happily eva-after?

OK, I’d like to start this post of with a tip for all you married fellas
If you have a conversation with your wife that you start with, “…OK, so don’t be mad at me….BUT….”
She IS going to be mad at you
Instantly PISSED
Especially if you are Skyping each other from thousands of miles away
And you’re obviously hiding something behind your back, so she can’t see it

Then, in a big reveal, you bring around to the front what you’ve been hiding
AND IT’S A FUCKING DOG!

Yeah that.
That is what happened in my world last week
And it’s taken me days….DAYS I say, to calm down enough to share with you guys

I was SO pms ranty and yelling, “…Jesus motherfucking Christ, what is wrong with you?? Another dog?”

When the last ‘should we get another dog’ discussion we had, mentioned the words, absolutely not, and no fucking way, more than once. From both of us.
We have the Fluffinator. A 150 pound ball of white, barking fur.
And we adore him.
But he does NOT need a friend, for fuck’s sake
He is a (lovable) beast that is more than enough for one household thankyouverymuch.

I was thinking Diamond must have lost the plot since I’ve been away on tour.
Another dog! He’s gone fucking mental.
Can someone stop by and pick up my kids?
But……after having a few wines thinking about it though, it would seem it might in fact, be the opposite

Because…

A) I am on the other side of the world and can do nothing about it
B) it (better fucking be) will be toilet trained by the time I get back
C) she will be more a part of the family THAN ME when I eventually DO get home

Well fucking played Diamond
Well fucking played

Her name is Eva
She’s a Puggle
Which for the record, isn’t even a REAL breed of dog
It a bastard ‘BITSA’. Which is a bit of a Pug, and a bit of a Beagle.
I just saw them for sale at Harrods over here in the UK…..for £2,000
Yes, you read right. TWO THOUSAND POUNDS. As in $3100 US or Australian dollars.
For a fucking dog
Not. Joking.
I told Diamond this little ball of floppy black ears better have been found abandoned on the side of the road with a sign around her neck saying, “Free to good home”

But Magoo, bless her cotton socks, is forever looking on the bright side,

“…Mummy, I wanted a little brother, and I have Fluffy.
And then I wanted a little sister too, and now I have Eva.

And you didn’t even have to hatch her out of your pee pee!
You’re going to love her Mama!”

You know…..she might just be right.
Don’t you dare tell Diamond I said that.

norman the ninja

Can I just start this by saying, I am SO glad I don’t suffer from ornithophobia
Which is a fear of birds (you KNOW I had to google that shit)
Because yesterday, a bird the size of 2 footballs landed on the windowsill of my hotel room.
I was 9 floors up, and thought I’d open the window for some fresh air
And this ginormous fucking dude lands with a thud and scared the SHIT out of me so much
That I actually let out a total girly yelp 
And then……THEN!! The big fucker tried to come through the open window
And holy shit balls I can move fast if I need to
Because I jumped up and bolted to the window and  slammed it shut
Well, I WOULD have slammed it shut if his HEAD hadn’t of been in it 
Of course, then I felt like an arsehole
So I thought I’d share my grapes with him
He ate the SHIT out of them
And wouldn’t leave.
ALL. DAY.
Like, sat there staring at me
Watched me have a nap
Watched me get ready for work
I decided to call him Norman
And he turned out to be quite the perve 
And persitant
I hung some hand washing by the window before bed last night
Only to wake up this morning to Norman, half of one of my shirts in his beak, trying to PULL it through the gap in the window
He’d eaten half the blingy beads off it

MOTHER. FUCKER.

I was so tempted to feed him bourbon from the mini bar
Or stab him with my umbrella
But I decided he was doing it for attention
Looking for a friend, you know?

So I’m currently throwing grapes out the window as we drive to Swansea today
Hopefully pervey Norman can follow my trail of stupid

five finger family discount

Well lookie-lookie here!
Someone made a boo-boo and had the new RHYTHMS & ROOTS hats sent to my house
OR DID THEY??

Don’t care.
All I know is these, ‘strictly for giveaways’ on the RHYTHMS & ROOTS Facebook page and no I CAN’T have one so stop bloody asking’ hats, are sitting in a box in my music room. It’s like these bad boys WANT me to steal them!

And when they get picked up tomorrow to be sent out because I can’t be trusted not to give them away to all my buds to the winners, there’s a pretty good chance there’ll be one missing

OK, maybe two.