The Official Nonsense Thread

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There went that weekend looking after my brother, his wife & child & trying to keep them all suitably entertained, mostly the baby! Some of my other relatives had got their one year old a baby doll which it hated, especially when it made crying noises - even I could have told them that.

If looking for toys for children, Hamleys are brilliant, tell them what you are looking for eg. nongender specific for a one year old, & their staff are more than happy to tour you around the store & show you everything they have that fits the bill. Brilliant place where you can still get old fashioned toys to give a little one's mind a good work out. Got her a wooden clock with wooden shape blocks for the holes where the numbers are meant to go, which kept her almost as entertained as showing her the TMBG video for "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)".

Their kid is yet to walk properly - she finds it still faster to get from A to B going along the floor on one side, reminding me of Gollum in Lord of the Rings. Come to that, she kept trying to pull a ring off her mum's finger. Precioussssss!

Up here the nonsense about another referendum has stopped. No one I've spoken to wants one, not even the nationalists, & everyone is convinced this is Sturgeon on another ego trip. I'm not so sure about that: I think she knew Tinfoil Theresa would say no, so giving them a nice little boost before next month's council elections which could see every single Labour council left up north wiped off the map, an event I never thought I'd live to see. I wish they'd all get on with running the country & less on how it's going to be run. We already know how that's going to be done - badly!

Up here it's starting to get very worrying with the number of homeless in the streets. All of a sudden they are now in every doorway, every spare space available, all hours of the day. Some are reckoning that it's due to this new drug Spice doing the rounds which leaves them comatosed for 12 hours at a time & thus static for longer, but it is without a doubt new people, most of them looking on their last legs.

That's Chuck Berry away, one of the very last of the originals gone. I was getting spooked on Saturday because every store was playing ELO & I wondered had something happened to Jeff Lynne.