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Stranded in Glasgow. So went to see the Auld Wives’ Lifts, obviously. Gigantic boulders in the middle of a natural amphitheatre and bog, atop Craigmaddie Muir. Geological formation, I’m not so sure. A spectral atmosphere pervades the place, didnt stay long.
@megportal
Me grandad Herbert Walsh. In his army uniform here but as soon as they found out he was an engineer he was transferred to the RAF. Died in a bomber shot down over North Africa, aged 21. Buried in Basra, Iraq. Never knew his son, my dad.
#VEDay
Fuck Fascism & jingoist frenzy
For the first time ever I got through a full to do list yest:
Ordered bank card.
Got new SIM card/sorted phone.
Bought new work boots.
Few hours pricing records at Oxfam.
Went to Post Office depot.
Bought sardines.
Nikwaxed boots.
Put stuff in loft.
Emailed Salman Rushdie.
First time at Crucible. Excellent crowd, friendly heads. Been to other tournaments & it’s a Barbour hell, lads dressed as farmers, etc.
Not in Sheff.
Thai kid can play. Good clobber too. Shame he didn’t get his 147 but we did see one as we left…
#WorldSnookerChampionship2022
Enjoying Bury Council being skint. Not enough money to send the weirdo fellas in the neonicotinoid buggies to poison everything in their way.
Violas in the curbs, bombweed galore, all very Mockingbird - Walter Tevis. And loads more bees in my garden this spring-summer
I aint much of a twitcher but, I’ve just seen a couple of goldfinch at the top of me street. A blur of colour.
The vibrations of the yellow & red nearly made me spin out.
#birdwatching
Now he's dead, yet another
#TheFall
night appears in Manchester. I'm glad I was one of the few to risk doing it while he was alive. The apprehension of him clattering through the door was there for the whole evening
Had a whirl on
#AnthonyBurgess
's typewriter tonight. Hoping to imbibe some of the magic (and a Hamlet, and some gin).
Olivetti Lettera 25 Portable Typewriter, c.1974.
Design: Mario Bellini.
Short & sweet launch of 'The Ink Trade'
@anthonyburgess
#Journalism
Got an Italian tailored, cashmere mix overcoat for £2 in a chazzer cos there’s ‘whole’s in pockets’. It’s in fact a magnificent shoplifter’s coat - the stash in the lining - which I tried to explain to them, to blank stares.
Gave them a tenner
Today the Office of National Statistics confirmed that over 200 construction workers have died, compared to 61 health professionals.
When will the media finally start reporting the anger of building workers & our families?
#ShutTheSites
#stayalertmyarse
I enjoy a packet of prawn Walker's crisps at lunch time, then I spend the afternoon digging soggy bits from my teeth with my tongue, when I feel a bit peckish. Try it.
#FoodTips
#Foodie
I found Earthly Powers tough going when I read it many years ago, but if you stick with it it has a beautiful payoff towards the end. A work that queries & interrogates; and one which includes an all time great opening line...
#EarthlyPowers40
"When the novel was first published in October 1980, Burgess received a telegram from his French translator, who wrote: ‘It is your Ulysses.’"
New on the blog: Earthly Powers at 40.
#EarthlyPowers40
I saw
#JeffGoldblum
in London once. Crossed the street next to him. All I could think was 'you're fucking massive, Jeff'. However, this statue in London isn't realistic at all. It's too big. They've made him out to be a giant. But he's just very tall.
Wus out gathering sage and this guy popped out from under the new hollyhocks, really quite aggressive and fat and yellow.
We made friends eventually.
#Toad
I live 4 miles from city centre, we now have the annually predictable farce of £35 Ubers, no local taxis, scarce and overcrowded buses.
Invisible hand of the market, etc etc
Like a lot o people, lockdown means I’v got to know my neighbours.
Been doing yer fella here’s garden, today he offered me the chance to become a groundskeeper on a country pile just outside of Keswick.
80% sure it’s make believe, but it’s the type of nonsense I like
I became a Dementia Friend a couple of years ago, just to get clued up and find out if there was any help I could give. We’re an aging society & we all know people who’ve suffered, or are suffering, from dementia.
Now more than ever it’s an essential organisation for many...
People living with dementia face so many additional challenges as a result of coronavirus. It's never been more important for us to understand what it is like to have dementia & to find out what we can do to help in our community. Become a Dementia Friend:
A mate & former colleague hanged himself just before NYE. Mid-40s, 2 kids. Sensitive & talented bloke, often a pain in the arse to work with. Few realised he’d been struggling to that extent
Mental health provision in England is pitiful. Talk to each other might be all we’ve got
Went Prestwich Tesco for the first time in years. Baffling. If you’re gona spend that money why not just go organic? Literally insane prices.
Always an eeriness in there, like you can feel the old asylum rising up beneath the shiny floor, somewhere beyond the too bright lights
Let’s ditch the idea that test & trace is going to be brought in in any functioning way nationally. It is a method of slushing money around to friends & family.
The point from the start has been to let the virus go. Lockdown is disaster capitalism. Political class are untouchable
Mate’s just phoned. He’s sat in a pub in my suburb - Prestwich, waiting for Tommy Robinson to arrive, so he can give him what for.
If he turns up in Prestwich he’ll either be ignored or laughed out of there, guaranteed.
“Haha, nice one Ste, sort yer life out.”
That typa thing
Had a moment of clarity earlier and remembered I still had this all-time smash classic stashed at Picc Recs, for so long in fact that the price is from another era
On the day job today: chopped a starling’s head off, accidentally exposed a blackbird’s nest, saved two frogs and then found this.
The augury, the omens… are not good
So far...
Exhaust fumes, gas leaking from disused mines, microwaves, cosmic rays, too much sun, alcohol, phone masts, power lines, charcoal, coal tar, brown sauce, BBQs, fast food, processed meat, laptops on start up/shut down, mobile phones next to head...
any more you can add?