90 mins sleep last night, then a full day of a man very noisily removing our kitchen.

I feel FANTASTIC 👍

Earlier today I was flicking through Ginger Wildheart’s Songs & Words book that he put out about 10 years ago. A sample chapter:

Clouds be crazy this evening

@judgedewie.bsky.social I was going to message you about the AMOLAD live bootleg, but then I remembered that you’re probably either writhing in agony or off your tits on morphine, so I’ll probably leave it for a bit.

GWS m’dude.

The sedation for my colonoscopy was the absolute tits. I was so chilled & happy for the rest of the day. Having my cervix clamped open with no anaesthetic wasn’t so great tho.

Awwwwwww

Drowned it in custard, obvs.

Fuckin’ lovely mate.

(I also added a rogue jar of mincemeat that I found in the cupboard, so now it smells like Christmas)

On the upside, I have just made a lovely crumble with the end of last year’s bramleys from my in-laws.

Trying to run our freezer down in prep for having the kitchen ripped out, so we’ve been having peas with fucking everything this week.

The Oxnead maternity field is at pretty much max capacity 🥰 🐑

Stop coughing all over BlueSky 😷

(Get well soon hon xx)

Mine was Rabbit-Based Childhood Trauma by Art Garfunkel. 😄

I’ve just found out about this guy from Chicago who taped thousands of gigs from the mid-80s onwards. They’re all gradually being cleaned up & put on the Internet Archive. From Kirsty MacColl to Fugazi & everything in between:

archive.org/details/aada...

The only good thing that came from it was that, out of curiosity, I made a playlist of my birth year’s number ones, and it turns out that 1979 was, with no hyperbole, the absolute best year for number ones in the whole world ever. I was born under Blondie, so it’s no wonder that I’m so cool 😎

Hahahaha! Love it! Puns are a special kind of love language 😄

And I’m not great at presents really. I thought 40 presents would be cute, but in reality it just consumed my life for about 3 months and was absolute hell.

BORING

I bought Fraze a Beano & Dandy from the week he was born for his 40th. Much better 😄

I also got him 39 other presents, including a mix tape of all the number one singles from the year he was born, which I thought would be great but it turns out 1977 was a dogshit year for number ones. Live & learn.

Well, if you want to be sensible about it, FINE. 😄

Chug that water & neck those drugs!

(Also, boooo for them not ultrasonicing you. Meanies.)

Oh mate, that sucks. Hospital thought I had kidney stones once given the amount of pain I was clearly in at the time (blinding agony), so I can only imagine how shit you’re feeling. Hope those little bastards fuck off out of you pronto.

I do appreciate that this is of no interest to anybody, but I felt the need to vent.

Basically, if you want all the stress of moving house but without the excitement of moving house, this is it.

Also, the new kitchen is being delivered on Monday and we’ve got to find somewhere to put that.

Did I mention that our house is tiny?

I’ve never wished that we had a garage more than I do right now.

Plus we’ve got to find room for our white goods. There isn’t any room for our white goods. I think we’ll just have to wrap them in plastic & hope they’re ok in the garden.

Oh, and I’m having a shitty time with my chronic pain issues at the mo, so I don’t know how we’re going to move it all.

…because we’re not going to have a washing machine for at least a week.

Then we’ve got to set up a temp ‘kitchen’ (fridge, kettle, toaster, microwave & air fryer) in our living room, but we can’t do that yet because all the boxes that are waiting to go in the spare room are in the way.

So this week, we’ve got to empty the kitchen of our stuff (perfectly reasonable).

But, because our house is so tiny, the only place we’ve got to put the boxes of our stuff is our spare room, which currently has no room because our clothes airer is in there and right now I’m doing ALL the washing…

…we’re having our kitchen done next week (much needed, as our current kitchen was obviously ripped out of a different house & crammed into ours, because it doesn’t fit properly. Also it’s ancient & disgusting and has pound shop stick-on vinyl floor tiles. Honestly, it’s grim.).

We’ve lived in our (tiny) house for 16 years, and now that our landlord has died & his daughter’s taken over, we’re having lots of things done that have needed doing forever, but have just been left because “fuck it, they’re only scummy tenants, right?”.

Anyway, long story short…

"I just feel so lucky to be considered in the same breath as some of the other artists on there." Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley shares his feelings on being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall... Maiden's 90s vocalist admits it's a "real privilege" to be included with artists like Billy Idol, Joy Division and Oasis in this year's nomination

www.loudersound.com/music/blaze-...

I know the others couldn’t give a stuff about the R&R HOF, but I’m genuinely chuffed for Blaze 😊