FlyTheNest

A rogue branch.We are from the Scottish cotton workers side of the dynasty.Not many of us proper Hindles left and may very well cease before the end of the century or the end of the World which ever come first.

I don't really want to go in tomorrow...

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Hhmm....

adam wrote:

citizenJA wrote:

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Pah, none of you were eighties goths were you?

Of course not, I like dancing too much.

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One of the very best 80s dance floor tracks. Possibly too pop and insufficiently goth to count but there you go. The best bit is at about 3m17s when it goes all quiet and swirly and then totally crashes back in. Obviously.

Apologies, adam, for not responding sooner. My work takes me away from the computer randomly, sometimes for hours. That happened this morning.

I love She Sells Sanctuary for dancing!

I don't use exclamation marks frivolously. A writer is allocated a finite number of exclamation marks a writer within a lifetime.
If I'm not careful, they'll come a day I need one and have none.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:

I have made note, SGO, of your advice above.

No, don't do that. My advice is worth shit unless you happen to tickle the same fancies as I.

And I don't think you do.

You seem to inhabit somewhere better.

Certainly overlapping - at least I suspect so.

This evening I watched The Babadook and have spent most of the time since turning on lights and resolving to never open a book that I'm not absolutely certain I've already read. It was very good and I'd thoroughly recommend it but I kind of wish I'd watched it before it got dark.

Edited to add trailer

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Can report also falling at the walking hurdle in recent weeks. An assortment of interacting reasons, but planning a breakthrough for next weekend. Will report in in due course. My goal, Hindle, is to walk a marathon (am a long way off yet) and I find it implausible that people can walk such a distance never mind run it. Does running have a different impact on feet or what?

Perhaps I am just structurally challenged.

Good to have you Hindle fighting the good fight still against the WCA oppressor.

A clever film which basically says this is what it's like to suffer from depression.

If only I could lock mine in the basement.

The world we all grew up with. Being kind to people. All that shit.

It's all gone.

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This all seemed so much easier when it was warm.

It seemed like fun.

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Well it impresses the #### out of me.

Figured you'd want to know: have switched from summer to winter cagoule

Everything has to be fucking plugged in and charging.

My phone, my e-cig, my...other things.

And after a while the connections don't work properly anymore so you spend half your time making sure you've got your phone at the right angle for that charging cable to work, or jamming the cable as hard as you can into your e-cig just to get it to charge.

I don't know, maybe I should buy some new shit.

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Ok tomorrow I'm going to crudely apply clothes to Clangers.

You genius.

I reckon a nice bit of purple brocade for the dilettante one.

You can tell by the angle of the snout.

Sorry TinyClanger I'm being a dick again.

I really must get this out of my system.

Not just me then.In order to remember to fully charge before w/e jaunts,'phone,watch and I-pod are in situ upstairs in extension upstairs.Downstairs I have toothbrush,shaver,battery charger,'phone 2,kindle 1.Next to bed kindle 2.Ridiculous.On my third cable for kindle,which I use too often and take to bed,we're only good friends.

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Think we will be have to plugged in before too long.Certainly surprised we haven't all been bar-coded yet.

You are good people.

I like you.

Maybe sometime we could...FUCK everything's gone wrong.

Went to a night of Leeds grassroots goth 'festival'.

We were there mainly for insane Japanese nonsense.

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I spent the night talking to a women who had bet her house against the fact her nightclub was going under.

She lost it all, but she's still cheerfull.

Thing is Sarah is good looking with big tits, so despite her massive amount of debt and other baggage she can always attract another fool.

We men are morons.

Fuck me it seems I've accidentally gone and got myself a girlfriend.

Seriously, she's called Sarah and she's a vet.

We've been out for a couple of meals and everything.

She wasn't keen initially due to my kind of drunken nonsense I'm sure you're all familiar with, but once I realised she was a sci-fi geek I just went for it.

I'll probably fuck it up.

But until then for once I'm feeling rather quite pleased with myself.

This is the first time I've scored in ten fucking years.

Good to hear.

Damn you Hindle I was trying to post music and you got in the way. Grrrrr.

Down boy.

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Ok let's work this out.

The negative aspects of having a girlfriend.

1: Not being able to do what the fuck I like anymore.
2: Having to wash.
3: Having to pretend I like shit I don't actually like.
4: Being nice when I don't feel like being nice.
5: Not being given time to indulge in my intellectual pursuits.
6: Not being able to masturbate whenever I feel that alarmingly less urgent urge.

The positive aspects of having a girlfriend.

