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England. Bloody hell!
David Marsden
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You know, we might just win the World Cup
VAR instigated a retake of my old retake of Billy Bragg’s “A New England”. I wasn’t even born when we won the World Cup I’m fifty-nine soon and all hope I’d given up My wife asks me now ‘Why don’t you be a better fan?’ But all the players I loved at school already failed for Ing-erland I loved you then, and I love you still I bet you’d…
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I think it’s fair to say that Starmer led an authoritarian Labour Party and government that was morally bankrupt and utterly corrupt.
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Starmer anounces another plan for change.
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Little kid saw a sign advertising the purchase of National Lottery tickets outside the corner shop by his school this morning which read: PLAY HERE I tried to explain to him that it wasn’t a kids' play space, but an invitation for grown-ups to play on online game (but nothing fun or challenging like Geometry Dash or Roblox), but where, instead, all you have to do is pick six numbers, and if…
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Eighteen months in and I finally figured out how to make perfect fried eggs.
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Just tried Kombucha lemonade for the first time. It’s really very nice.
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29.5 living. 27 bed.
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Up half a degree inside, one whole degree outside. Pleased to discover that the boiling frogs analogy is false. But we have nowhere to jump. And it’s only getting hotter.
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More bloody bonfires, ffs! Tbf, we our front windows closed and blinds down, but still getting cooling breeze at the back. Stable at 27°C in the living room, 25.5°C in the bedroom. Drinking tea.
The Last Screw
Another DIY victory to add to my ever growing list. Mum had her friendly neighbourhood gardener attach the two blocks of wood to the bench feet to raise it up so she could get on and off. She then decided she didn’t want the bench after all, but it was too high to sit on comfortably for anyone else. The blocks were attached with numerous long screws. Some came out. Some didn’t. Having…
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My neighbour: “It’s the hottest day of the year, a beautiful Friday evening after work, and the start of the Bank Holiday weekend and the school half-term. Everyone is ready to unwind and cool down a little.” Also my neighbour: “TIME TO LIGHT A BONFIRE!”
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Rather a confusing “economic migrants in small boats—good / extremists trying to stop them—bad” story, in the current scheme of things. The deadly plane attack at the centre of Castro's indictment: bbc.com Home - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pz43k99xo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Live at the Counter Eurovision '79
“without the knowledge of your history you cannot determine your destiny” Forty-seven years ago, Misty In Roots played at the Counter Eurovision rock festival in Brussels, in response to the Eurovision song contest being held that year in Jerusalem, and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Less than a month later, Blair Peach was murdered by the British police on the streets of…
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A proud dad moment yesterday. Little kid’s year group had their annual “Dancing with Don” day — learning and rehearsing all morning, and culminating in a performance for parents in the school hall at the end of the school afternoon. Halfway way through the show, my lad took centre stage. To everyone’s surprise and delight, and especially mine and his mum’s, he…
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Normal service will be resumed shortly.
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My @SouthallStories piece has been picked up by @thecanaryuk. Cactuses Never Die : southallstories.uk David Marsden https://southallstories.uk/2026/05/03/cactuses-never-die/
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🥕🌿 Spiced Honey-Carrot & Coriander Soup recipe .
Apocalypse Now Then
Finished reading: In Plain Sight The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies 📚 In a preview to the dramatised television series of his biography, author Dan Davies says: There is not a day that passes where I don’t wonder why I chose Savile. Of all the people to become obsessed with, to follow and agonise over, why did it have to be him? It is a question that provides no answer. The only…
The Magic Faraway Tree
Took my boys to see The Magic Faraway Tree . 📺 I always remembered my favourite primary school teacher reading The Enchanted Wood and The Magic Faraway Tree just before home time every day. I loved the idea of climbing up through the clouds into a new magical land. I’ve had my head in the clouds ever since! My boys both enjoyed me and their mum reading the books to them, too. That’s…
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Little kid came over to me, sat on my knee and gazed lovingly into my eyes. Smiling sweetly at me, he gently stroked my forehead and said: You’re even more bald than I thought!
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Little kid has been finding, photographing and naming plants at school, so we did a little homework this afternoon. He knows what a daisy looks like, but he thought that dandelions were sunflowers. “How does the lion get in?” he asked. Pictured: Red Robin. Dark Star. Purple Archangel.
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I got April Fooled by my 11 year old.
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Apologies for the break in transmission. Last month I went out for a couple of pints with @andyc@mastodon.me.uk and it took me this long to recover.
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Why am I suddenly seeing everyone using the word “revert”?