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Sun's out, harem pants out

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Right now, I should be doing sensible things but distractions are a-plenty and the current hot weather has enabled my procrasination with an excuse to rummage around the cupboard to dig out the fan, Alan's cooling mat and a cheesy throw with a tiger on it turned up - no idea why it was in there but it's in the laundry basket now anyway. Also this morning, I've been busy inadvertantly mind-marinating an episode of Northern News , can't remember specifically which episode it was, but Ian referred to jacket potatoes as "jayperpapoes" and that neologism is just hands down my favourite thing at the moment; it keeps coming into my head and making me laugh. It's a bit too sizzly for jackets (both the spuds and the garments) at the moment, but when we get some colder weather, I will absolutely be on it with some jayperpapoes. Probably with tuna and mayo, some grated cheddar and a splash of hot sauce - yums . In other news, the old Macc Express sign on Chestergate ...
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More liminal space exploration, falker satherhood moments and vaporwave emotions

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While looking for mosaic supplies, I encountered this, a Falker Satherhood moment in the wild! On a related note, it's lovely to see Cake Wrecks still going after all these years; it brought a lot of joy to me and my friends back in college. Also, it would be remiss of me not to mention this post , because the "ripe ass advocados" are pure gold - 10/10, no notes. I could absolutely imagine someone in the shop going "Damn, those are some ripe ass avocados!"  In other news, I have set off on a mission to check out more of Stevia Sphere/Glaciaere 's back catalogue, after stumbling upon You're My Toy, Literally ; Pool Water Blue and Troubled but Hopeful a couple of years ago and absolutely loving them. In this endeavour, I've been giving each album some breathing room before checking out another one, giving each one my full attention and appreciation. At time of writing, Overflow is really delivering the goods; the whole EP is sublime but sum...
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Hello again Moto (now piss off Moto, and take Lenovo with you.)

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  Technical difficulties aside (but for the record, Blogger's post editor is also being a colossal cunt right now), we have more photoposting for today, and I went for an aimless wander under some cloudy skies, just to get out and about for a bit, because I get cabin fever at the drop of a hat most days. It's on this wander that I noticed this office building, Sovereign Court, appears to have fallen into disuse, and disrepair. It's something that I've always taken for granted, that things went on in this building, but clearly fuck all is happening with it at the minute and it's getting pretty tatty to boot.   Looking up this bit at the side here, it doesn't look too bad...  ... but at ground level, it's another story.   This bashed-in shutter 'ere - what is this, reserved parking for a Resident Evil boss?! Note the tantalising door hanging open in the distance...   A sign around the side looking worse for wear, among some pebbledashed* corduroy concrete...
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Go and Stop! Downtime.

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Starting as I mean to go on with more seals! This time they're brandishing a globe, as if they're plotting world domination. I, for one, welcome our new fluffy overlords. Sod's law, I got 4 days off work in a row and landed an atrocious cold just in time for it. Whether it's an old-fashioned bit of nonsense or there's legitimate science to it, not entirely sure, but I subscribe to the theory of "Starve a fever, feed a cold" so to that end, I've been taking it easy and enjoying shortbread with strong coffee and a not-very-wee dram of Scotch for good measure. Whether or not it's legitimately helping remains to be seen, but it is thoroughly enjoyable, and this cold does seem to be shifting pretty sharpish. Anyway, for today, it's time to gather together some recent(ish) encounters from draft posts that never wound up being finished. 3rd-7th of April It's been some time since there was last a beer tasting on this blog, mainly because I'...
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The forest has a thousand eyes...

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It's that time again, finally facing down the terrible demon of legend that is Rose Fossil's dreaded "Sort and back up later" folder. There are a great many things that comprise the body of this haunting gestalt entity; some of the less threatening things are files with recognisable names, that can easily be classified and sent in peace to their intended destination... others are more vague and ominous, though. Strings of letters and numbers; dates; zip folders of fonts I couldn't be arsed to install; fucking WEBP images!!! ; file formats that Windows 11 will randomly decide it doesn't want to work with anymore (RIP.rtf) - the horrors! However, it's in among one of these vaguely named files, that I found treasure... And that treasure is a mid-'90s TV film adaptation of Roald Dahl's tongue-in-cheek version of Little Red Riding Hood, from Revolting Rhymes (a classic, I loved that book when I was a kid.) This film passed me by, though; I didn't se...
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Take a good hard look at the motherfucking seal

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It's been a patchy one again but there are more important things afoot, such as this seal who's been on our calendar through March and looks like he's staging some kind of intervention, like the Michael Jordan "Stop it, get some help" meme. It's become a bit of a running joke now; if someone doesn't have their shit together, just sit them down with this deeply concerned-looking harp seal pup. Someone dipping into your posh yogurt without asking? Intervention Seal.  Someone being a dickhead and not respecting your boundaries? Intervention Seal.  Trying to get someone off the smack? Intervention Seal.      That is just a pure Think About Your Life face right there.   Also while on this subject, I picked up this lovely book, second hand for next to nowt and it's a journey - very informative, deeply tragic in places, but to take the edge off, it does contain numerous photos of adorable seals and beautiful arctic scenery. The pinniped brainworms are stro...
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