Matthew Perren
@matthewperren
Ex-bookseller. Inexplicably, now works in IT. Owned by the stupidest dog and most preposterous cat alive. Lives in Scotland. Non-work profile of @matnav.co.uk
Lotta comes to pick raspberries with us. There’s literally no point looking for any below waist height. She’s learnt this on walks during blackberry season.
In Canada, your standard corner shop is called a variety store. This one has given me the stage name I will be adopting when, in my old age I become a huge star
I think I saw that bike the other day at an exhibition in Edinburgh.
May I suggest a new rule for the Clacton by-election? If the number of registered electors who don’t vote is higher than the votes for the winning candidate, then no MP is returned. Wanna see the current map of constituencies with no MP under this rule? They’re the ones in purple.
Had to look after my daughter’s bag at her graduation. I felt it gave a finishing polish to my outfit.
No pens to steal, but there were some very pretty bikes. They were not keen on me stealing those either
That’ll do I reckon. Shall we blow the whistle ref? Everyone’s had a ho with the ball. No point wasting any more tome on it etc etc etc
I saw him in Edinburgh back in September and the lighting was such that, in his white clothes and with his white hair, all my photos of the gig made him look like a ghost. I think he’d have liked that.
“The giants of Notts County play the titans of Salford making them both seem normal-sized”
Back in the 80s she was spoken of in the same breath as Gray and Kelman. They had a jointly authored short story collection. I always found it odd (but entirely predictable) that she became eclipsed by her male counterparts.
I know. And they have perfectly normal nests. The OP is thinking of the Feral pigeon. Who have notoriously shit “nests”