1: Sex.
2: That's pretty much it.
3: We do this shit for sex, it's how we're made, the selfish gene and all that. I've been to Dawkin's house you know. My ex was going to write a book with his wife. Lalla Ward who ran about with Tom Baker as a Doctor Who assistant in the seventies. She even briefly married him as well as far as I remember. Anyway Dawkins was away but I did get to meet Lalla who had been in many of my youthful masturbation fantasies and how many of you can say that?

I didn't mention that to her of course.

Just to say I understand that most of you weren't in my youthful masturbation fantasies. That was a poorly phrased sentence.

Some of you were though.

Suggest you incorporate 2,5,6 of the cons into 1.of the pros


Happy to help.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Ok let's work this out.

The negative aspects of having a girlfriend.

1: Not being able to do what the fuck I like anymore.
2: Having to wash.
3: Having to pretend I like shit I don't actually like.
4: Being nice when I don't feel like being nice.
5: Not being given time to indulge in my intellectual pursuits.
6: Not being able to masturbate whenever I feel that alarmingly less urgent urge.

The positive aspects of having a girlfriend.

1: Sex.
2: That's pretty much it.
3: We do this shit for sex, it's how we're made, the selfish gene and all that. I've been to Dawkin's house you know. My ex was going to write a book with his wife. Lalla Ward who ran about with Tom Baker as a Doctor Who assistant in the seventies. She even briefly married him as well as far as I remember. Anyway Dawkins was away but I did get to meet Lalla who had been in many of my youthful masturbation fantasies and how many of you can say that?

I didn't mention that to her of course.

The other negative, of course, is that you neglected to pay tribute to the stoic trio of Clangers who'd dressed in purple brocade in your honour.
However, we do understand.

Aaaah fuck.

I found out today my Mum has Alzheimer's.

She'd been being a bit weird and forgetful for a while but this last year she has been forgetting stuff so often my Dad took her to see a psychiatric nurse today (Scottish border town, best you can get) and it's pretty much confirmed.

I rang home today and she forgot who I was twice in the space of 10 minutes.

I haven't been back home for Christmas for nigh on 10 years but I guess it's time before she's gone.

Sorry for late reply,I was posting crap to myself whilst waiting for the by election result.


Very sorry to hear that.

Yep, that is rubbish news. Go and see her whilst you still can.

Sorry to hear that SGO.

Thanks all.

I wondered what the hell was going on when she was forgetting basic things like my name. Her GP told my Dad that it was a side effect of the medication she was taking for her underactive thyroid and so he went along with that until she forgot where she lived and had to ring him and ask.

I spoke to her today and she was completely fine, it's one of these infuriatingly variable things.

Crap.

Have PM'd you.

So I've been on a date.

A woman has just driven from Hampshire to Leeds to meet yours truly.

And as far as I'm concerned it seemed to go quite well, I managed not to make a cunt of myself for a change at least.

She's a vegan though who doesn't drink which is somewhat concerning. But she did drive me home which was good.

Excellent.

I was just about prepared to give up, to go and live in a fucking cave before this woman showed up.

Thank you Tiny Clanger and Hindle for your best efforts.

Seriously though I spent last night with a woman who loves Farscape.

I never imagined such a thing possible.

Good to hear.Wouldn't be concerned about tee totalism,we are not all that bad and you found out we do have our uses.It was a good job for instance I was sober on a trip to Dublin and over indulgence in Guiness for my weepy mum,increasingly annoyed by this dad,and a laughing about anything not keeping still in her wheelchair better half,trying to escort back to hotel without ending up in the Liffey.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:So I've been on a date.

A woman has just driven from Hampshire to Leeds to meet yours truly.

And as far as I'm concerned it seemed to go quite well, I managed not to make a cunt of myself for a change at least.

She's a vegan though who doesn't drink which is somewhat concerning. But she did drive me home which was good.

Apologies for not responding sooner, Sky'sGoneOut.
She sounds wonderful, sincerely.

Ok right so I've managed to score. However freakishly nonsensical that may be I think I'd rather talk about cheese.

I had a couple of people around for wine and cheese this evening and I know a little organic cheese shop in Leeds that has served me well in the past when trying to impress people with cheese.

Anyway I bought this stuff with truffles in it. Cost me quite a lot. And it ended up tasting like bog standard cheddar infused with mushroom soup. It was horrible.

I've still got loads left and I think I'll put it out for the birds tomorrow. They don't seem to mind bad cheese.

I don't know, she's a proper person with a career and everything.

And she seems to think I'm not a dick.

You lot know me better, which is why I have to hide this kind of nonsense.

But for how long can I hide it? How long?