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Morning all. My status as Cool Uncle ™️ seems assured, but it is exhausting, so I've decided to further develop the role to Long Distance Cool Uncle In The North ™️ by sending him back to his parents. I'm knackered after 3 days. Hats off to all the parents out there.

Oh, I see! Do you get bad jet lag when you travel, too?

Aye. Cracking stuff!

La Bohème was really lovely. My guilty secret, though, is that my favourite piece of music in the whole play is a 2-minute bit from a minor character singing an ode to his coat.

Extra hour in bed mate. Win!

Interval. What a lovely production.

Dinner at the Ox Club, Leeds, followed by La Bohème at Opera North. Proper Belter, man!

I have succeeded by sitting said nephew in a fighter jet. Yay for Cool Uncle (tm).

This is the excellent Criminally Good Books on Colliergate in York if you're interested.

criminallygoodbooks.co.uk

This is my kind of bookshop categorisation.

Nearly accidentally listened to Jeremy bloody Vine. I thought Lauren Laverne was sounding unusual today.

Uncannily accurate.

8-year-old nephew is coming to stay for a few days. I'm working on cultivating Cool Uncle (tm) status.

So it turns out my doorbell rings if there is a power cut. Great.

Ah, his Hans Gruber years.

I've found it too now but thanks for the heads-up! Was puzzling me.

Doqnload feom where, please?

I mean, he's an idiot and a nazi sympathiser at best. Can I also suggest that the cover-up tattoo looks a lot like a wolf in a trap to me? Which can also be shown as a wolfsangel rune, which is - and this will shock you - a Nazi symbol.

You should always assume I'm having a stroke. 😇

News International?

🤣

Ok, our vacuum is knackered. Any recommendations for a good one that can deal with dog hair?

Did you rob the louvre, like?

Trafalgar night tonight in which I eat lemon sole, roast beef, a chocolate ship, and port to drink. I also drink to the immortal memory and then get maudlin about fallen comrades. Happier than it sounds. Mainly because of the port.

Badge of honour.

Thank you. It's solid for sure. I reckon you could build that with the right tools. It's all right angles.

Half build bed frame

Completed bed frame, awaiting mattress

Bed with mattress and a spaniel approving it all.

All done. It can never be moved. I may have overengineered a tad. The dog approves now he can see out the window again.

a book with a picture of a man with a top hat and a mustache on it ALT: a book with a picture of a man with a top hat and a mustache on it

Who robbed the Louvre? There's only one answer

Headboard and footboard of bed upright and with side rails between them.

Stopped for the night. But footboard and side rails done.

Q A headboard leaning against a wall, waiting patiently for the rest of the bed.

One headboard built. Now for a footboard to match.