Just got told off by a spin bike. The cheek of it.

Some days I miss being a fan of a fairly insignificant club (in the grand scheme of things) that trundles along playing Mick McCarthy football and finishing 12th in the Championship.

8 quid for a haircut? 2006 is back.

Dad: “Just calling to let you know that your brother has had an IED put in him”

“What a lovely sunny day” I think to myself just before my cat comes running inside, chasing and then mauling a butterfly to death.

Once again, where Scotland leads, England follows. We’ve had otters on our banknotes for years.

It’s me

Really shocking how nobody is questioning Simon Calder’s role in all of this.

Favourite bad Scottish joke, which only really works if you use a central belt accent: How do you know a cow is going on holiday? It’s got a wee calf.

TIL that “do not eat” on silica gel packets is because they’re a choking hazard rather than something that will actually damage your insides if you eat them.

Took me far too long to realise this wasn’t about 1̶ 0 time Tour de France winner and Lance Armstrong whistleblower Floyd Landis but some other guy I’ve never heard of.

I’m quite fed up of almost 10 years of government policies and communications catering to the 20 or so people in my town (of 150,000 people) who turn up every week to shout at an asylum hotel, to the detriment of literally everyone else.

One the one hand, work is kicking my arse this week, on the other hand my name was mentioned at the International Maritime Organization. So pretty run of the mill week really.

Good to see that British people are still singing God Save The Quing after over 3 years.

American speed skaters try not to fall over challenge. Difficulty level: impossible.

That preamble on the BBC was basically: Presenter: So, doubles luge. Why? Expert: Nobody really knows.

Two hours without any live Winter Olympic events? What the fuck is this? Oh god they’re going to show curling highlights again aren’t they.

Safely nestled between the Norwegian Progressive Intellectuals and the Everton Football Club Supporters, as I should be.

Americans going on like the Superbowl is the most important sporting event on earth while the rest of the world is going mad for curling.

Been laid out with a really horrible flu since Wednesday morning and honestly we do not give enough credit to bog-standard medicinal drugs. Imagine what life would’ve been like before paracetamol and ibuprofen.

I know a disproportionate number of people who’ve been shot in the arse. Probably about par for where I grew up but definitely on the high side for the UK as a whole.

I would keep up with all the awful news in the world but my life is now a constant loop of doing this with my cat every half an hour.

I think it shows the state that the media and political class is in that YouGov even thought this needed to be a question to poll on.

Just gritted the pavement in the village, partly to stop anyone slipping, but mostly to spite the man who, last time it snowed, complained endlessly on the local Facebook group about people of my generation “only caring about themselves and expecting other people to do that kind of thing for them”

We used to be a country

Just looking up the Aberdeen director of football (as you do) and…

Because I'm completely neurotypical, I spent the end of the year making a playlist of the 10 best songs from each year of my life. Some years were tricky because I couldn't find 10 songs, some years there was an absolute goldmine. But most years throw up wonderful combinations like this.

Taking my dad on an urgent trip to the hospital to get prodded up the arse was not on my “things to do in the dead time between Christmas and New Year” but here we are.

Modern life is rubbish (I think me and my cat would both notice if I ran out of cat litter thank you very much).

Disappointing year for getting ‘Happy Christmas’ emails from brands/companies. Just the people I bought a massage gun from and a theatre in Dunfermline this year. Everyone else is dead to me (unless they pull their finger out in the next 12 hours or so.

Darts is the cure to the male loneliness epidemic.

Attempting to have one last day of work before taking two weeks off, wish me luck! I may be a burnt out husk by the end of it. But then I can sleep for two weeks.

Darts is the cure to the male loneliness epidemic.

The internet: You should play with your cat for two or three 10-15 minute sessions per day. My cat, after 1.5 hours of playing: “Come on, where’s your stamina? We’re still playing”.

Everyone getting excited looking at their year end music things from Spotify or whatever, and here’s me sitting here with the same 15 songs it’s been for the last 5 years because that’s my spinning playlist for the gym. At least I’m consistent.

My cat discovered that she really likes being dried with a towel when she’s been caught out in the rain. Which is very sweet, except now she will deliberately go out in the rain and get a tiny bit wet just so I will dry her off. Then do it again. And again. So I am not getting any work done today.

Music is the worst for this now I think. The number of albums I bought just because the cover looked cool. Had a very good hit rate. Basically impossible to do that now. At least there are still bookshops, and places like Cex (in Britain) that sell second hand DVDs where you can still have a browse.

Big Jim Collie was 34 at the time. youtube.com/shorts/KvNNm...

Just done a workout and really need to shower but stupidly turns the football on and it’s already mad. Guess I’ll be stinking until half time then.

Simon Calder once again causing major travel disruption so he can get paid. What a jerk.

I often think that English people aren’t that different from Scottish people, then cricket happens and I realise that you all seem to care about it.

@littlekittybigcity.bsky.social It took me way too long to start playing this, but now I am, someone is very curious.

A message to all freelancers, if you can, please charge a flat rate per project. Saves everyone a lot of admin and unexpected charges. And ok, sometimes you might under quote, but sometimes you do 25 minutes work as I did today and it’s embarrassing how much that translates to as an hourly rate.

Kenny McLean is finally forgiven for playing for Norwich.

This is definitely turning into the most Scotland way to finish second in the group

I’m not quite sure how to deal with that. Scotland don’t score goals like that. In the second minute.

Christmas movie where an American woman visits a European microstate and falls in love with the prince, but war is brewing between them and all the other European microstates who now have American queens in charge. At Christmas.

Hallmark movie where the actors are all actually playing the same characters in each movie they’re in, and so have to rush to spend Christmas with their 20 different families in various small towns in America, none of whom know about each other.

Me watching Greece v Scotland.

There’s a VERY optimistic ice cream van going down my street right now in the dark and absolute driving rain.