Me…?
The First Lord of the Treasury…?
Here, in this place…?
At an illicit party…?
With unelected bureaucrats…?
With my reputation…?
(......BINGO!)
Me…?
“Driver, take me to the nearest fridge!”
Frequent liar smiles
(See what I did, there?)
Pimms Questions
BBC: '100 invited' to Downing Street garden lockdown drinks
As many as 100 people were invited to a “bring-your-own-booze” drinks event in the Downing Street garden during the first lockdown, it is understood. […] But Boris Johnson has declined to say whether he was among those there.
(See what I did, there?)
2021 in a nutshell
So that was 2021… Almost as shit as 2020! More bloody virus; almost daily lies from the Prime Minister; an attempted coup in the United States; and the best dog in the world leaving us.
On the plus side, I took some more photos. So here’s my eleventh annual video slideshow review of the year:
Consistent as ever, as in the previous ten years, this year’s slideshow contains 97 photos.
Once again, I composed the ambient pap backing track. It is called Strum Trifle:
See also: All of my yearly nutshell videos
Punning the depths
Jen accidentally dropped a prune down our kitchen plughole yesterday…
I asked whether we needed to call a plummer.
Enid Blyton goes dark
Is there no end to this Brexit hell?
Molly Carter (2006–2021)
My late mum’s dog (and, since 2009, my dad’s dog and companion), Molly, died yesterday, exactly 12 years to the day after my mum died.
Molly was, as I’m sure you’ll realise, the best dog ever. We’ll all miss her.
Thanks, Pups!
See also: Meet Molly Carter
Dangerous perversion
BBC News: Doctor Hossam Metwally poisoned partner in ‘exorcism ritual’
An anaesthetist who poisoned his partner in a series of botched exorcism ceremonies is facing jail.
Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple’s home in Grimsby.
The implication seems to be that not all exorcism ceremonies are dangerous perversions. I beg to differ.