Darren

This has been me today, hardly moved from the bed and getting fully caught up on Gone Fishing 😔

Think I need at least another day off, still feel like I have absolutely no energy 😔😔

What a miserable Monday morning 😔 🌧️

Still though, need to get to work

As always, hope you all have a good week

Its Monday, its quarter past 5, and its…not crackerjack, its a return to the daily grind.

Hope you all have a good week 👍

Some really important autistic history in this book, including @autisticadvocacy.org's involvement with the diagnostic changes from the DSM IV to DSM V (many people don't realise there was some input), and so much more!
Always a book I will recommend.

Clear skies at this time of the morning doesnt half give one a gorgeous view of the stars 😍⭐

First shift back at work since the clocks went back

Hope you all have a good week everyone 👍🩷🩵

Well thats a wonderful start to the working week, whoever’s responsible for this, id just like to say F**K YOU! 😡

Hope you’re all good and have a good week yourselves

Another week begins & common sense won out. 😔 1st time in 4 years that ive had to ring in sick, good run while it lasted but after the weekend ive had & how I am this morning, I just couldnt do it

Hope I can limit it to just 1 day to witness the misery that is daytime tv

Hope you have a good week

TRUMP’S PRESS CONFERENCE – MY REACTION Back in April, there was that infamous press conference where the newly apppointed secretary of state for health in the USA, Robert F Kennedy Jr (or RFK for short) made some outlandish claims about…

After showing a few people already and seeing the feedback, I feel confident now in publishing this

My response to "that" press conference last week where Donald Trump took RFK's stance from April, and ran with it

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Another working week begins. Doing the Saturday just gone always makes it feel like a turnaround thats lasted…well…like its non existent.

Hope you all have a good week 👍

Saturday shift, football stuff and blog progress out of the way, now time to finally chill properly

And for that, commandeering the parents bedroom to indulge in more Gone Fishing

“False hopes are more dangerous than fears”

J.R.R. Tolkien

It appears the foreseeable future will be even more difficult for autistic people & their loved ones because of the heinous disinformation coming from the US government &their supporters. We should not need to reiterate the humanity of Autistic people, but here we are, watching as progress is erased

Time to begin another working week, 6 days this time as its my turn for the Saturday shift so yep, its going to be a long one

Mornings are getting darker as well so these gorgeous sunrises are getting fewer

As always, hope you all have a good week 🌅

This mornings trave to work listening, been meaning to get to this one for the last few days

PROVING PEOPLE WRONG As I see it, the situation at the first FA Cup break (7 or 8 games) is a perfect time to judge Shields’s start to the season. And since I wrote my season preview back at the beginning of Augu…

The new blog piece is up, looking at Shields's excellent start to the season

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This morning’s travel to work listening

Time to begin a new working week. Autumn means the cooler nights and dark mornings are returning, at least for me those cooler nights make bedtime a lot more comfortable

Hope you all have a good week

Back to work I go, nervous as heck about coming back but its got to be done

Hope you all have a good week

The final day, a week off awaits after this shift

Also you can tell autumn is coming as the mornings get darker

A lovely bank holiday done with, now just the four day working week to come

Have a good week everybody 👍

Time to begin anothet working week. The mornings are starting to get darker now,mand thakfully its a bit fresher, not as hot.

Also a bank holiday weekend to look forward to 😊

Have a good week everybody 👍

This mornings podcast listening for the work journey

a man wearing headphones is screaming into a microphone and says good morning everyone . ALT: a man wearing headphones is screaming into a microphone and says good morning everyone .

Time to begin another working week, no sunrise or station pic today, just this gif marking 11 years to the day since we lost probably comedy’s greatest ever talent 😢

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2025-26 SEASON PREVIEW, CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC Another new season is around the corner, and one that marks a whole decade since the club’s rescue from Peterlee exile by Geoff Thompson, back then a local businessman who made his fortune th…

Its finally ready, here's my 2025/26 season preview and why I think South Shields are in for an improved campaign this time around

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A murky beginning to what is for me, a 6 day working week this time around

Hope you all have a goodun 👍

Time to begin another working week. Is it a sign if getting older if you enjoy some of the simpler things in life like a subtle sunrise? 🌅

Hope you all have a good week 👍

Book to start this morning, a recommendation from a friend a while back that im finally getting round to

Im not really a superstitious person but noticed this on the metro platform this morning, a sign today could go well 🤞

Another working week commences. Thankfully its cooler temperatures so at least its going to be more bearable

Have a good week everybody 👍