{"id":11989,"date":"2025-05-02T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=11989"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:03:37","slug":"11989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/02\/11989\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:858,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/uk.bookshop.org\\\/p\\\/books\\\/thatcher-stole-my-trousers-alexei-sayle\\\/4746898?ean=9781408864548&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:859,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Alexei_Sayle%27s_Stuff&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251217041146\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Alexei_Sayle%27s_Stuff&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 20:54:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 20:54:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:860,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=7MqMZ6XqMfc&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250914084400\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=7MqMZ6XqMfc&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 20:54:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 14:44:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 00:46:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 06:50:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-20 18:06:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-27 20:45:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 18:18:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 02:39:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 09:33:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 13:22:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 15:52:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 06:24:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:14:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 17:21:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 09:52:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 21:48:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 18:21:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 17:58:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 07:18:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-18 17:09:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-22 12:38:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-28 07:30:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-03 19:55:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-07 16:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-11 10:04:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-22 23:07:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-22 23:07:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/thatcher-stole-my-trousers-alexei-sayle\/4746898?ean=9781408864548\" title=\"Bookshop.org: Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle\">Thatcher Stole My Trousers<\/a><\/em> by Alexei Sayle. This is his second autobiography, covering the period after he left school to the early 1980s, by which time he had become a popular live comedian. Sayle is one of those people whom I have vague fond memories of from my childhood, but I didn\u2019t really know much about. His TV programme <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexei_Sayle%27s_Stuff\" title=\"Wikipedia: Alexei Sayle\u2019s Stuff\">Alexei Sayle\u2019s Stuff<\/a><\/em> seemed edgy to me when I was 11 years old. I also remember when people used to burst into singing the title of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7MqMZ6XqMfc\" title=\"YouTube: Alexei Sayle \u2014 Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?\">\u2019Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?<\/a><\/em> without warning. An enjoyable journey through his years of leaving home and starting a career.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DraggedImage.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DraggedImage.png 1500w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DraggedImage-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DraggedImage-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DraggedImage-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DraggedImage-700x393.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MqMZ6XqMfc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/02\/11989\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><div class='e-content p-summary'>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle. This is his second autobiography, covering the period after he left school to the early 1980s, by which time he had become a popular live comedian. Sayle is one of those people whom I have vague fond memories of from my childhood, but I didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11983,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/weeknotes-322-scoop-of-banana\/","url_meta":{"origin":11989,"position":0},"title":"Weeknotes #322 \u2014 Scoop of banana","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"28 April 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The second of a series of four four-day working weeks. 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