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At stock cars in Onchan. Came here as a boy with @dudleybutt.bsky.social Still going. A survivor from mass tourism days.

IoMN former sports editor John Watterson has been given an MBE. So well deserved! He’s still working so hard. Cares so much about IoM and sport.

My son had his last day, so far, as a journalist yesterday after 35 years, many as an Editor. Here he is at the start of his career, doing an impression of me when I was young, and at the very end

#Manx actor #DursleyMcLinden was born in Douglas, 60 years ago today.

Is it a sign of too much time alone in the hills when you start seeing faces in the peat hags? Asking for a friend 😉

Dearie me, interrogative determiner fans

Texas Doctor Who? Did I miss a regeneration?

Hangovers are necessary to prevent society collapsing into a drunken, obese, medical nightmare.

I went to three garden centres yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. What have I become?

Solar at 27% is the leading source of electricity this afternoon in the UK. Put the kettle on and make use of the sunshine for your tea!

I've wheelie bin the victim of fake news

Hey diddle, diddle . . . it's happened at last

4 x 4 = 16 you do the moths

I snooped on my boyfriend's Linkedin profile and saw that he uses the word 'solution' as a verb - ie. he boasts about 'solutioning complex business problems.' I'm embarrassed to realise I'm living with a Jake Humphrey-adjacent airhead. Thinking of asking him to move out.

Well, as I’m sure you all know, we mark something important today. Yes: happy 45th anniversary of the thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony to all who celebrate

Been watching Adolescence. Surprised nobody has mentioned the series on the internet.

Prof. JRR Tolkien-illiterate dick Prof. Marie Curie-useless Prof. Albert Einstein-bloody thick Prof. Sir Issac Newton-no idea Prof. Sir Alexander Fleming-twat None of them as clever or as good at golf as Donald Trump. 🇺🇸

It's a scientific FACT that the longest a pun has been funny is 11.5 seconds. Yet still the papers have Easter eggscellent, eggstra etc yolks (jokes) in them.

Who's going to pay my pension? Please breed. www.iomtoday.co.im/news/number-...

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Today I learned that a Douglas shop that sells helium balloons recommends customers don’t drive over the mountain with them because they pop at Windy Corner

Because I'm such an interesting chap, this week in 2011 I noted that petrol had gone down to 138.9 a litre. At the Brown Bobby it's currently 135.9. But snarl, snarl, poor victimised motorists etc