Sitting in Oslo Airport with an £11 pint of shit lager and have discovered my flight to Bergen, which then connects to my flight to England, is delayed by 40 minutes. Which is precisely 5 minutes less than the connection time. So we shall see how this goes.

Off to that there Norway - last time I met with these two reprobates in a Scandinavian country, Dawn tried to show off in the pub by ordering in Icelandic and we accidentally ended up with 12 pints of Tuborg Brown.

Loving pint o' wine discourse like some of us haven't been drinking it like that for years anyway.

For those asking, I'll be hopping on board the #duvetknowitschristmas train at 7.45pm or so, depending on when Ivor (nearly 2, now) goes to sleep. We'll be raising money for Centrepoint: justgiving.com/page/duvet-xma…

It seems I have a few b - sky invites if someone I know would like one? It's a lot less angsty that over that way.

'tis only a little mud!

At the sick bed of Cúchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer,
But the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair.

Spent much of today explaining how a sump pump works, getting it going and draining goop. At least *this* is only mud. #transferableskills

😞

The German Club was opposite my college and just up from the flat I lived in when I was 15. They used to sell me beer and fags with my school ID. I bloody loved that place.

Haven't regularly social media'd for a while - life is on a different path these days. Have just set up a thing at justeaj.bsky.social , possibly less pubs, possibly more archaeology, definitely dogs.

Because 14 year olds who aren't legally allowed to buy fags have always famously had difficulty getting their hands on fags.

That liminal few minutes between oppressive heat and the first crack of a thunder storm is one of my favorite things.

Watch Australians set new world record with Tina Turner dance bbc.in/3PLEiAl

Or.... Pockets? Please?

Lads, my hipster-ish local is absolutely belting out the early 90s Australian pub rock. The (lovely) kids who work here are absolutely on a 'oh, it's really classic but you won't have heard of it' bent and I'm having a very lovely time 😁

Were you even a schoolchild in Australia in the late 80s or 90s if you didn't learn THE line dance to Nutbush City Limits for PE? An entire generation still subconsciously start that sidestep whenever we hear it.
Vale Tina Turner x

And just because it’s astonishingly beautiful, here is another letter #DylanThomas wrote to his wife, Caitlin. It’s dated July 17, 1936 & he’s travelled to Swansea for work & had to leave Caitlin behind.

#DylanThomas Day

Apropos of nothing, they do know what O.C. and his ilk stood for, right?

Ancient human DNA found in 20,000-year-old bone jewellery
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…