Nick Barber

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OVF has gone into knee-jerk meltdown. Time to avoid it for a while.

90 minutes of masochism ahead watching the Vale on telly.

The worst advert I’m seeing at the moment is the £1 special minted royal coin - for £100. Erm, no. It’s bad enough that the reptile paedos have their mugs on it.

I struggled with it too.

I caught the end of that after the Macc game. Much more entertaining.

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Well done Macc - it wasn’t to be, but at least they didn’t get stuffed on a quagmire of a pitch.

I once saw her at Crewe station - she’d gotten on the wrong train and was dashing to a new connection. I was somewhat bedazzled in her presence!

Watching the Alice Roberts “Ancient Rome by train” series is giving me severe fernweh.

Morrissey - Make-up is a Lie

Pre-order Morrissey's album, "Make-up is a Lie" (or don’t. This is a competition thing) 💥 stlnk.co/s/5qz3x

In my next life I’m going to return as the Korean equivalent of Josh Gates and hunt down nine-tailed foxes.

Italy showing that they can actually do this cricket thing…

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I rated Can This Love Be Translated? (2026–2026) 3/10 #IMDb

Beautifully shot, dreadfully scripted and paced. Awful.

Trudging on with “Can this love be translated?” purely because I’ve only got a couple of episodes left - but it’s got a terrible script and awful characterisation.

Wigan already getting thumped.

Spent the last half hour passing on emails for a German agent trying to find venues for a US singer-songwriter. It must be something in the air today.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

An ex-colleague who moved into teaching after leaving a high profile legal job came across YC in her work and reckoned she was vile to work with/for. No shock.

….and Bratkartoffeln for lunch 🔥

I respectfully declined that option! The artist in question did ask though, as he & she haven’t played over here for ages and are out of the loop. I’ve pointed him/them towards people who can do that sort of thing.

So far today I’ve chatted on messenger with an Australian cult musician about organising a 2027 tour and designed some social media artwork for a UK musician who’s been nominated for an award. All before midday too.

Anti-Valentines for Hopeless Romantics

For the day that was in it:

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I'm flogging this on Ebay - curious to see if it attracts any attention from Beswick's collectors - ebay.us/m/DMvXv3

I have my pancake mixture ready. That's the most important thing today.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

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I preferred my penultimate choice…

Thankfully now retired!