Weekend Chatterbox

Training for 2024?

Call this a morning?

TV: Watched NCIS S1E5... still excellent 
Games: NP2 - Stabbed! My fuckwit of an ex-ally has just stuck the knife in, turning a certain win for me and 2nd for him into mutual destruction just to 'make it interesting'. Cunt. Now I have to find time and concentration enough to re-route 300 carriers... Tids, I may need your services 

Raining cats and dogs here.

Also raining at Trent Bridge. Bah!

Maybe I'll play some video James instead.

Oh, and morning!

A vigorous hoovering has helped purge some of the toxins from my body.

A shower then i think falfels for lunch. Intend to finally do the cayo perico Heist in GTA this afternoon.

There's some good footage of Amy in the Mark Ronson music doc thing on Apple TV+

One country, two systems one giant repression; "speech therapists who had the temerity to write a children’s book about sheep that dared to answer back; they have been charged with subversion."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/08/i-covered-hong-kong-for-decades-now-i-am-forced-to-flee-chinas-white-terror

It wasn't just the Russians planning insane planes...

Glad to hear that you are beating down the chest infection, Chumbles.

Last night the grandkids and their parents arrived at their holiday destination by the seaside between Hadrian's and the Antonine Wall. They had made an overnight pitstop at the other grandparents in Brum and then embarked on the journey north, only sustained by Peppa Pig and Cocomelon albums on a loop 🤪.

I myself have just received 2 deliveries from Jeff as I unexpectantly found myself in need of a number of things outside the comfort of my own home, such as

- 2 pairs of Marigolds and
- a waterproof apron (Royal Worcester Wrendale design)

so that I can finally do the washing up without a) knackering my hands, and b) splashing water all over the front of my top.

- a selection of coffee pods for the local coffee machine

After 3 days of drinking tea I'm fairly desperate.

- a height adjustable laptop tray

Finally I can sit back on the settee and write this drivel without balancing the laptop on top of my lap at an awkward angle.

- a large Dreamies cat treats variety pack
- a metal heavy duty kitty litter scooper with ergonomic handle

Yes, I'm looking after a cat. Allegedly. On my first day I saw neither hide nor hair of this cat. She only comes out at night when all 4 kids have gone to bed, and even then she's a nervous wreck. Recently she's become progressively more curious about me, and I was told that the way to her heart is paved with cat treats. Hopefully we'll reach the stage where I make use of my first class behind-the-ears scratching skills.

Where there's input, there's output, and the lack of a scooper is in my opinion a huge disadvantage in the day to day running of a kitty litter service.

tl;dr: COFFEE I HAVE COFFEE

19/40 and a flat forehead after slapping it repeatedly. I'm bad at this.

Speaking of rugrats, I am decidedly child hostile until I get to know them (once they have finished projectile puking and pooping). I have a murderous reaction to little fuckers who kick the back of my seat on a plane. It became progressively more violent after a 3 year period when I had a dozen long haul flights to the USA, 3 to the Indian subcontinent, and numerous short hauls to European countries and Israel... 



and the second most common horror was ...



The third was the other half of the first one... in the middle of eating the bastard in front reclines their seat, so your drink goes all over your clothes - it's not always a child o



And the list goes oooon...



I grew to really really hate flying and I just refused to fly anywhere after 2008, as the piss poor circulation in my legs made an embolism (DVT) a strong possibility.