Colin Davey

youtube.com/watch?v=OVxi... Pure poetry.

app.the-tls.com/214759/conte... I feel seen, as the youths say. Greetings, fellow decrepits.

Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands, in northern Scotland, remain a fundamental part of the landscape. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/3hepma

Taking my business away from Substack. Going back to Medium: medium.com/@colin_davey

Sitting in The Strand (pub), unsubscribing from Substack subscriptions, which is like pulling teeth, with Call Me F****** Al on the jukebox. Worst Sunday drinks since the Tina Turner tribute act.

From the TLS "More than nine billion tins of Spam have passed through the world’s gastrointestinal tracts ad thirteen tins are eaten every second." Bloody. Vikings.

In the pub. There's a dispute, namely, "Where's my Guiness?" Turns out the barman had, oddly, heard "Innes" and poured a glass of Innes and Gunn, a lovely Scots oddity. Meanwhile, thirsty me. If Gunn had been the senior partner, we'd be there yet.

Whatever you do, don't call it "Brit Card" . True cringe.

It seems you can only read Samuel Beckett sober, which seems all wrong.

I have an AA Milne / Samuel Beckett mashup going. I think I can make ir work. --"Eeyore's Last Tape." Anyone? #GiveItAGo

It's like Captain Pike in The Cage. Two bleeps for yes, one for no, are no basis for a form of government. Yet the USA is either MIA Democrat (boo) or MAGA (hooray).

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Words of frightening truth,

I was at a wedding last weekend. As usual, a group photograph was to be taken after the ceremony, outdoors on the front steps of the hall. The photographer calls “Is everyone out?” From behind me, a voice: “ Man, it's a gay marriage. Everyone's out who's coming out!”

youtu.be/eO0jkjo2NkU?... The girl singer here has a "perfect" blues voice. But who would have thought how far she could take it? Glorious singing.

When paid subscriptions are easy to set up but are all at "beware of the leopard" levels to cancel, I get all funny about it and go a bit mad. Sorry to any cool Substack providers I have unsubscribed from as collateral damage. I may be back if you behave. #GoodnightSeetheart

For how many years has she been telling us that "Thunder Only Happens When It's Raining", the fakest of fake news? Yet we're no nearer believing it than we were then. We CAN if we try,

"Free Rein" doesn't need a g in it, for God's sake. Why do people do this?

New cooker was delivered today. The last time I saw her this happy, it didn't cost £5000 , just a bottle of Pinot and a hand on the thigh. Oh tempora.

Let me introduce you to 70s band #Fruup. They didn’t always nail it so they never made it out of Div. 2, but when they did it was beautiful. Saw them in Dunstable a lifetime ago. youtu.be/DNmdII3V4iE?...

"This week, I are mostly been speaking Proto-Indian-European."

You're in America. Speak Proto-Indo-European-Commanche-Spanish or go back to wherever you came from, Commie.

It's my birthday today. I have been bought scarves and hats. And the pub has Christmas hits - "Snow is Falling" - playing. So, Merry Christmas, everyone. Nights are drawing in.

Did Covid-19 kill blow-football?

4 views 0 Likes. Immortality beckons. Shall I do a Ted?

70 next week. Fuck that.

My football hot take: the professional high ground lies at roughly the level of Burton Albion. Above this line is corruption, financial doping, dishonesty, and big-time crookedness.

If Thomas Frank leaves Brentford, Brentford should see if they can afford Ange's wages. They'll finish higher, I reckon, mate.

Known Unknowns. There are known things about Trump that are bad enough on their own. There are "known" things, covered up. There are things that "everybody knows." When he's done, run out on a rail & gone, everyone will say they always knew & how did we fall for it? Like Savile but 100% bigger.

open.substack.com/pub/colindav... I did a Substack about the Hay Festival.

"Pass the beer nuts, Woody". Strangely sad about George Wendt.

I see Ron and Russell Mael are at the airport. Sparks will fly.

Reading W Somerset Maugham's "A Weiters Notebook" for a Thing. Tagging in @iammilliam.bsky.social in case he wants to borrow it.

Off to Shrewsbury this morning, where ten years of unbroken League One service will now be coming to an end. Please share etc :-) unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/farewell-s...

Jamie Vardy is looking after himself. Good to see. 👍🏻

What size drill bit do you need to make a glory hole? Asking for a friend. Well, not a friend as such.

I went to the pub, having, as I thought, posted a fascinating and thought-provoking post on Substack.com. In a spirit of self-flagellation, I opened the app to marvel at all my unnoticed typos and repetitions, only to find it wasn't there at all. Home, James. No, a pint of Abbot, then home.

What a fine site omniglot.com is. Am exploring the Shavian Alphabet ("Get a life" ("𐑜𐑧𐑑 𐑩 𐑤𐑲𐑓"), says my brother), but omniglot is the mother of all rabbit-holes.

Never even saw Nosfera One, so no, not tonight.

I am a member of a respected local writers' group which has strict and good rules about AI in our writing. However, in a project I have used ChatGPT to establish some fixed historical points to avoid anachronism; my writing is my own but I use AI to avoid stupid factual mistakes. Am I a bad man?

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

#Football words that don't mean what you'd expect them to. Part 1 of, probably, up to 2). "Permanent" (Cambridge Dictionary- "lasting for a long time or for ever") . Football Example: "Everton have had 9 permanent managers in the last 10 years". Next time: "Championship "

PODCAST IS UP, FRIENDS 🍬🤠

It's only Thursday so you can't have #FallFruday yet. You can have #TheCramos though. music.youtube.com/watch?v=OuFL...

Recommend this book: it's dead good.

@twoht.bsky.social Wife and I are putting together a short sitcom based at a small football club for our writers group. If we get through the sift we may get it performed. Would love to use "Oh the football" as a start & end. Full credit given & invitation for you +1, which you could safely ignore.