Chris Gillies

Commonwealth Games tickets opened up today for Glasgow residents so I thought I'd have a look. To attend the only athletics session we'd be able to make would have cost us over £150 as 2 adults and a child. For the cheap seats. Guess not then.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Have been physically and mentally exhausted lately and surrounded by grief so decided to treat myself to a solo cinema trip.
Went to see Bring Her Back 👀
That was a choice!
Talk To Me is my favourite horror film of recent years and this by the Phillippou brothers is possibly even more devastating.

My newly turned 6 year-old just told me she had a hypothesis.

-OK, what's your hypothesis
-it's an idea you can test out
-very good, but not what is a hypothesis. What's YOUR hypothesis?
*she thinks for quite a while*
-I can do science because I have long arms. That's why babies can't do science!

Worth knowing about. Nothing free is really free.

Found this so hard to believe that I had to check IMDB and apparently Asim has an uncredited role in the first film. I have no memory of this though.
3 alumni in Wonka of course.

He was clearly devastated when he got voted out first on I'm a Celebrity.

Yeah, pretty sure it was the sweary one the last time I heard it on 6music a few months ago.

Just fixed the tumble dryer with a £4 part. Feel like a god!

Did one day in the edit with Yentob so that was an experience! He was very nice to me and very interested in all my opinions. Admittedly I think it was because he was trying to play me off against the director, but still!

To give an idea of how long it is since it rained in Glasgow - I opened my 5 year-old's blinds this morning and she asked "Why is the sky doing that, Daddy?"!

Absolutely loving the predictive text feature on the new Outlook update that thinks I want to write Christmas every single time I go to write my name.

In 2015, the UK was the leading country on LGBTI human rights in Europe according to IGLA-Europe, with 86%.

In 2025, we have dropped to 46%.

My daughter's just started getting into Deadly 60, Operation Ouch and Horrible Science on CBBC. They're such well made programmes and I don't think there's anything remotely like them on the streamers. Maybe these things will come but I'm not so sure.

The streamers are definitely pulling their weight with UK dramas now (and I'd be surprised if none of them wanted to make the equivalent of It's A Sin these days) but what about everything else? What about quiz and panel shows? Current affairs? Documentaries that aren't true crime or celeb based?

As is only right!

She also on the same day said "I look cute every day, but today I look the most cute I can be!"
Need to learn that confidence!

Still getting over my 5 year-old daughter the other day saying "Daddy, when I'm older, can you send me this song so I can remember listening to it with you?" - almost ended me!

They call me the phlebotomist's nightmare. Like getting blood out of a... man with very hard to find veins.

trans women are women
trans men are men
nonbinary people are nonbinary
and keir starmer is an absolute fuck

Also got tickets for Self Esteem at the Barrowlands and Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright in Edinburgh in the past week so much to look forward to!

Tickets bought for the first @allodarlin.bsky.social gig in Glasgow since 2012 at the much missed Captain's Rest.
Very excited!

Not sure it's a great thing when the nurse who's just meant to be taking your sutures out is excited to show you off to the student nurse as a classic case of 'red man syndrome'.
Basically my whole body is a rash right now. What fun!

In a world of so much TV I rarely rewatch anything these days, but this is an exception. It's such a comfort as well as being genuinely hilarious. Jamie Demetriou is also the greatest physical comedian of his generation. There's also great evidence of that in the sketch show he did for Netflix.

It was a lot funnier than I was expecting. There's something surprisingly funny about the faces people pull when trying to stifle a laugh. Harriet in particular.

Have only watched one so far but it's very fucking good. It does take it out of you emotionally though.

Things You Should Have Done - Series 1: 3. Learn to Cook Pancake day is a highly sentimental time for Chi. Dave confides in Lucas about his health scare. They vow to make the most of every moment, and that begins with pancake day.

In a just world the whole nation would be gathered round their TV sets watching the pancake day episode of 'Things You Should Have Done' every year.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001wryd

Top tip if you want to feel old. Why not get a phone call to confirm your hip operation while you're at that very moment ending a Teams call about your will.

I guess an indication that we may have left it a bit too long between cleans is that I now find it quite jarring being able to see what's in the oven!

It's a very long time since I've watched The Elephant Man and my memory of it was that David Lynch had directed it very 'straight'. Didn't take long to dissuade me of that!