Miggins

Pain and suffering.
 

Battery farming 

Love Island 

Or one black and one white. 

Have you had complaints about smelly feet ?

Will they be local players for our local team ? 

I did the same a few years ago. Had been in secondary teaching for over 25 years but it was hollowing me to nothing. Resigned and got a patchwork of jobs that I could control.

Bit of an update , been off work for 3 weeks. Realised it was the problem and handed in my notice 

not wishing to downplay your worries in any way shape or form, and would never tell you how to feel about a beloved family member, but I have vast experience in the contracting/redundancy and general lack of security, and as s*** as it is, I've found that as long as I pick myself up, dust myself down, and conduct myself properly, the rewards will come and the situation resolves itself, I hope that whatever happens workwise, you back yourself and your ability and you are fine.

Always hate this month as it would have been my dad's birthday. This year he'd have been 60. Also got the additional stress of my academic job contract running down and trying to work out if I'll get an extension or not... with my industry in the doldrums it's not a fun time to say the least. Also been feeling really down generally with work and struggling to find the motivation to finish what needs to be done. 

Geoffrey Palmer (the actor for Butterflies) once stopped to help my sister, who had broken down, and gave her a lift to Bakewell in his Bentley.
Boy, George just laughed and offered to buy me a drink when I told him his mixing was crap in the VIP bar at Heaven in London. I wasn't being nasty, I was just chemically enhanced. 
Matthew Parris was a fabulous local MP and a really nice guy, too.
 

I did a 52 book challenge last year. Essentially it was to read a book a week every week. It was an absolutely brilliant way to force yourself to make reading a habit and explore a variety of genres. Here’s the 52:
War Horse (Michael Morpurgo)
All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis)
Leviathan Wakes (James. S. A. Corey)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) 
Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer) 
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
Mortal Engines (Stanislaw Lem)
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (Harold Schechter)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe) 
The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Hustler (Walter Tevis)
Why I Write (George Orwell)
The Poppy War (R. F. Kuang) 
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
A Psalm for the Wild Built (Becky Chambers) 
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)
Lapvona (Ottessa Moshfegh)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham) 
The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)
The Story of Kullervo (J. R. R. Tolkien)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke) 
The Talented Mr Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
Island (Aldous Huxley)
Tokyo Express (Seicho Matsumoto)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
The Centauri Device (M. John Harrison)
Where the Wild Ladies Are (Matsuda Aoko)
Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy)
Doomsday Clock (Geoff Johns) 
Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat)
The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)

Kylie Minogue
Billy Connolly

After my drive up the M6 today, I would say Dave Myers of Hairy Bikers fame.
Day for Dave was today and reportedly 10000-25000 bikers made their way to Barrow in Furness in charitable tribute to Dave.
I started noticing spectators on bridges over the M6 around Staffordshire, then when traffic came to a halt, must've seen 1000 bikes weaving through. It was quite an impressive spectacle.

Eric Morecambe 
Roy Orbison
Steve Wright 
 

Lllly Savage

From my young niece to my Dad...all the family loved Rik Mayall. Me personally, followed his career since 'A Kick up the Eighties' and the Kevin Turvey character. Met him once after a standup show. He was very polite to myself and others. Happy to stay and do chat/autographs/pictures. We could not believe it when he passed away.

Stephen Fry
David Attenborough 

Michael Palin
 

I am by no means itk and would never claim to be. But I am in Thailand travelling and managed to bump into Sibley. By the way he talked to me it seems he hasn’t actually made a decision yet. He could just have been trying to be nice but who knows. Was a sound lad and was with ex academy goalie Harrison Foulkes.

Ticketmaster's internet security. 
Cough medicine. 
Anything that says it will stop dogs chewing. 
Leeds support guaranteeing a swift return to this Premier League. 
Any electrical device that's spent more than 17 minutes in my shed. 
Dental anaesthetic more than .001mm away from the point of injection.
Telling people to 'just do it'
Using facts in any argument with Mrs Badger.
  
 
 
 

I'll start. Peel off stickers on supermarket flowers 

He passed us on the way up the A46 on Friday... 

 

If you have the space….Buy a nice tree, and plant it together…pick one that you  feel connected to.
Then over the years the tree will grow, hopefully mirroring your love for each other.
We plant trees for special occasions, each one holding memories of that period in our relationship.
My partner often talks about how these trees are doing, and we reminisce about what we were doing around the time that a particular tree was planted …if it’s a fruit trees she also takes great delight in using the fruit in recipes for family and friends….seeing this fruit as being born from love…kind of sympathetic magic if your into that sort of thing
The trees are symbolic of our love for each other, for Mother Earth and of the spiral dance.
 

For Christmas I bought Mrs ilkley a number of things/events online - theatre ticket, film, meal out, spa day, flowers delivered every month type of things.  It's the easiest shopping and wrapping (6 envelopes) I've ever done and it's the gift that keeps on giving - the last event is in July.
For example, if he likes books but not your choice(s) plan a morning out in a bookshop with you both where you buy the books he chooses and then go out to lunch.  You can do the same/similar with your dad.  Part of the gift is time with you.