Alistair King

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Setting up a second home here in case Twitter becomes unliveable.

As with Twitter, I tend to post a mix of amateur political commentary, idle thoughts and whimsy, silly jokes, puzzles and trivia.

LiveAnd let live
LoveLove will tear us apart again
LaughI nearly did
When a sign at a ten-pin bowling venue looks like an introduction to differential calculus that’s been translated from English into Japanese and then back into English.
Is your 12-year-old son as terse in WhatsApp messages as mine was here when letting me know it was acceptable for me to enter the birthday party venue from which I was collecting him?

Enjoying cheesecake and a latte in a Persian café by the North Circular after dropping my son off at a godawful bowling venue for a birthday party. I got here quite quickly because *I ran*.

(I didn’t; I walked. But you have to allow some artistic licence for a joke this classy.)

Wretched daughter. Weekends without much planned are 48-hour-long exercises in demonstrating the truth in the maxim that the devil makes work for idle hands.
Should I take this at face value or is it a backhanded compliment?