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The blackbirds in my garden (especially after putting out sultanas for them).
My lobster linguine. (Sometimes I use scallops - they're good too).
My ability to throw good money after bad. I suspect I'm a professional when it comes to that.
Seeing a large murmuration at dusk.
Not always a good thing...
How easy it is to clean my Aeropress
Watching Steve Smith waste a review on a plumb lbw.
Watching Steve Smith not refer an lbw in a WC final only to find he should have.
My old SS Singular Peregrine - 14 years and still most ridden bike.
Technics 1210 Mk2 turntables, built like tanks, serviced once in more than 30 years.
Pressing play on DJ Shadow's Entroducing, Portishead's first album or Massive Attack's Mezzanine.
Seeing daughter grow up to be a very funny and caring young lady.
Perusing the Screwfix catalogue on the bog
First cup of tea in the morning
Riding onto a ferry on my motorbike
The thinnest smear of marmite on hot buttered toast
First swallow of the summer
First log fire of the winter
Pub lunch by an open fire after a frosty walk/ride
Titanic Plum Porter
A w##k.
Talisker
Any Peter Gabriel album or gig.
Any HMHB album or gig.
Any Elbow album or gig.
Kitkat
William Gibson book
Neil Gaiman book
Qi
There’s lots of other things like beer, whiskey, etc, but picking individual varieties isn’t possible.
Saying the word Spain with an Eh sound at the beginning.
As in Espain.
3 pages in and no mention of "coke and hookers"?
Riding my bike! Well, often my riding is disappointing but it's always better than being stuck in the house.
When you’ve just built something (flatpack or bike or whatever) and you go back and have a look at it to make sure it hasn’t fallen apart AND IT HASN’T FALLEN APART
That's a good call. First wheel build. In a hurry as we had a replacement rim to go on the lad's back wheel before an event. The next day, following him down practice day at a Golfie enduro and it still being true and tight at the end. Both surprised and very happy! The spoke key in my pocket was unused. 🙂
My homemade pulled pork chilli.
...someone else's pulled pork chili. Even if it's not great, it's good and I didn't have to make it.
A J Mascis guitar solo.
Those seconds after launching off a 10m platform.
High, long or wide?
Walking into my shed,sometimes I just stand for a few minutes scanning all that makes it mine.
Like a huge comfort blanket.
High
, long or wide?
Kersplash 🙂
Leonard Cohen
Germany
A Robertson Davies novel
My own thought life
To quote John Cooper Clarke
Sometimes there are things in life that are a disappointment. But living with a monkey isn' t one of them.
Boobies.<br /><br />
The blue footed ones are brilliant.