FlyTheNest

As for Rod Liddle kicking the bucket (at a relatively young age to the surprise of nobody), so many gushing eulogies today and not one of them honest.

He was a vapid opportunist who'd say anything for money or the thrill of causing offence like a sniggering child. His political leanings always ...

It absolutely pissed down here in Leeds late this afternoon. I headed out afterwards and it was like walking in a sauna as it began to evaporate. It must have been about 99% humidity. Most unpleasant.

This is in Halifax station and it caused me to miss my last bus on Sunday night, resulting in a £9 ...

If I thought The Odyssey was bad (which I very much did) it was as nothing compared to Spielberg's return to 'Aliens are real' territory.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15047880/

(Spoilers ahead, for what they're worth)

I fully expected it to be awful but I like Emily Blunt so against my better ...

So I've had the DWP on my back again, this time about a couple of million quid I thought they'd missed after I (cunningly I thought at the time) paid it directly into my Dad's bank account then asked him to dish it out to my mates so they could stash it. They've got me bang to rights this time I'm ...

Just back from seeing The Odyssey at the Hyde Park Cinema.

I hated it, absolutely detested it. I studied The Odyssey for A level and at Uni so know it pretty well. Odysseus was an anti-hero, a trickster, a liar, a manipulator, but above all he was clever, he was interesting, he was never boring ...

Been over visiting my brother and his wife in Cheshire this weekend and an astonishing thing occurred, water began falling from the sky, it was happening in Lancashire as well, which must have sent some of the locals round the bend because as the train entered Manchester on my way home this evening ...

Popped into the kitchen and the mouse scurried behind the washing machine. I pulled the machine out and there's a bloody great gaping hole where the plumbing heads downstairs. It seems my rodent friend didn't have to climb mouse Everest after all. I've filled the gaps around the pipes up with ...

As for Burnham's cabinet. Sigh. Mostly the same faces shuffled about. And some who needed shuffled out not shuffled at all.

It was an opportunity for a total reset. There are literally hundreds of Labour MP's, and presumably some of them at least are talented in various fields of expertise. Yet we ...

I've got a mouse! Have seen it the last couple of nights scurrying along the skirting board in my front room before miraculously vanishing. Poor thing must be starving if it's desperate enough to brave a dash when I've got the lights on. And it will be starving because all my food is mouse proofed ...

My bad leg has shrunk and now they're about the same size :-)

Equal length legs is good.

A friend of mine had Perthe's disease as a child which went undiagnosed for years leaving him with his left leg getting shorter than his right into adulthood. Every time he buys a new pair of shoes his leg ...

It's 24° in here now, previously I'd have thought that was a bit warm but after the last week it's bliss.

Could I just say something about Ann Widdecombe? I'm not going to lie, when I heard she'd died I thought, 'Oh well, that's a shame.' In the way you do when someone you don't like kicks the ...

Rejoice!

Oh sorry, I meant oh how sad England are out of the World Cup.

In the most hilariously bizarre fashion.

They've got some of the best players in the world, from the richest league in the world, yet played like they were non-league underdogs after scoring from their one single shot on ...

The other night I went bed and without even looking picked up the book I'd been reading* and nearly shat myself. Clinging to its cover was an evil looking arachnid which I afterwards identified as a male noble false widow spider. God knows where it came from but it went out the window pretty ...

It peaked at 29.1° in here earlier this evening and is now very slowly starting to cool down, though it's still in the 28's.

It doesn't feel as bad as it has previously though, presumably because the humidity is lower. Plus after a random chat with a lady who works at the counter in Argos when I ...

My new fibre download is 27 Mbs, is that good ?

I'm on BT's cheapo dole scrounger special and that's fixed at 36 Mbps which is more than I need, even when purloining 4K films. So maybe your question should be is it good enough for what I need it for? A 4K stream needs about 20 Mbps so unless you ...

From a couple of weeks ago, apologies if we've already seen it. I believe it's a US publication but a UK author.


Thanks Gilsey, read the whole article and wouldn't argue with a word of it.

I mean it's not difficult to understand is it?

Alienating your core voters on the left while attempting ...

I've had the DWP on the phone again about that £5 million my friend in Zanzibar gave me.

Tiresomely they keep banging on about it and now claim they're investigating me for serious financial misdemeanours (no doubt out of spite and jealousy, you know what these people are like).

"Oh really?" Says ...

I went for a couple of drinks earlier in Oakwood, it's a pretty well to do part of Leeds next to Roundhay Park, which is having a festival this weekend (Lewis Capaldi and others). There have been signs up for at least a week saying what roads would be closed and at what time and stewards were in the ...

I was speaking to my mate Zico from Tesco today. As you may have noticed while shopping recently supermarket refrigeration systems in this country can't handle the heat. Last week when all the refrigerators were down in my local shop he said they lost over £60,000 in sales. Despite his name he's ...

I had an absolute nightmare with the DWP today.

A few weeks ago a guy I know in Zanzibar gifted me 5 million quid and now the DWP are saying I should have declared it and are threatening to prosecute me for benefit fraud. The absolute cheek of it! I was on the phone for over an hour explaining that ...

Obviously I began the World Cup supporting Scotland, which went badly, then shifted to Japan, who sadly disappointed, now all I have left are France, which feels like cheating.

There was a three car shunt at the traffic lights outside mine on Saturday.

This afternoon a young bloke approached me when I left the house saying he'd been driving one of the cars and was trying to collect evidence for insurance purposes and asked if I'd seen the incident. I told him I'd heard it ...

refitman wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 8:28 pm My primary school summer fairs had better attendance than this. This is hilariously pathetic.

Huh? What's meant to be going on there?

In regard to the refugee tax, upon first reading about it (incredulously) today, my first thought was how much different is this to refugees being financially exploited by human traffickers?

Anyone want a heartening story of human decency in these benighted times?

I'd been over to see my friend in Calderdale, had a nice stroll and drank some wine, then went to get the bus into Halifax to get the train back to Leeds. The bus stopped, a lady driver got off and asked where I was going ...