhere to hide when she doesn't. You know what to do!

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

Dog enjoying a walk in the frost (it's -1 here). After 3 years of owning her, sunny = yes, snowy = yes, cold = yes. Rainy = I'll stay in.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

For all those saying how January is just dull and grey, this was the sky a day or so ago:

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments