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Cake day: March 17th, 2024

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  • To drink: Beer if I’ve had a long and tiresome day. I like malty dark beers best, like stout or heather ale, but on a hot day a wheat beer is pleasantly refreshing. If I’m already in a good mood and want to really take the time to savour something, whisky (Scottish or Japanese ideally, not generally keen on Irish or American but will give things a shot). Gins and red wines are welcome. If it’s earlier in the day or I don’t want alcohol, I am a big fan of slowly working my way through a cafetiere of coffee

    To eat: I love stuffed green olives as a snack, but when blackberries or redcurrants are in season I will grab those instead a lot of the time. Nice bread and balsamic is a strong choice too

    To listen to: Very mood dependent, as music often is. Old blues standards are fantastic to really relax with. Power, black, or prog metal are great when I want to devote more attention to the music and get absorbed in the energy. Scottish and Irish folk music and adjacent rock/pop stuff is where I go for daydreaming and creativity. Jazz, other types of folk music, post-rock, and 90s/00s alt rock might be where I wander sometimes









  • Politically, I’ve historically voted Lib Dem but get grief for being a yellow Tory. I’m like bitch I can’t stand the Tories - but there’s no Green candidate in my area, and I just want to start pushing the stats towards the left to make it more appealing for parties to field more social or left-leaning candidates.

    I’m lucky enough to have a better option in my part of the UK, but for so long as we have FPTP then I am completely with you that tactical voting for the least bad viable option is the best strategy on election day. I’ve said to friends that I would even vote Tory… if that was the only opposition to Reform in my constituency. Less bad is always still less bad, even if it remains terrible in its own right