#wordweavers Jan 24: Your MC has to start a new business with their current skills. What do they do? Not a chance. My MC is useless.

So trying to sate my #traitors need with the Irish version. I think it will be pretty good Siobhan McSweeny seems ot be pretty good at this. Although I think they have not watched the UK version. Getting one member to choose who gets sent home* straight away is cruel. I love it. *I still think […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYH2Vgc-K54 Reminded of this today. It is a wonderful cover. Playing into the cheesiness of the song, but also bringing some muse rock to it.

I don't know why I watch Industry. It is rather like "The Apprentice - what the useless scum did next". But then, I still watch. I must stop.

#traitors Final! So good.

People who complain about there not being good music these days - the YouTube playlist I am still going through (!!) has music that is old, new, covers, originals. And it is all superb music. There has always been fantastic music, and today is no exception. And today we can access so much of […]

"Well, I've been afraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm gettin' older, too" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7-PYtXtJM&list=RD0a_vpigwDb4&index=21 Sorry, I am getting all the feels here. This is one of the most […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_ggTw4lhA&list=RD0a_vpigwDb4&index=17 And the castle can never be built again, no way. This is one of those songs that never gets old. And the video is perfect - silly, but also, perfect.

I think, more than ever, we need the Fool in our politics. Not not the idiot. We have a surfeit of them. The person who will tell the truth to power, without it being a risk to themselves. Well, not an immediate risk, or not just for speaking the truth. SML seen to do this, to an extent in […]

If you are looking at doors or windows - don't use Anglian. We had a back door fitted by them. They have already had to be back once because they left a hole in the wall. They need to return again, because there are gaps, so the wind is blowing through. Not impressed.

#writerscoffeeclub ~ There’s satisfaction in crafting a good sentence. What satisfies your writer's ear? There is not one thing. It is a whole lot of things working together. The alliteration of words, the rhythm of the sentence. The context of that rhythm with others. The word choice - where […]

Wow. Cult. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e59zrxrypo

#traitors - I hate you. You cannot leave that cliffhanger!

So I was talking to some colleagues in the US and they are quite worried about the coming weather. So thoughts with all those in the US who are in the sights of the storm. Keep safe. Hope you are all fine.

As trickle down isn't working, maybe we should go and punch some holes in the sieve.

So youtube seems to have created me a playlist of many of the tracks I have favourited over the years. Fuck me, I have some amazing taste. At times, at least.

Just a half-formed though, I am currently reading Patrick Grants (of Sewing Bee) Less - a good read really. But his description of the "progress" myth - how things were eased by the early industrial revolution, it made work easier, it made the manual effort less, eased everyone work. Quality […]

#traitors, how on earth can they have it SO wrong. Not just wrong, but SOOOOOOO wrong.

#traitors - the Funfair from Hell

Yes Robot, I know how you feel.

"When everythings made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am".

"I can claim the dream from the dream" - Fontaines DC - Favourite. Really is a great track. Their album was quite something last year.

watching The Night Manager. An individual seeking to take over another country? Sounds deeply prescient.

Trump telling the UK that giving islands back their sovereignty is stupid? He is the lord of stupid. How about he fuck off instead.

Now listening to Thy Light. That is my mood at the moment. Suici.de.pression

Personally, I don't think Trump is insane. I mean, deluded, narcissistic, and immensely stupid (I mean, unbelievable so), but that is just what it takes to get on in politics. No, I think his problems are twofold: 1. He is is serious cognative decline. Alzheimer, dementia, no idea what. But he […]

Listening to Solstafir Djakninn (again). Because I still think it is uplifting as a piece of music. Also, it is incredible - how they keep up that speed and excitement.

So, watching Antiques Roadshow. Someone has brought in his ancestors diary from the Somme. His "pals battalion" - so a group of people who will have known others. Out of 650, only 45 survived. The one day. And they are talking about how fortunate he was. How Kitchener was encouraging pals […]

#writerscoffeeclub 18 Are you comfortable making a reader uncomfortable? How far will you go? Totally. Readers should be made to feel uncomfortable if the story is uncomfortable. If the message is uncomfortable. And good stories are going to disturb the reader. How far - well as far as is […]

I was musing on The Traitors. It is all about the ground under their feet the whole time. And they don't know who to trust, but want to avoid being excluded or murdered. And I realise that it is just like real life. Which may be one reason why it is so popular. The world is shifting under our […]

I want to go back to a time when David Icke claiming that world leaders were not human but lizards was considered completely ridiculous. Rather than it being a moderately reasonably explanation for why they are all inhuman bastards.

I watched the whole of series 1 of Patience (now watching series 2). And it is good - it is not some autistic savant. It is a more nuanced insight into the way that NDs can see things from a different perspective. But is not ignoring the problems it causes. So - recommended. So far.

#writerscoffeeclub 1/17: "What’s frustrating you, writing-wise?" It is hard. There are times I have when I can write, when I have a chance. And then I cannot get into the right mindset to write. I cannot make it happen at the time. I know what I want to produce, but wow - the actual slog of […]

Metalheads - do you know of Metal for Good? They are appearing on my FB at the moment, and I wonder who they are, whether there is anyone else who knows of them.

I have some agreement with Reform/Farage. I know, but let me explain. I too want the return to the past, in some aspects, and not in others. And we both have lists of what we want to return to and what we want to keep. And our lists are, I suspect, very similar. Except, with opposite headings […]

#traitors - Jades dinner party revelation! Oh my goodness. How sad.

"You have let the school down, you have let me down, but most of all..." "... you have let the tyres on Mr. Johnsons bike down. So you will go an pump them up again, and we will say no more about this."

Are we just in a big game of Traitors? I am guessing that Trump, JD, Farage, Putin are Traitors, but there might be more.

Nothing says "Winner" like having to bully someone into giving you their Nobel Prize, does it? So USA, are you enjoying all this winning? Are you proud of your president yet? LOSER. There was a time when the US was gently respected - while acknowledging that their politics was a shithouse […]

6 music playing Weekender. I mean very not metal, but such a good track. Makes me want to take some chemical enhancements.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2w94wp4p1o He has still not earned or won one.

It is disconcerting to be watching Stargate SG1, and find that the senior person from the pentagon is - Q.

"Yoshimi, they don't believe me, but you won't let those robots eat me". Always a pleasure to hear this track. Brilliantly surreal.

#traitors - well my goodness, that was quite something.

"Science Fiction is just wishful thinking - no real connection to reality" Yeah, right, creatures who are parasites, claim to be gods, demand worship, and accept nothing less in charge of everything, by their arrogance and worshippers? Cannot see how that has any relevance to the modern world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o 2 minutes that make you feel better about life.

So I have someone come to fix one of my windows (nothing major - just the hinge has gone). He is Fred Buckle from Call the Midwife. It is disconcerting.

Do you remember in the good old days when the USSR was the enemy, not the USA, that we would always make comments about the Russian leader not looking well, and them saying "he is in good health". And questioning whether he had died and they were still saying that, just pretending until they […]

So the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is proving so prescient. Written in the 1990s, but it does talk about a fascist earth, about mega corporations taking over the running of everything, it feels very relevant. (Still reading the final book. It is 800 pages. The whole trilogy is around […]

I want a zoom/teams add-on that gives you a traitors-style cloak. When you mute, it puts the hood down, and when you un-mute, it raises the hood.