Dad: Gosh, she looks different!
Me: That's not Sue Barker. It's Judy Murray.
Dad: Who?
Me: Judy Murray!
Dad: Eh?
Me: JUDY MURRAY!
Dad: Oh… I think her name's Anne Something.
Me: IT'S JUDY… SODDING… MURRAY!!
Dad: Eh?
Me: IT'S JUDY MURRAY!!
Dad: Suzy Who?
Better!
…they meant to say ‘The Better Pitches’!
Nasty little ginger quit
BBC: In full: The Sussexes' statement and the Buckingham Palace response
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released a statement saying they intend to step back as senior members of the Royal Family.
(See what I did, there?)
20,000 not out!
Where Carolyn leads, I follow…
I am 20,000 days old today. That's over 169 giraffe years. How the hell did that happen?
It seems like only yesterday that I was banging on about being a mere 15,000 days old. But it wasn’t yesterday; it was exactly one-quarter of my lifetime ago, on 27th April, 2006.
I’m off for a nap.
2019 in a nutshell
So that was 2019. The year truth and common decency ceased to matter. The year a lying oaf won by a landslide. The year people with swastika tattoos celebrated. The year Walkley’s Mill burnt down. The year Australia caught fire.
On the plus side, I took some more photos. So here’s my ninth annual video slideshow review of the year:
(Click the arrows bottom-right next to the word Vimeo to view the slideshow in full-screen mode.)
Consistent as ever, as in the previous eight years, this year’s slideshow contains 97 photos.
Once again, I composed the ambient pap backing track. It is called Pizzi-Carter (see what I did, there?):
See also: