I’ve just been to Brentford vs Everton and I invited my refugee ( now with right to remain ) buddy, Omer.
I met Omer about 4 years ago, not long after he’d fled Turkey ( where he’d been jailed for writing something truthful about the President Erdogan )

Omer’s English vocabulary has improved no end since I met him, but his pronunciation is possibly even worse than it was 4 years ago.
I always tell him the same thing when I see him – sort out your English. Listen to well spoken Brits on the BBC etc and you’ll be far more employable. Somehow though it doesn’t seem to have sunk in.

I’ve been here for decades. Imagine if I said ‘ come by year will you butt and we’ll go out now in a minute ‘ .. just like I used to.
I’d never have got a job.

I had to listen to the BBC News and programs like To the Manor Born.

Look at me now – posh as anything.

I’ve just been to Brentford vs Everton and I invited my refugee ( now with right to remain ) buddy, Omer.
I met Omer about 4 years ago, not long after he’d fled Turkey ( where he’d been jailed for writing something truthful about the President Erdogan )

Omer’s English vocabulary has improved no end since I met him, but his pronunciation is possibly even worse than it was 4 years ago.
I always tell him the same thing when I see him – sort out your English. Listen to well spoken Brits on the BBC etc and you’ll be far more employable. Somehow though it doesn’t seem to have sunk in.

I’ve been here for decades. Imagine if I said ‘ come by year will you butt and we’ll go out now in a minute ‘ .. just like I used to.
I’d never have got a job.

I had to listen to the BBC News and programs like To the Manor Born.

Look at me now – posh as anything.

Lovely to see my Uni mucker, Charlie P, the other day. We went to the theatre ( well a comedy night at a theatre ). Like 2 old queens going out. Except straight fellas.

It was Hamilton Jones, who fires off hundreds of one liners, most of them clever. Often he’d be halfway through the next joke before I got the last one. It was like a funny intelligence test.
Ha!Milton, his show is called- and not anything to do with the Founding Fathers, or a play featuring a lot of actors of completely the wrong race for the parts.

I’d had very little sleep the night before, which didn’t help much. That along with a lot of red wine at the top of The Shard on a date, no less.

I think I was soaked through 6 times in a row of going out. That kinda puts you off going out and I’m glad I’ve got a very nice TV as I’ve never used it so much.
Apparently it gets warmer next week. Thank F for that.

I’m seeing that new Bridget Jones soon. I’m not a particular fan of the BJ films, but the MILF / Cougar thing is gaining such traction.
Apparently MILF is the most searched word on porn sites. What’s that about? When I was 21, 23 was too old lady for me. A grown up woman of 50 would have been more of a nightmare proposition than a fantasy. I think young men have difficulty pulling their own age girls because half of them are now more interested in other girls.
It’s clearly a good time to be a girl/ middle aged woman, and a shite time to be a young bloke.
I think every woman I’ve talked to online has been propositioned by at least 5000 twenty two year olds.

Great to see Roy the Boy the other day, and SuzySue at another theatre thing called Sathnam Sanghera How British imperialism changed the globe. Very interesting and very well balanced. No ancestors were harmed in the making of this production. For a change.

Me n Suz are going to Richard 11 tomorrow and this time i know it’s in ye old Shakespearian.
So this time im getting familiar with the plot before i go. Ha!