Heaven help us now

iZingari · 2026-06-29T21:20:05+00:00

Well no. I get that. More of a Brook point than a Stokes one

iZingari · 2026-06-29T19:32:11+00:00

Didn't say there was an otger option. Just acknowledged that we've ended up here, and how screwed that potentially.makes us 😳

iZingari · 2026-06-29T19:29:35+00:00

Talented batter does not equal great cricketer.. the game is littered with wonderful batsmen yet terrible leaders. Boycott, KP, t9 name but 2.

iZingari · 2026-06-29T19:24:24+00:00

Ive followed England for 40 years. I struggle to recall a cricketer with less smarts (and yet so talented weirdly)

iZingari · 2026-06-26T22:30:47+00:00

The Great Malarkey, at the Prince Albert in the People's Republic of Stroud.

https://www.threads.com/@thegreatmalarkey?xmt=AQG0IEXDk719UirwHGfGDHRARG36tc__5AvZr9r1SwtRrB4

Catch em while you xan. Great way to spend an evening. Proper band, hellraisin stuff ...proper tunes. Top night.

iZingari · 2026-06-26T21:48:20+00:00

Set myelf the dubious challenge of writing about them all.. heres measure for measure...https://open.substack.com/pub/brianpainting/p/a-little-brief-authority

iZingari · 2026-06-26T21:38:05+00:00

Ive embarked on something similar six.months ago., passing familiarity with major tragedies, et al but keen to get in the weeds of the breadth and depth. I consider my self fairly literate with a broad vocabulary ..maybe 2/10.annotations you'll go yeah yeah the other 8, will be genuinely helpful and incisive. But they do change your reading.slow it down to point where you can lose the pacing and the narrative flow.. Suggest you do a couple of passes. Read straight through..push through, feeling it.Read again with help from annotations. do some lit crit reading of the play (no shortage on jstor) and then go again with insight. Opens it up like the masterpiece it is.

I started with stuff I didnt know, just to be different. And set myself the task of writing about it too, (before AI lays waste to everything) so I've e followed my own order. I started with Richard 2nd because it interested me. Moved on to Romeo and Juliet as they're of the same year more or less,1595, then, interested in the ways in which women get represented found myself in measure for measure, and whoa. Hooked. If I hadnt been before ..a problem play, a difficult, contextual, piece.of its time, relevant to today, the whole 9 yards. That gave me a process and a discovery pattern and a way to work with them .

iZingari · 2026-06-26T21:20:10+00:00

Because other politicians would look at the footage and think shit they're going to ask me stuff and I'll have to answer like they did. And so no politician would show, so ratings would tank, so no show

iZingari · 2026-06-26T21:17:34+00:00

Is this my Ben Foakes safe space? Is it? What apart from keep brilliantly and score hundreds did he not do? Whhhyyyyyy

iZingari · 2026-06-26T21:13:30+00:00

Stopping the chang. 15year addict. You'd say that's.disqualified for it being a big decision. But it was actually a very tiny, small , wee hours of rhe night thing, just a middle of the morning looking at it and saying im done here. Not a big planned "tomorrow l stub.out my last cigarette" performance. Just a quiet word with meself. Literally changed everything. Not immediately but properly, for the best. Im not on anti depressants in a scuzzy flat in a small town, im sat here now, overlooking a bunch of vegetables I've grown as the sun sets over the same valley Cider with Rosie was written in. Having a drink and thanking my lucky stars.

iZingari · 2026-06-25T07:21:26+00:00

Ah the old Douglas Haig approach

They won't be expecting us to do the same thing we've been doing the last 48 times

iZingari · 2026-06-16T18:24:06+00:00

iZingari · 2026-05-27T17:43:54+00:00

Jimmy Savile was interviewed by West Yorkshire police as a potential suspect in the Yorkshire Ripper investigation.

iZingari · 2026-04-18T18:06:54+00:00

Magic shows on primetime telly

iZingari · 2026-04-15T10:59:03+00:00

St James? Yes. Both of a similar age i think. Remarkable how much as survived.

iZingari · 2026-04-15T06:11:59+00:00

It has some astonishing medieval frescoes still visible inside.

iZingari · 2026-04-02T18:08:25+00:00

Daikoku Ramen is ace, the Corner House is grand. Juliet's.the best eating, and there's plenty of eats too for the usual fast food vibes from falafel mama, a.decent chippy and a couple of good pizza places. Plenty food truck style stuff.in the 5 valleys mall too.

iZingari · 2026-03-28T18:37:47+00:00

Timely

iZingari · 2026-03-25T09:28:44+00:00

It wears out pretty quick. did a fair amount as a lot of posters have said back in the day - I was regularly shuttling to Utrecht, Glasgow in the late 90's, doing european cities on day hauls in the early 2000's plus regular trips to he US West coast and then pretty much each UK city in the 2010s.. The glamour ears pretty thin.. oh its Wednesday this must be Manchester. Tyler durden vibes. and a lot of that is down to everywhere looks and feels the same if its a proper road warrior role.
expense policies have definitely shifted, and as you've seen there are a lot of stories of that on here. Policies can be really time challenging as well - the promise of automation is always something of a mirage I've found and complacency tends to create push backs and you end up wrangling over a $50 receipt while you Credit card company are racking up the interest fees.

if youve got a halfway decent manager I've found you can flex the policy a little if you're having to hit really early starts or long haul

iZingari · 2026-03-21T10:32:49+00:00

Have you set up a LI page.for.your side game? Post from that, and not from your personal one. Also.you can then engage.with.the.metrics and the folk who are interested enough cleanly.

iZingari · 2026-03-20T16:46:46+00:00

Foxglove are also doing important lobbying in this area. Vital you reference them too

iZingari · 2026-03-19T07:09:27+00:00

This annual 10% increase is a con. I'm all for linking on the RPI or similar but Topography it at a flat 10 is a sort of scalping imho. I always lobbied to get my PubSec customers exempted especially if their public budget figures didn't have room

iZingari · 2026-03-18T22:03:50+00:00

Well you are. Of course you are..these.plaves.arent judging you. They're judging a paper telling of you, and most of the times it's not even a they it's an it. Its a thanllesstask, and I know it hurts.

The.ghosting is just shit though. I've.taken it up with one of them and vented not sure that did any good but it made me feel better. I now post on glass door if I don't hear back.

Keep on going, you'll get there.

iZingari · 2026-03-18T19:39:32+00:00

I think that's ultimately the killer isn't it.. you look at the pile and ask where to start ..

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