Oh my poor lungs. Can we all go back to wearing masks again? I didn’t have a cold for 3 ½ years thanks to lockdown & masking (and people actually washing their fucking hands for a change - that all went out the window, didn’t it?). It was great.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Who needs functioning lungs or to be dressed & out of bed when you’ve had a Morrisons delivery with doughnuts?

Oh good. My covid’s reached the lungs-screaming-and-wheezing-plus-no-sense-of-smell-or-taste stage. 👍

Well what I thought was a cold is definitely not a cold. Either flu or Covid, waiting on some tests arriving to find out which. I ache SO bad. Freezing cold one second, overheating the next. This is nasty.

What a smashing tree. 🍁 🍂

I actually had a pretty good day yesterday, so naturally today has been utter dogshit. Wish my body would make its fucking mind up.

Things you forgot you pre-ordered… 😄

Obligatory shot of action-photographer @frazerdjones.bsky.social 📷

Apparently we had Norfolk to ourselves today.

Day 1 of this bullshit. www.gosober.org.uk/teams/iron-m...

Wait, Ash died?!? 😢

Addresses in the USA are either "20352 Main Street, Bullhorn PA" or "Cheesecorp Head Office, 1 Cheese Plaza"

Addresses in England are like "Cruikshank's Vinegar Baths, 23-27 Whooping Cough Lane, Quessex"

Here we fucking gooooo!

Comeoncomeoncomeoncomeon

This brilliant video by singer Chris Cron deserves its own applause (he’s on Instagram), but it also reminds us how astonishingly good Queen were as songwriters and musicians. The melody, harmony, and lyrical flair are all elite — and this isn’t even one of their Top 5 most downloaded songs!

I think it’s fair to say that the flu jab has well & truly walloped me this year 🫩

New cardie/hoodie/jacket thing. Pretty chuffed with this one 😊 🧶 🍂 #Crochet #Cardigan #HexagonCardigan #HexiCardi

Well, I’m glad I signed up to the mailing list thing a couple of days ago - at least I’ve got some sort of presale option (if the fan club members & other inevitable corporate deals leave any scraps for the rest of us). Really don’t think I could cope with camping though.

It’s almost like they were waiting for our finances to hit the skids lol I’m sure we’ve got at least a couple of spare organs we can sell 😭 @impq.bsky.social

Funnily enough, this one 👇

Oh yes please and thank you #DepecheMode #DepecheModeM

Well, as it actually is now 2 minutes to midnight, I’m off to bed. Nighty night xx

Well look what cropped up in my memories today. 11 years & it’s only got worse. Fuck the lot of them.

Make a band singular: Bro

Kicking back with a bit of Seaside Rendezvous before Iron Maiden Night on BBC2 (that I could watch at any time by, y’know, just putting on the DVD, but we have to take what we can get, right?) What are the odds of me managing to stay awake until the end?

Make a band singular: Thompson

Well, at least one person bought one 😎 🥃💃🏻🪩🐰 @impq.bsky.social #IronMaiden #RunningFree

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

Ooh! Iron Maiden Night in BBC2 this Saturday! That’ll be a great evening of in-depth interviews & obscure archive footage, right?

Can’t wait for the royalties for this to start flooding in as per the extremely legal contract we painstakingly drew up 💰💰💰 😉

Okay metalheads, post a perfect record from the 90s that wasn't a Seattle grunge band. Dave beat me to it for Angel Dust, so here’s 2 others that I couldn’t choose between.

18 bloody years married to this one. Love you Mr J xxx ❤️ @frazerdjones.bsky.social

If any of my #IronMaiden fam is interested, here’s a 2+ hour interview with Bruce talking all things singing with a vocal coach. It’s great. youtu.be/7zy63bs8hEs?...

I don’t have favourites but he’s my favourite.

Well, what can I say… A few weeks ago, Alex/ @judgedewie.bsky.social /M’lud (who I’ve actually met in person for all of about an hour at the @impq.bsky.social live recording) contacted me & asked if I’d like to become the custodian of his Maiden vinyl.

Been to IKEA, put together some furniture, had a good hoover & listened to some records. It REALLY feels like it’s Saturday. Which means… extra Saturday tomorrow!

I'm not a fan of Labour but the pressure put on a working class woman to resign when she broke no laws has been astounding compared with the fact that Sunak and Johnson both broke their own laws and continued to be PMs and cabinet minsters.

No, YOU’VE had too much time on your hands recently 🤪 @impq.bsky.social #toot #IronMaiden #Crochet

New jumper finished 🧶 👍 (Only had to pull out & redo 10 rows of each sleeve 🤦🏻‍♀️)

What the actual fuck.

It will never not bother me that I was one tour too late for the Big Sick Ugly One. Sigh.

I fucking love Taylor Swift. In a world of cookie-cutter gushing faux-fairytale engagement posts, she’s like, “Welp, look at these two lame-ass losers getting married LOLZ”. I know I shouldn’t care about two squillionaires getting engaged, but I just love funny people.

Reform UK would do well to remember that there are many jobs that British people aren't willing to do which is one area where we rely on immigrants. This also explains why Nigel Farage is married to a German.

Updated Anthology series? Yes flippin’ please! 😁

FFS, how did I miss Infinite Dreams?

This is such a beautiful and enlightening collection of articles. I was absolutely captivated.

I was about to be all like, “WTF?!?! How did I never notice this?!?”, but apparently they were only in S1, I was too young to see it on telly the first time around we only had S2 on VHS. So I’m not going nuts 👍

Just spent the last 10 minutes watching a pair of bats having zoomies round the big conifer in our garden. It was awesome. 🦇 🦇