Mike

Why?

Why not?

Dear Keir Starmer. Go fuck yourself you fascist prick. I will beat the living daylights out of you before I carry your ID card.

Challenge of the day: Put California Dreamin' by The Mamas & The Papas on - and then just sing or mime one part only. Lead or backing only.

Dealing with mental health issues throws up the odd curve ball. Which is why I had to pull over the car to have a good cry at the lyrics:

"So I thought that if I piled something good on all this bad

That I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from Dad."

Fuck life's hard sometimes.

You know that look you sometimes get from your partner when she comes home from a long day at work to find you skanking round the kitchen to a Japanese ska band? Just me then...

Remember when doughnuts used to be good? When was the last time you had a really good doughnut?

It's the careful equal apportioning of blame to the EU for Trump's madness that infuriates the most.

Don't worry, I'll get my next attempt right but in return you have to explain to my family it was just I didn't want to work...

Dear Labour & Keir Starmer, thanks advising me that you know better and that my decades of crippling depression, 3 suicide attempts and years of feeling numb on antidepressants and therapy were all pointless because it's all in my head and I was apparently just pulling a fast one.

The BBC have this in the top headlines section of their rolling coverage of Trump's latest tariff debacle.

If only he hadn't already screwed over the world's poorest in a vain and pointless attempt to appease the tango fascist.

Quote of the day, two English women near the Porte Cailhau: "Love, your tits are 'out out' this evening aren't they". It's 5:30. I understand why the French have a complicated relationship with English tourists.

I know nobody asked for this but my top tip for a successful dinner party is: Make the pudding something you had as a kid. I recommend Jelly & Ice Cream but Angel Delight or even Bananas in Custard. Guests will laugh, and then devour it, and it will be the thing they remember from it.

I love that Trump is too lazy to come up with his own tariffs. It's his big economic idea and his entire plan is reciprocal trade tariffs, or "copy off the other kids".

GWR have 'toilets' but the state of them, they're definitely in on this game.

Family, partner, mates all forgotten it's my birthday today - so I thought I'd spend the day doing nice little things by myself. An hour in and the motivation has run out. Currently sat on a bench watching the sea trying to justify having left the house.

Cue wild applause...

While we're at it if you ring a call centre and they ask if there is anything else they can help you with - don't ask for the winning lottery numbers. They hear that one about 15 times a day...

No. A combination of awareness of my own gluttony and an Irish/Catholic "you can't leave the table till you clear your plate" upbringing means I know I'm going to eat the whole thing every time.

Never thought about it that way, but it's a really good point.

Sat watching the FA cup and can't help but thinking this match should be a replay at Tottenham except the FA can't be bothered with their own competition anymore.

Judging by the looks I got it appears the people of Bordeaux were really not ready for the sight and sound of me singing along to Layla in traffic. Is a car sing-along not a thing here?

Neighbour just came back from Portugal. Brought bags & bags of tinned fish back with him. Never had anything this good from a tin before, where has this been all my life?

And yet the amount of food I eat is apparently "bad for me". There's no pleasing some people.

My partner is sick with the flu. So far all I have heard today is requests for tissues, soup and vague threats that if I've drunk the wine we selected for Christmas day by myself she's going to kill me...

I may have to go shopping....

I wish I loved anything as much as cats love empty boxes.

Given I can't get mine off the furniture most days I think we should be applauding @guinnessisacat.bsky.social for how much brewing they get done in a day.
Did enjoy the press blaming social media for "getting girls to drink Guinness" for the shortage.

So many creators writing and talking about French wine on here are they all seem to live in Provence. I feel very old school over by Bordeaux.

For clarification I mean everyone in the political sense of left and right. A lot of people, myself included left Twitter because of the right wing hate & trolls. I have simply found having come over here that the discourse isn't any better it just has different targets.