📚 The Sotonians Lockdown & Beyond Diaries

Lolz

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Perhaps wise to have the headphones on at work or with kids around

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Meet the Girls.
Their FB Page cover photo.

You may joke, BUT sales of their output to neighbours this last month actually paid our internet/phone Bill’s & a portion of the Electric/Gas Bill’s & 5 of them are just about to start laying to add to that

An eggs sell ant project

Secret diary of Paul Taylor, aged 45 1/24th

Fuck me, you can tell that my daughter’s amusingly named boyfriend is coming today. She was observed, not fifteen minutes ago, taking a vacuum cleaner into her room.

I am anticipating the accumulated waste to be turfed down the stairs. I just hope any human remains are wrapped in the appropriate length carpet. We live on a main road. It wouldn’t be seemly and for once, you see and hear the coppers every day.

There are rumours that the old bill are stopping anyone in cars with more than two people inside, asking why there are more than two people inside. Second daughter’s proposed solution for this is to hide in the boot.

Living in a city where groups of people have achieved massive things in the past, it’s a bummer when you think about the implications.

Under these rules, the Beatles would never have been able to jam, BUT Linda and Paul McCartney would have been able to go about their business, whether it’s making vegetarian sausages with meat in or whatever disastrous set of life choices that led to The Frog Song.

Linda was a pretty maligned figure at the time, but I say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

Paul’s next wife was apparently legless all the time.

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They’ve got to get six miles across the city. Fingers crossed.

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Come on what’s his name then? The suspense is killing me.

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This should be in strangely compelling, as in lockdown could watch this for hours…

https://twitter.com/dodaistewart/status/1249881789503623170?s=19

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You fucking tease. :angry: You can’t refer to “The amusingly named boyfriend…” and then not share the joke with us. :rage: What’s this paramour’s name then??

Is it Fred West?

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I think it might be Barry.

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I can say with some certainty that we’ve secured the transfer of Michael Owen.

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I bet his parents tried to change that when he went to Manchester United…

Er, no - and for once I’ve got some pretty solid evidence.

He’s still called it.

Better put him in a downstairs room, his hamstrings will never cope with the stairs.

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Shame. It could so easily have been Michael Hunt. :thinking::+1:

Secret Diary of Paul Taylor, aged 45 1/24th

Having successfully gotten Midget Gem into our house, it would appear that we’re not done creating new chances to infect ourselves. I have learned from the missus that tomorrow, we will also be hosting the other boyfriend, a much more dangerous proposition from “ripe” London.

I’m guessing it’s okay. I mean, if it wasn’t, they wouldn’t be putting trains on from Liverpool to London. He has been in lockdown for as long as we have, but even so, you worry about the bastard touching a service, licking a dog’s arse or having a bat sandwich from whatever sandwich shops are still open in the capital.

I’ve already consulted @Tokyo-Saint on this matter, who agrees with me that it is probably a bad idea. However, I am also hemmed in by my own feelings on this matter. The only reason he stayed in London was to look after his sister, an admirable motive. However, his sister has rather less admirably fucked off to her boyfriend’s place. I don’t like the thought of him being stuck in on his own, so risk it we will.

If he ends up killing me my dying words will be “I told you to come up three weeks* ago, you little cunt”

* Timespan subject to change depending on my own resistance.

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His name’s not Robbie Fowler is it?

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In case the British Transport Police are reading, yes. Yes it is.

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Secret Diary of Paul Taylor, aged 3/48ths

Addendum. The eldest is hosting her fourth quiz night. She is a natural presenter (bossy bastard with a splendid vocabulary and a lively way of speaking, literally*).

There are around 30 people in teams on her Zoom screen, including the youngest and the newly installed boyf-unit. On that note, the move has been a successful one, more than vindicated by hearing the little girl chuckle at his japes.

Somehow she thinks his jokes are better than Dad jokes. I probably know why. Installed boyf-unit is also a budding and pretty talented impressionist in his spare time. He’s probably doing impressions of me.

Back to the quiz, it seems a small thing, but it’s a huge thing. Both the Taylor units are contributing in their own way. Firstborn is providing an evening’s live entertainment in a world where there is little. Lastborn is stacking shelves six days a week and putting herself at risk every day.

I am naturally very proud of the 'borns in this period.

My job this evening is to teach Gingora how to play Stardew Valley. She is super annoying on the games front. She claims not to play games but spends endless hours tapping and swiping at her iPad, playing games.

I’m going to have to teach her that buttons are a thing again. Fuck.

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