FlyTheNest

Got the keys today.

Asked the landlord why he hadn't done any checks on me (no credit check, didn't contact my old landlord) because it seemed a bit strange.

Turns out he worked for the Sisters of Mercy and The Mission back in the day doing their merchandise, recognised a kindred old goth based on ...

Anyway, signed my new tenancy today (digitally for the first time) so no going back now. While sitting out in the wonderful sun my still current landlord turned up and joined me. He said I could use the garden for as long as I wanted and he'd be giving every tenant 5 grand after they leave when he ...

The actual history is during his war with the Persians Croesus followed the military tradition of the ancient Mediterranean kingdoms that you didn't fight in Winter so disbanded most of his army until the Spring whereas the Persians coming from the Iranian highlands found Mediterranean Winters balmy ...

Frog222 wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2026 9:27 pm Crazy Old World, when we are on the same page as MTG !

Are we? I'm not.

Bollocks. I forgot to dye any eggs for Easter then destroy them by chucking them down a hill before eating the remains. I'm deep in the shit now, the Celtic folk horror Easter Bunny is going to fuck me up.

Anyway I've moved from food to books now. What do I keep, what goes to charity shops? So far ...

So now it's April and Labour have cut sickness and disability benefits for new claimants by £50 a week. The rebellion may have halted the cuts to PIP, but the cuts to Universal Credit have gone ahead as planned. Imagine that, being on the edge of surviving with complex needs and then suddenly some ...

Like all the best things in life marmalade is actually Scottish. Well apart from the fact that the Scots ripped it off from the French who ripped it off from the Portuguese.

With my upcoming move I've been going through my food cupboards trying to decide what to take with me and what to chuck out ...

Cheers mate and I hope your Dad has a good one.

Two things for me to celebrate in these otherwise bleak times.

I've survived another year (55 today).

And I've got a flat! The bloke who turned me down for a place previously but offered me another came good. Went to see it yesterday. It's an attic flat in the process of being completely ...

Also sorry for the shit QT review the other night. I was knackered and stressed and just not feeling it.

Fortunately for them and me it's time for Easter.

A thunderstorm rolled over here a couple of hours ago and there was an almighty bang. The lights flickered, my TV glitched and the internet lights on my router immediately vanished. After an hour I thought that would be it until tomorrow but after another half an hour the router reset itself and ...

Question Time came tonight from Clacton. I know this is going to make me sound like a tremendous snob but rarely have I seen an audience so ably demonstrate the perils of a limited gene pool. I'm sure I saw extra limbs and facial features that weren't supposed to be there. It was like watching an 80 ...

QT is in Clacton. Shall we get Farage on in his own constituency? What you can't find him? Well I suppose we'll just have scrape the bottom of the barrel and get Tom Skinner on and pretend he's not representing Reform.

In other news I went to view a flat this afternoon with an interesting view...through the roof.

It was an attic flat which seemed ok until I asked to see the bedroom and the bloke started getting a bit shifty. 'It needs a bit of fixing,' he said.

When I opened the door, there was no bed, furniture ...

Good, Labour are such a hateful bunch of bigots.

My scoutmaster, Nigel, an evangelist Christian, sexually abused two of the lads in our troop before being jailed for possession of kiddie porn. While he was away on holiday something went wrong with his gas boiler and his house filled up with ...

Went to my local Iranian restaurant with my friend tonight now they've opened again with a big flag in the window. It's got a lion with the sun rising behind it which is the pre-revolution flag, no surprise. There were a couple of guys eating when we arrived and as they went to pay I heard one of ...

Question Time came tonight from Croydon.

For Labour we had Wes Streeting. Say what you like about Wes (and there's a lot to say, much of it unflattering), but if there's one thing he's good at it's appearing on this programme. Given the state Labour are in for Wes to get two rounds of applause is a ...

Why am I not surprised that freak James Orr has joined Reform, and why am I equally lacking in amazement that the BBC have him on to represent them despite him being elected by absolutely nobody.

I went to visit my uncle (Dad's brother) in hospital when his cirrhosis of the liver was so bad they'd deemed it terminal. Before I arrived nobody had warned me about the jaundice. He wasn't just a bit yellow, he was almost the colour of a banana. It was quite off-putting to say the least.

I mean to be fair Alexander the Great conquered the entirety of the Persian empire from the Mediterranean to India, never mind just Iran, with about 30000 guys with spears. Add on a few mercenaries and auxiliaries and you can get the number up to about an average Premier League football crowd.

The ...

For all those trying to claim it's just 'the left' refusing to support Trump and the Israelis here's a Trump appointee with multiple historic links to the far right (including Nick Fuentes and the so called 'Proud Boys').

As a Scotland rugby fan I must say I'm slightly crapping myself today. It could be a day of glory or a complete bust. They've been brilliant and terrible in almost equal measure so god knows what's going to happen against the Irish. If , and that's a big if given our record in Dublin, we beat the ...

Question Time tonight came from Wythenshawe. I was curious about how the audience would pan out because I used to know the place quite well, you've got the Wythenshawe estate itself, then all the posh Tory wankers from Sale, and the audience reflected that dichotomy. What seemed to unite them ...

All systems are go for a QT review this evening.

An unsurprising read.