Does he, tho?

Never seen this before.

Eldest is campaigning furiously to be allowed a hamster and this afternoon has been something of a hamster summit, with her texting a hamster owning friend to get intel like what does one do with a hamster when you go on holiday.

Anyway, between texts, the friend’s hamster suddenly DIED.

Honestly, I think humanity should take a sabbatical and let the crows make all the important decisions for a while.

Letter to the Daily Mail by Spike Milligan, 1988.

(Beachy Head is a sea cliff on the south of England and a notorious suicide hotspot).

LinkedIn random sent me a connection request with the following:

“P.S. Curious to know, if you had to describe the last 12 months in one word, what would it be?”

I have a number of un-LinkedInable answers to that question. What would you say?

They’re called sausage dogs because they were bred to hunt burrowing wild sausages.

You loved Owls in Towels; now get ready for Eels in Heels!

This is going to be hilarious.

Will they play U2, a band which is half-English by birth?

Will they play bands from the north of Ireland, Scotland and Wales who might tell you to fuck away off if you called them “British”?

Will they play David Byrne’s solo work, as he is Scottish by birth, but not Talking Heads, which is mostly American?

Will they be playing a lot of new music by black British musicians? (No.)

Eldest (a mature 12) has developed a sudden interest in horror films and is asking me for recommendations and/or permission to watch them.

So far I have allowed, but not suggested, Scream and Halloween. I have suggested Tremors and Poltergeist.

What would you suggest as roughly age-appropriate horror films that are actually decent and they might actually enjoy? They have watched all of Stranger Things.

#AskFedi #horror

Went to the arboretum. 🍁 🍂 #autumn

You had me at “sexually transmitted diarrhoea”.