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...And All That Was Left Was Silence
I am closing the doors here ( Read more... ) -
AaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!
I just got a phone call from my brother. One of the small people at Matthew's nursery has tested positive for the Wu-flu, and they're all isolating for two weeks ( Read more... ) -
Still in the woods
Suffice to say I am not doing well at all - at anything ( Read more... ) -
Numb
Today, my dad would have blown out 78 candles on his birthday cake.. if, of course, he'd made it this far. Even if he hadn't contracted cancer in his late 40s, he might not have lived this long anyway ( Read more... ) -
DOOM
And not the good kind, involving a BFG9000. Here is why I said what I said the other day, according to The Swamp.
So when can we expect to get back to normal? Do we just have to stick out the winter, before Health Secretary Matt Hancock's "cavalry" - a vaccine, mass testing, better treatments - arrives, and everything is fine ( Read more... ) -
It never rains but it fucking hails the size of cannonballs
Sir Sean Connery died, to match Sir Stirling Moss in being a knighted 90-year-old leaving a doomed planet. Some would say they're better off where they are now.
Meanwhile, on the NPC BBC, there are predictions that the best case scenario is that Corona-chan's reign of terror will be over, and we can return to normality, in ( Read more... ) -
They think it's all over...
...and It Is Now, for three of England's 1966 World Cup squad this year. Peter Bonetti and Norman Hunter in April - and now Nobby Stiles ( Read more... ) -
Dr. Jim's Cookbook Experiments, episode 3: Chicken Maryland
We interrupt this post for an essential newsflash from the all-new liberal blog, Voithe of Portland - which is so dedicated to the eradication of "toxic masculinity" that the contributors all write in the same put-on effeminate lisp they talk with.
"Thith, like, literally evil, white thupremathitht, mithogynitht bigot from Notting-ham, England, ( Read more... ) -
Dr. Jim's Cookbook Experiments, episode 2: West Country Pie
Adge Cutler, the founder of The Wurzels, would be about to turn 90 if he'd still been alive today. But he isn't - and though it's perfectly possible he'd have died anyway by now, as not everyone gets to reach such an age - our lifespans missed each other by just over five years. Adge was only 43 when he crashed his MGB on his way home from a gig in ( Read more... ) -
Dr. Jim's Cookbook Experiments, episode 1: Mushroom soup
A quiz question for you all, multiple choice. What is my favourite variety of soup? Is it ( Read more... )