The Lads

19/05/2026

Nothing says "day off in May" like torrential rain and an afternoon fire 🐒🐒🐒

12/05/2026

Mick Morris popped into the commune to see his brother Nick after picking up his daily newspaper. The Lads were looking concerned about the growing Reform vote. "Will we all have to go back to where we came from?" queried Kelvin in an unusually quiet voice. "Everyone apart from Karl" Mick replied, "He's from Mevagissey. We all come from China so we'll definitely be on the hit list. At least we know we like the food! And there's pandas!" Randy looked confused. "I'm from Milwaukee" he reminded the group, "Will I be sent back there? I miss my folks but I've kinda got used to it here". "You'll be ok Randy" Mick stated confidently, "No one'll send you back while the orange tosser's in charge". "Oi oi, watch your language!" challenged Nick, squaring up to his brother, "I'm ginger, not orange!"

09/05/2026

Norris is such a kind and thoughtful chap. He hadn't seen the Girl Child for ages so invited her out for lunch at her favourite restaurant as well as for some shopping. At the end of their outing his heart was fuller while his wallet was significantly emptier 🐵🐵🐵

21/04/2026

Despite their disappointment at not going to Majorca The Lads were determined to make the best of it. The bed was large and comfortable, it wasn't raining (yet) and they were promised a seal spotting trip tomorrow. How exciting!

16/04/2026

Behold...the face of disappointment 😥 The Landlady had tried to persuade Leaky Lee that they should go somewhere on holiday that didn't look exactly like North Devon, where there was a chance of at least a glimmer of sunshine and low probability of horizontal driving rain and gale force winds. Cornwall it is then...again 🤬🤬🤬

23/03/2026

Norris was puzzled by the appearance of exercise equipment in the Jolly Lady's massive kitchen coupled with the absence of any exercise activity. "Don't worry Norris" she reassured, "I'm visualising doing exercise which is, some say, better than actually exercising as it entirely eliminates the risk of injury!" Norris visualised crisps.

13/03/2026

10/03/2026

Wade was bored and had access to a device. "I want a picture of a very handsome white monkey in a rainbow sweater riding a fairground horse!" He waited...and waited...and waited some more. "This AI is rubbish!" he exclaimed, "They look nothing like me!"

08/03/2026

Members of the commune and friends met at a local cafe for Sunday lunch. In the spirit of International Womens Day and to celebrate women being allowed to earn their own money, Leaky Lee had lost his wallet in Tescos, Farmer Dave had forgotten his wallet and Wade was nowhere to be seen. The girls picked up the tab, thankful for the freedom to be able to go out to work as well as do everything at home 🤔

08/03/2026

Randy and Karl had returned to the commune to help the Landlady build her underground bunker. She'd been heard muttering about deranged orange 🛎ends. (Luckily, big trousers were back in fashion so they were quietly optimistic about getting rid of the earth). Randy was feeling embarrassed to be American...if anyone asked about his accent he told them he was from Toronto 😬