Evil Under The Sun is literally my favourite movie of all time, Jane Birkin...well if you've watched it you know!

Our neighbours have a lovely kitty called flynn who patrols our houses and means other cats don't poop in our garden. He's a tart for attention from us when they aren't in, and we got many pets in today. Everytime I think now is the time I won't be allergic and yet...

In honour of booking, we're drinking sake brought over for me from our fukui friends last year

Finally we'll be going and drinking fukui sake too.

Finally, I will get to Gonpachi in Roppongi with @popsiwinkle.bsky.social Known as the Kill Bill restaurant I've always wanted to go and during my year in Japan and during our 2019 trip I didn't get there. But this time...we've made a reservation!

Long weekend nearly here and looking forward to kicking it off with a book event at Waterstones Cardiff tonight - Storm Over Camelot, the closing party to what has been a magnificent Morgan Le Fay trilogy.

'Net zero will bankrupt us': LATEST Currently net zero sources are generating over 100% of our electricity demand (so we are exporting the surplus). Current cost as a result = minus £3.12 / MWh

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

How entirely unsurprising.

everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel.

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

Need to try these. For me - Groosham Grange and The Worst Witch were faves from my childhood (I have a dvd copy of the worst witch movie which everyone should watch for sexy Tim Curry Halloween Song). Modern alternatives - Percy Jackson and Skandar are big winners.

"I'm pleased to have this opportunity to update you" is good shit

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This is superb and I hope lots of arsenal fans read it because arsenal women's history is arsenal history.

Upstairs nearly done, halfway through and then back to normal thankfully!

Just had a solar panel salesman knocking on the door. I said no thank you, he wouldn't stop, I continued to say no thank you not right now & then he got arsey with me saying he was trying to say goodbye - no you weren't my dude, you were continuing to try & get me to change my mind when Ive said no.

Ryan Coogler accepts his first-ever Oscar to a standing ovation “To my parents who are here, thank you for making me believe in myself… Memories are all we have. I hope we give you some great ones.”

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

Michael B. Jordan has won Best Actor for ‘SINNERS’ at the Oscars. See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

Six nation hill @popsiwinkle.bsky.social and I will die on The wooden spoon is for teams who lose all their matches. Wales may end up last but by beating Italy we won't get the wooden spoon.

YouTube shorts influence has struck again - The Resident kept showing up, so I figured I'd give it a try. I'm already invested - all the tropes, insufferable characters, playing on the emotions. Pure drama and ridiculousness!

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“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

Good riddance. Sidenote: I used to live in a small welsh town called Chepstow and there was a rumour that Maxine Carr had been housed on her release in a flat above a local chippy next to a tesco express over the road from our house. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘If the Picts were not a cohesive ethnic group but a heterogeneous coalition of Iron Age tribes, as some scholars now think, what gave rise to the Scythian story? Given the absence of Pictish texts, we may never know.’ Barbara Newman on Britain’s origin stories. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I have been through Reform's manifesto for Wales so you don't have to. (Spoiler, there are a lot of holes in it) willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/scrutinisi...

This sounds amazing and will be going right onto my pre-order list!!

People like that just give me the ick

Excited to get reading these!

This is shit. I wish theyd stop being so fucking shit all the time.

Today is St David’s Day: patron saint of Wales, of course, but also of vegetarians and poets. He was reputed to have helped introduce bees to Ireland. He is famously quoted as saying “Gwnewch y pethau bychain”, meaning “Do the little things”. Small changes and good choices matter, especially now.

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Currently Reading: One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford Thanks to @lydscl.bsky.social for the recommendation. I was hooked from the very first paragraph. This book was supposed to go on my March TBR, but who can wait with a premise like this? 😄

I'm currently reading Boleyn Traitor, I also have The House of Boleyn to start. I've also read Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I & the Marquess House series - The Catherine Howard/Elizabeth Tudor/Arbella Stuart/Jane Seymour Conspiracy and have pre-ordered The Beheading Game. Very much back in my Tudor era!

This is a very scary page torn from the trump playbook. It needs to be stamped on now.

Love that bookshops close to me are holding events for authors/books I love! Pagans tonight was fantastic, thank you @jamesbluecat.bsky.social @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social Cardiff! Next, April: Sophie Keetch & the launch of Storm Over Camelot - a 5 star trilogy, cant wait!

@popsiwinkle.bsky.social has the flu so it's me, myself and I in Cardiff for the Pagans book event at Waterstones. But first dinner - Thai green curry time at Rosa's Cafe!

Wee bit gobsmacked at that one!

Finally watching Godzilla minus one / minus colour. I thought it would add to it, but it surprisingly hasn't (hasn't detracted from it either) so i feel better that I can't get the special editions with both versions. Still an incredible bit of filmmaking, still 5*. Can't wait for minus zero!

We made the decision a couple of weeks ago, news like this just makes the decision feel even better.

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration. The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation. On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.

He stacked that court so it must have been properly illegal to have such a big decision go against him!

Love that the BBC broke away from the Olympics this morning for this news!

I hope every rich nonce in the UK & beyond is brought down because three hours in a custody cell with no staff and vending machine coffee breaks Andrew like a dropped trifle

No. If someone makes a movie of my work, it’s because that someone was a human who found something in the work that spoke to them — and that they felt would be a story that spoke to a whole AUDIENCE of actual humans.

Cold, stormy night. Let’s curl up to a comfort movie. The comfort movie: