May have slightly overestimated 13 year old’s emotional resilience when dealing with concept of a funeral.
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
May have slightly overestimated 13 year old’s emotional resilience when dealing with concept of a funeral.
Premier Inn's voice menu is remarkably stupid, even by the low standards of these things.
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Premier Inn's voice menu is remarkably stupid, even by the low standards of these things.
Trying to get Siri to play Can. Kept playing someone called Ken Something. Apparently it's because Siri pronounces Can as c'n. (It understood Tago Mago). So Feedback Assistant it is, again.
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trying to get Siri to play Can. Kept playing someone called Ken Something. Apparently it's because Siri pronounces Can as c'n. (It understood Tago Mago). So Feedback Assistant it is, again.
My mum’s GP surgery is responsible for sending death certificate to medical examiner, before we can register death. But it’s not happened because ‘both the ladies who do that are off this week’.
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My mum’s GP surgery is responsible for sending death certificate to medical examiner, before we can register death. But it’s not happened because ‘both the ladies who do that are off this week’.
I’m an instinctive atheist, but this morning hoping my mum was right in her faith, and that she’s where she should be.
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I’m an instinctive atheist, but this morning hoping my mum was right in her faith, and that she’s where she should be.
Sitting by my mum’s bedside in what are very possibly her last hours. Open email to an Amazon ad including a book called Not Quite Dead Yet. Sometimes the universe is a twat.
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Sitting by my mum’s bedside in what are very possibly her last hours. Open email to an Amazon ad including a book called Not Quite Dead Yet. Sometimes the universe is a twat.
I know I’ve lived up north a long time, but there’s a bloke on bus in Watford dressed for the alps. Others with hats and shit. It’s barely cold.
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I know I’ve lived up north a long time, but there’s a bloke on bus in Watford dressed for the alps. Others with hats and shit. It’s barely cold.
Keir Starmer wondering how he can plant some stories about how racist he was as a teenager.
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Keir Starmer wondering how he can plant some stories about how racist he was as a teenager.
I’m so fucking predictable.
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m so fucking predictable.
It seems I’ve heard my mum’s voice for the last time.
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It seems I’ve heard my mum’s voice for the last time.
My hot political take is that all this moral panic about Reeves is a) a load of old partisan bollocks, and b) indicative of how truly infantile our political and economic system is.
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My hot political take is that all this moral panic about Reeves is a) a load of old partisan bollocks, and b) indicative of how truly infantile our political and economic system is.
OUP going a bit meta with their word (phrase) of the year.
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
OUP going a bit meta with their word (phrase) of the year.
Trying to work out where will be hot enough but not stupidly so next summer, and not full of arseholes.
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trying to work out where will be hot enough but not stupidly so next summer, and not full of arseholes.
"Speaking outside his chateau in France" is a lovely touch in this story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"Speaking outside his chateau in France" is a lovely touch in this story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Slightly unfair to find this as funny as I do. But not very.
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Slightly unfair to find this as funny as I do. But not very.
I wonder if Reeves is looking at the papers and realising maybe she should have gone for the sheep after all.
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I wonder if Reeves is looking at the papers and realising maybe she should have gone for the sheep after all.
I have a cold which has made the tip of my nose red, like a beano character or something.
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I have a cold which has made the tip of my nose red, like a beano character or something.
Apparently using the word ‘narcissist’ is ableist, if I’ve just read a bluesky thread right. Which is almost funny.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Apparently using the word ‘narcissist’ is ableist, if I’ve just read a bluesky thread right. Which is almost funny.
Don’t know why Badenoch is worried about people losing their salary. At that point they’re probably eligible for benefits and so have become someone else for her to hate, so you’d think she‘d be happy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Don’t know why Badenoch is worried about people losing their salary. At that point they’re probably eligible for benefits and so have become someone else for her to hate, so you’d think she‘d be happy.
When I mentioned in email to my blue Labour arsehole of an MP about university redundancies (wasnt the central point of my email) he said something snide about him not seeing things from an ivory tower.
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
When I mentioned in email to my blue Labour arsehole of an MP about university redundancies (wasnt the central point of my email) he said something snide about him not seeing things from an ivory tower.
People say Glasman has no influence, but fucking over universities was one of his objectives. Because education’s for toffs, or something.
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
People say Glasman has no influence, but fucking over universities was one of his objectives. Because education’s for toffs, or something.
Telegraph front page on the Covid enquiry is quite the take.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Telegraph front page on the Covid enquiry is quite the take.
Trying to get through to NHS number down south. Apart from the number they told me to call asap not working, the most annoying thing is that the recorded message pronounces 'Herts' as 'Hertz'. Worse than LNER not being able to pronounce Alnmouth.
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Trying to get through to NHS number down south. Apart from the number they told me to call asap not working, the most annoying thing is that the recorded message pronounces 'Herts' as 'Hertz'. Worse than LNER not being able to pronounce Alnmouth.
Maybe it's one of those 'leak something fucking stupid so the pragmatic action is more palatable' strategies. Or maybe it's just the PM and chancellor are fucking idiots. Who's to say.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Maybe it's one of those 'leak something fucking stupid so the pragmatic action is more palatable' strategies. Or maybe it's just the PM and chancellor are fucking idiots. Who's to say.