Carafartggio

With alacrity too - because a dog wouldn’t behave like that unless it had rabies

I think it’s getting more like “Detestables” now

Here's Paddington in a Chester-le-Street park, reimagined as a miserable old northern git:

Nothing in the middle of the road but cigarette butts and dead possums

Dirty limericks
Are extremely difficult
Haikus, not so much

I had the UFO one. I believed all of it.

Yes. We want there to be decent Nats because we don’t want American-style tribalised politics. But it’s the Nats and their little helpers driving and stoking the polarisation efforts.

"Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass."
Alexander Herzen