Paul Cheesmond

@Joust_A_Minute It’s using your eyes you should worry about

I spend way too much time worrying that one day someone may use my thumb to unlock my phone after I’m dead.

@janiesherb You are one of the three reasons I still check in here once in a while, Janie. You are a delight 🤗 I still owe you a gig! 🤗

Just me and my rosacea and my 52 years and my not giving a bugger about any of those things because I still get to laugh lots.

@ont_stoop Sorry to hear about medical travails. I’m not currently using BSky but that may change. All the best 😊

@Liddlevoice Vile soup of maga continues. Have you been on bsky now and again- at least it's not trumpville and some of your pals are regulars. Currently in hospital - broke my foot. That was 3 weeks ago- been in hosp for a week- they're now trying to get me mobile. Will be off foot weeks+

Last night in Australia (for 2025 anyway) so here’s an upside down Orion from my walk back to the flat (as taken by my unfiltered iPhone X). I know it’s not spectacular 🙄

@ont_stoop Back in UK but rarely on X now. Might check in occasionally but not excited by content these days. Unless tagged it seems difficult to see through fog 😢

@Liddlevoice Now 11 days later- no news

@ont_stoop My pen has run dry 😢

@Liddlevoice no poem from you on world poetry day?

A diversion for me when travelling is to download and listen to past editions of Desert Island Discs from #BBCSounds. Today I listened to the Ebony Rainford-Brent edition. Former cricketer and now commentator she was eloquent and moving about her life and career. I loved it.

@ont_stoop Hmm….for me it’s more trepidation than excitement 😐

@Liddlevoice Excitement building - has the bug caught up to you with cup fever C'mon Tooooooooooon

@SoccerMomma12 I’ve been here since mid-Jan. returning to Scotland early April 😊

@SoccerMomma12 Hah! It’s 2:00am here. I’m now going to bed for reasons connected with alcohol and craic. Will I wake up for morning coffee with family? Will I catch pm flight to Perth? Is AI existential threat to humanity? Will Ncle win the Carabao Cup final? Answers in the fullness of time 🙄

@ont_stoop I will be in Perth WA so KO I think is 12:30 am for me. I’m not sure I have the motivation to cheer at a TV when the outcome is likely to be disappointment.

@Liddlevoice Are you putting in a night shift watching the carabao final live over there? Will it be a pub/bar?

Paddy Faddles at the Link and Pin in #WoyWoy It’s Blues Night!

@ont_stoop Thanks for concern. It appears to be avoiding me 😊

@Liddlevoice buckle down lidvox -on the news(beeb) i've just seen cyclone alfred is coming to raise hell - oowah

The post second world war settlement - laws and institutions that constrain rogue states and remove barriers to trade - has disproportionately benefited the rich countries of the west, Japan and China. But it underpinned the most sustained period of peace and rising prosperity in recorded history. So it is both shocking and extraordinary that in just the past few days the president of the country that has benefited most, the US, has shredded that settlement. His assault on free trade with his tariffs is already squeezing living standards and slowing growth in his own country The whole world will also be poorer. However it is his decision to suspend military aid to the democracy of Ukraine while praising the autocracy of Putin‘s Russia that is the most alarming. It’s the end of an alliance between Europe and America that has defended our freedoms and our way of life since most of us were born. Why would Donald Trump do this? The only explanation is that he sees himself as the modern global equivalent of a feudal Lord, even perhaps a character in a real life Game of Thrones. He is carving up the world and its spoils with China’s Xi and Russia’s dictator Putin So the big question for Starmer, Macron, and Germany’s soon-to-be chancellor Merz, plus the other leaders of Europe, is whether they can collectively take our fate back into our own hands, by simultaneously expanding our militaries and our defence industries, while belatedly and radically re-engineering our stagnant economies. There are already important signs they get it. The point is that if we in Europe can’t stand up for liberty. democracy, fraternity and equality, who will? There is an old saying that you should never waste a crisis. If we waste this one, the epoch- defining history Trump is thrusting on us will do us and our children incalculable harm. Sorry about that.

@ChizzyTwiX @ont_stoop @albolt76 @Zeddeee @Gmackematix @HeWhoCaresNot @aBitSquirrely @FionaMNT @rahhead01 @SoccerMomma12 @garygilligan @Fiery40 @Johntum64 @dennysunderland 😍😍😍

Thanks so much to everyone (whether listed or not) for your support of #PaddyFaddlesQuiz @ont_stoop @albolt76 @Zeddeee @Gmackematix @HeWhoCaresNot @aBitSquirrely @FionaMNT @ChizzyTwiX @rahhead01 @SoccerMomma12 @garygilligan @Fiery40 @Johntum64 @dennysunderland

@ont_stoop @albolt76 @Zeddeee @Gmackematix @HeWhoCaresNot @aBitSquirrely @FionaMNT @ChizzyTwiX @rahhead01 @SoccerMomma12 @garygilligan @Fiery40 @Johntum64 @dennysunderland It is indeed 😢

@Liddlevoice @albolt76 @Zeddeee @Gmackematix @HeWhoCaresNot @aBitSquirrely @FionaMNT @ChizzyTwiX @rahhead01 @SoccerMomma12 @garygilligan @Fiery40 @Johntum64 @dennysunderland be niuce to have another one-if only to cheer things up in this fecked up world-and is it fecked up and a half

@SoccerMomma12 @ThatAlexWoman ill-mannered FFS 🤦‍♂️

@SoccerMomma12 @ThatAlexWoman As expected, Starmer was the adult in the room. Holding his line in a measured tone while dealing with loud, boastful and I’ll-mannered children.

Hopefully, we're about to see how whipped Starmer is by Trump! 🙏 I predict he'll be 🏝 Told to scrap Chagos scam 👮‍♂️ Told to control borders 🏭 Told to lay off Net Zero 🪖 Told to invest in defence 🇪🇺 Told not to cosy up to EU 💬 Told to protect free speech Suddenly grateful to have a weak, witless PM 😆 Let's hope Trump can Make Britain Great Again! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 💪

@RainbowChazer Indeed! But not all 😊

@Liddlevoice Agreed. But Aussies can also be feisty, tough, direct and forceful.

This is an observation not a generalisation or criticism: In #Australia more conversations are held in loud voices in public than typically in the UK. Frequently they are about private matters such as health, money and family issues. I sometimes find myself quite engaged 🙄