A cold and wet #stouterday being brightened up by some Brownie Hunter by Wilde Child in the cosiest pub in St Anne's

It's a terrible pic, but on a tour of Edinburgh with work and I'm enjoying this take on the flags on lampposts thing

Some stunning colours on my morning walk today. Love this time of year when it's cold and clear 🥰

Tonight's film

"I'M FEELIN' A LITTLE WOOZY, HERE"

You haven't lived until you've been in a working men's club, played bingo and heard like 100 pensioners getting excited when they call number 69

Me, every time I walk into any room, ever:

A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨

This just came up on my memories, look how happy Chino is to see me haha

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

I've got a £2000 fundraising goal for @swansongproject.bsky.social who enable people facing death to write & record their own song. To create something unique & permanent for yourself & those you leave behind. Please give us a few bucks or a repost or both. www.justgiving.com/page/jon-gom...

Can't believe you're all out there celebrating international men when it's far more sustainable and ethical to celebrate local, homegrown, seasonal men

The Master System was my first games console and it was ace. I almost preferred the MS version of Sonic over the Mega Drive one (almost, but not quite)

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

I was *this* close to bouncing off Kingdom Come Deliverance II & I'm so glad I persevered. I can hold my own in a fight, have Pebbles to ride about on, defeated Tomcat at last & rescuing Mutt melted my heart. That dog will eat better than me (he's having smoked venison I made while I eat raw wolf)

Watched Bring Her Back tonight- a great film with a pretty bleak ending

I love a Christmas horror film! Violent Night, Terrifier 3, Anna and the Apocalypse and Gremlins all tick my boxes for stupidity/gore/festiveness/fun

It's #Stouterday and good lord, this Northern Monk chocolate fudge brownie is DANGEROUS at 8.4%. Fuckin' cheers!

Feel like this pic taken at our wedding sums up our whole relationship hahaha

Forgot Astronoid had a new record out, so having a listen- 1st 3 tracks are great so far, but Stargod (the song) really has an 80s synth influence. It's like they've gone hair-blackgaze. And I think I like it haha

Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.

A hometown fess! (This isn't me, I lived in Birchills in Walsall & only ever went through Bentley on the bus). Also, with a mother called Dot and kids called Tony and Alan and vandalising a Cortina, are we sure this isn't from 1981, not 91?

This isn't even a joke, it's just true. I get constant notifications from r/isitsketch I'm on there so much 😂

Had a fun old time at Damnation, so we've already grabbed tickets for the princely sum of like £32 quid for both (and no more installments until after Christmas!) The line ups are always ace, no doubt they'll smash it again next year!

This kind of thing, along with (dynamic) ticket pricing, etc., was the reason FIFA chose the United States as a World Cup host. Elements of the US sporting experience allow it to exploit fans. Wrote about it here for the Morning Star. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fifa...

They tried to say Bob Vylan- BOB VYLAN of all people- did a nazi salute?! I'm he got damages, bloody hell.

Damnation day 2 was fucking ace- Hidden Mothers, Conjurer bit of Pig Destroyer, Psychonaut, Author & Punisher, Spectral Wound, Amenra and finally got to see Napalm Death- but the highlight were Coilguns, they were fucking nuts, giving At The Drive In but vicious. Lovely stuff.

Unreal first day at Damnation. Cried to Overhead, the Albatross, Castle Rat are ridiculous (complimentary), Meryl Streek was aggy as ever, Orbit Culture crushed, Perturbator was a party, Garea were brilliant- but fuck me, Deafheaven were TRANSCENDANT. Unreal band.

The difference in vibes between these bits of graffiti next to each other is next level

Day 2 of Mini moon in Manc and found some Boddies, can't remember how close itnisnto the original, but it's been a good 20 years since I kast had it! Meanwhile, the good lady wife is on a Vault City irn bru sour (it's lush and looks exactly like pop)

First of 2 nights pre-Damnation and we're at Junior's, one of our fave dive bars. The playlist has been entirely Turnstile and Deafheaven and we're here for it

Now that's what I call a 3 course meal

This has been the most amazing weekend of my fucking life. Got to marry my absolute soulmate, hang out with an amazing bunch of people and had an incredible photographer make us look a million bucks. I have peaked as a human.

Went and did a marriage and that

Today's the day, gonna go be a husband! Alexa, olay Chapel of Love by The Dixie Cups

Came into the office today to this 😂 Also, I'm in here on my own so it looks like I did all this myself just to sit in

Can we ask the monkeys to put those things down

Wife to be just regaled me with a word for word, beat for beat rendition of Butterfly by Crazy Town, do I need a divorce lawyer already?

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Didn't realise this was 2 photos at first and wondered why the heck she was giving it a 10ft high siuuuuu while her team was on an attack

First up this #Stouterday is this lush gingerbread stout by Vocation. Very dangerous, at 8.4%, can't have too many of these this early in the day

Playing KCD2, riding about on Pebbles & got accosted by 3 bandits, 1 of whom was in actual armour with a shield. The fight lasted legit over 10 minutes, my heart is pounding, but narrowly defeating them in my filthy gambeson, trousers and broken boots is one of my proudest gaming achievements haha

Holy shit, by this time next week, I'll have been a married man for like 6 hours

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Settling down for an hour of KCD2 and my plan is to just pick herbs, hopefully learn to make soap so I can clean my clothes and hope that not being a stinking, shit and blood covered Hobo means I can get more than 3 fucking Groshen for the swords I forge and I can't decide if I hate this game or not

Define my musical taste in 8: Svalbard Roxette Fear Factory Black Peaks Guns n Roses Gojira Creeper Conjurer

Looking through old photos to find a pic of mum and dad for our wedding and found this of a roughly 18 year old me (yes, I'm old enough that I had to look at a football league table in the fucking newspaper, and yes, that's a physical photo because it was before the age of digital cameras)

Looking forward to this- Vault City generally come through with their mad tasting beers

Not saying my in laws did a good job of getting me drunk last week, but... (selfie taken by Dan, who is not an in law)

Having a routine eye test & the machine that blows air into your eye makes me leap like 6ft in the air EVERY BLOODY TIME, even though I know it's coming 😭😭😭