Duszek

Yep!

Sunny here, I'm sat outside on the balcony working my way through this.

Yep. Parc des Bastions, Geneva.

In which case we’ll be celebrating a famous victory. Manager and fans, that is, rather than playing staff.

I didn’t enter this year so will pick your lot to support. Who else is in the side?

“According to two leading vets?” Maybe something in this. Can’t get a GP appointment? No problem, try the vet.

How’s that, then? Wouldn’t it be strongest in (what passes for) summer?

What’s bizarre about neds drinking in public? what are you expecting? “Troops, in light of the public health situation, I vote we tone down the alky tanning a bit.” ”aye, sound.” the day rockets drinking in public disappear from the Scottish landscape will be a sad one. A minority view perhaps.

Jeez... so another 4 weeks of lockdown for us in France. What mad times we live in.

Ah, Peter Stillman. My end-of-year essay during my Paris Erasmus exchange was a rant about the impossibility of nomenclaure to capture identity, citing this book as proof. I got an A - the professor was an American hippy. Great times.

Independence Day by Richard Ford - magnificent.

Living in France but working in Geneva, the dream scenario for me will be if the French relax their restrictions but the Swiss remain in lockdown, meaning we’ll all still be working from home but I‘ll be swanning about town like a motherfucker. Here’s hoping for good/grim death figures from Paris/Bern in the days to come.

So you're limited in one visit to buying 60 beers, 60 cans of cider, 12 bottles of wine, two 5-litre wine boxes, two bottles of spirits plus two cases of whatever "ready to drink" is. Strong measures from our Aussie cousins.

Sweden’s population density is 25 per sq km. England’s is 430 per sq km. i think the Swedes can afford to be a bit more relaxed.

speak for yourself, dude. I say f**k 'em. I'd like to see them sail out en masse to the middle of the North Sea, scuttle their craft, and sink forever from human history. this'll win me no friends among the League One community, I suspect.

Well f**k it, I’ll have a crack: This isn’t racist, but in Madagascar, as soon as you hit puberty the village headman ties you to a... Hold on, will start again: This isn’t racist, but instead of toilets, your average Goan shits in a... Christ. Tougher than it looks.

End of week 1 of quarantine in France and it’s been fine. Streets are deserted bar the odd jogger or dog-walker. Weather’s been great and I’ve spent most of the time reading on the balcony. Kids are doing a couple of hours schoolwork a day, the rest of the time messing about, playing computer games. I think we can easily get through another 4/5 weeks like this.. keep the faith, brothers.

Try Therese Raquin. Very accessible sex/murder romp.

‘Working’ from home is doing great things for my reading. I’m onto Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pecuchet now after Fante’s Brotherhood of the Grape. Next up, Simone de Beauvoir and Witold Gombrowicz. After that, Finnigans Wake. I guess I should thank the fuckwit who thought it was a good idea to eat a pangolin.

Nice to see the Bud Light being scorned by even the most deranged panic-buyers