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Calling my retirement cottage Dunloping

When new AND old. And when insufficiently dried between beach trips, too...

Pumps were slip-on, flat, regular shoes around here. Though I love the Welsh word "daps" for plimsolls!

Nostalgic for black school plimsolls, bought a size too big, worn until too small, ending their life worn swimming on a pebbly beach, tugged at by the waves and filling with sand, knocked out on caravan steps.

I don't listen to the radio. Or, in fact, much music outside gigs or researching gigs 🤷‍♀️

The standout act from last night's Loud Women Rebellion London Preview was The Dollheads, three siblings from Las Vegas. At just 18, 16 and 14, they delivered tight, roaring punk rivals twice their age would be proud of. And all that before they're old enough to drink.

They need sponsors. I'd be as relieved to pee in a "Toilet By Greggs" as any.

Congratulations x2!

Berry in a Currls t-shirt and a leopard print t-shirt

Gigging. Not Oasis.

It's true, they don't have much range

SHORK NOOS @gingertotty.bsky.social !!!

"Does Elwod P. Dowd live here?"

YouTube video by SpinalTapVEVO Spinal Tap - Stonehenge ft. Elton John (Official Video)

I continue to feel that Nigel’s intro to Stonehenge is the perfect piece of comic prose writing. It never doesn’t make me gurgle with delight.

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I'm hoping they're still eventually be a backswing towards experienced editor staff when they realise there's not enough good, new "content" to train it on and no resources for oversight 🤞🏻

The one thing you'd have thought generative AI could do well, programming, has led to "vibe coding" which is legit terrible and making a lot of work for experienced programmers in debugging it.

Speaking as someone shortly to be made out of a job writing about AI by AI...

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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

SKREEEEOOOONK!

That's a banger

Yeah, just called two BPCA approved ones for estimates. Should be able to deal with whatever pest (or Babadook) it is 🤞🏻

That bit was The Bear meets Fight Club.

I regret to inform you that M&S is doing Oasis t-shirts. Bad ones, at that

I've got squirrels in my attic (not a euphemism) and, from what I've read, by law they must be humanely captured but can't be released into the wild. So are there massive squirrel farms somewhere? There's squirrel farms, right? 🥹

Seeing V For Vendetta at the cinema in Enfield. In the opening scene, Lewis Prothero mentions Enfield and the entire audience cheered. It's implied that Evey lives in Enfield.
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Oh, that's brilliant 😄

Curséd dust cloud

Someone posted a century-old article yesterday that said something along the lines of "Talk to your wife as you would a friend or colleague. You may find she's quite engaging and may even learn something." So, yeah.

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt

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There aren't any but they could climb the overhead wires. I've got a new roof and insulation, but I bet they got in through next door, which had a loft conversion but didn't repair their soffits. FFS, this is all I need with pending unemployment

I don't usually see squirrels around here. Any idea what to do if that's what it is?

I've been convincing myself that the clattering above my bedroom over the past few weeks had been birds roosting in the eaves but I just got woken by what sounded like all-in wrestling up there, so I'm fairly sure they're in my attic. Think I'd better get a friend over for moral and ladder support 😬