Archive
Why stop there?
National Lottery minimum age to rise from 16 to 18 next year
— Read on news.sky.com/story/national-lottery-minimum-age-to-rise-from-16-to-18-next-year-12155083
Merry Christmas
T’is the season to be jolly, unless you happen to be Boris.
If you are in search of a distraction from the carnival of despair that 2020 has been, and care to glance into the future, my seasonal short story, ‘Skinner’s Elves’, is back in the kindle store, priced as low as Amazon will let me.
Sunny
We have family in the USA who voted for Biden, and family who voted for Trump. I wouldn’t want to upset any of them, so all I will say is this:
My boy Sunny is not qualified to run for President on four grounds. He wasn’t born there, he doesn’t live there, he’s too young, and he’s a dog. Pity, for he has other qualities that would put him at the head of the field. He’s brave, he’s never dissembled, he’s never cheated, and he’s never told a lie.
Abandoned
We have a very nice, conscientious postperson. She has just dropped my mail through my letterbox. My video doorbell clocked her in at 18:27.
I am not having a go at her, not at all. Nor am I unappreciative of the national emergency. However the decline in the quality of the Royal Mail and Post Office services in rural areas has nothing do with that. It has been continuous for several years. We have been virtually abandoned without apparent concern.
What is the point of a national postal service when its only function appears to be the delivery of junk mail?
What in the world?
Trans man gives birth after using female sperm donor
— Read on news.sky.com/story/trans-man-gives-birth-after-using-female-sperm-donor-11897122
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50707164
This is a sad story, but it reflects on a world I don’t know. I suspect that if I did I wouldn’t understand it.
Furryboots is that?
The reopening of Aberdeen Art Gallery is a good moment to focus on the city’s wider cultural scene, and its great food, drink and shopping
— Read on www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/nov/25/locals-guide-to-aberdeen-scotland-10-top-tips-aberdeen-art-gallery
FFS!
Greta Thunberg named author of the year by Waterstones
— Read on news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-named-author-of-the-year-for-compilation-book-of-speeches-11873143
Biggar all
My thanks to everyone who came to the launch of ‘The Bad Fire’, in Atkinson Pryce, my favourite book shop. Long live the independents. A special nod to Alex and Peter. Long time neither see.
Out today
Today’s the day for ‘The Bad Fire’ AKA Skinner 31, in which an old foe returns in a new guise. The event is marked by a interview with The Crime Hub. You can access it below.
As some are ….
How to be a deeply unlikeable Remainer
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/how-to-be-a-deeply-unlikeable-remainer-20191113190721
And there are more
Five possible explanations for Farage being such a twat
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/five-possible-explanations-for-farage-being-such-a-twat-20191112190695
True
Cat with five beds prefers laptop
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/animals/cat-with-five-beds-prefers-laptop-20191111190671
Understandable
‘I cannot stand that pr*ck a minute longer’ says Tom Watson
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/i-cannot-stand-that-prck-a-minute-longer-says-tom-watson-20191107190531
It was the third bottle of Rioja…..
Middle class drunks press-ganged into becoming Brexit Party candidates
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/middle-class-drunks-press-ganged-into-becoming-brexit-party-candidates-20191104190370
Question
What goes ‘Beep beep. Beep beep. Beep beep’?
England Rugby’s open top bus reversing back into its parking place.
Shame on you, Oliver. As if giving us the Poll Tax wasn’t enough.
I am not in Dis-United Kingdom at the moment. I am in Catalunya which has its own troubles but that doesn’t stop me from being outraged by the shenanigans in our Parliament this afternoon.
I worked in that environment in the eighties when it was populated by serious people and when Oliver Letwin was a twerp in Maggie’s policy unit in Number 10. He wasn’t any old twerp, though, for it was he who recommended to his mistress that she use Scotland as a test bed for the Poll Tax.
That goes to show, rather spectacularly, that he doesn’t always get it right, as he proved yet again this afternoon when the dimwit pulled a stroke which condemns us to yet more Westminster chaos, to the delight of the minority who believe that marching through London waving EU flags and demanding something that was rejected at a referendum is in any way democratic.
Revenge?
I reckon I am an unlucky flyer. I always seem to be in the row in front of the arseholes who don’t know how to behave on aircraft, the middle aged blokes travelling together who think it’s all right to take on a few bevvies of a morning and invade the privacy of everyone around them.
Today the arsehole behind me was around six four. He thought the my seat was a rest for his knees all the way to Girona, while his mates were telling their stories to the whole fucking plane.
My hope is that when we fly back next week he’s in the seat in front of me. I do not get mad, I get even.
Hasty
www.skysports.com/share/11832738
If Samoa beat Ireland without conceding a losing bonus point, Scotland will settle happily for a cancellation and two points.
