"No Geoffrey we don't need to mount legal defences of American radio stations for playing German classical music, there's been no infringement of their right to air Brahms."
"Wilkie Collins Geoffrey? Absolute fall down lush - the woman in diamond white more like."
Sunday afternoon, sun's out but bareable, beers, book and 70s Stones on the pub PA. Cheers
"No Geoffrey, a flat white isn't a latter that's been run over by a steam roller."
Been in Bristol so have a before and after haircut pic comparison, before pic from last week.
"What's that Geoffrey, instead of an online therapy service you instead signed up for pictures of young dogs on facebook - I think you've subscribed to metawhelp by mistake."
Little light book shopping from Waterstones Gloucester this afternoon, where between vouchers and loyalty points, these cost me nothing.
"Oops, that wasn't just a fart. Unrelated, does anyone have a pair of boxers I could borrow?"
"Ha, I tell you what Geoffrey, the joke's on the Guardian, I've eaten far more than 100 books and To The Lighthouse tasted like duck a l'orange. Dickens still tasted shit though."
"The Red October Geoffrey? No, no I've not seen it about, where did you last put it?"
"No Geoffrey if you scrawl on a TV screen in yellow ink and press fast forward it won't scroll up off the screen like a Star Wars start."
Much better weather today, so some pics from a stroll around the Lucker grounds earlier today
Ghastly weather but made it to Alnwick and the wonder that is Barter Books
Very long day having left home at 9:30 this morning, but made it to Lucker and sat down with a drink
"But Geoffrey, if the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, Roman nor an Empire, what is there for one to hold on to in this dark age?"
"I'm not sure Geoffrey, I still feel a Game of Thrones themed restaurant just serving hearty meaty meals called 'The Old Gods and The Stew' might just be a bit too niche for the modern economy."
Wet and miserable out in Bristol today but did get haircut and then lunch at Not only noodles at Clifton Down where this bowl of soy glazed chicken and rice with can of coke zero cost me £12.49 the lot, bargainous in this day and age.
"I tell you Geoffrey, I've been buying up and saving up mickles all year and the amount you need to make a minimal number of muckles is ridiculous, you ought to be able to buy them premixed. I blame that bellend Burns, I bet he used to make soup with them."
"No Geoffrey, hamnet is not some pork based fishing contraption."
"Quick Geoffrey you need to hide too, this is Slough and our tickets were only to Reading."
"That cleric we saw in the big hat from Kent going on about rice and potatoes Geoffrey? That was the Starchbishop of Canterbury."