I’d be the worst vengeful ghost ever. My strategy with people I dislike is to ignore them. Catch a glimpse of nothing at all in the rearview mirror? Let that be a lesson. Thermostat a steady 20c? Wooo, haunted bitch. Had a peaceful, uninterrupted night’s sleep? KNOW YOU ARE FEELING MY WRATH.

so happy rn

More than a bit enchanted by first ep of Small Prophets. Want to live next door to Michael, buy his house and keep him safe. Man needs a preservation order, like a tree. The bugs and beasts our combined gardens would welcome. Not a metaphor.

We call Dewi, my daughter’s rescue, as black and as quicksilver as the small dragon, and made of chaos and clever and love, Toothless for this very reason.

Lots of people asking how to easily search the Epstein files. The DOJ search is rubbish. Other public searches don't have all the documents. Here are the instructions (for Linux). Anyone with moderate technical ability can do this within an hour or so. github.com/DanNeidle/ep...

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. That man he wants a lot.

A GIFT FOR YOU. A free download of the Cast Your Pod to the Wind lp awaits at www.TMBGshop.com. 23 TMBG rarities includes I’m Your Boyfriend Now, We Live in a Dump, Brain Problem Situation, and I Hear A New World w/ Robin Goldwasser. An Idlewild Recordings exclusive not to be on streaming sites.

Distracted, caught myself saying to Mr Bailey, ‘no, you’re going to have to sort yourself out, you’re an adult’. Mr Bailey is a tabby.

Currently watching The Sound Of Music and saying banger every time there’s a banger. I’m saying banger a lot.

I mean. Over half a kilo of crispy, crushed filo, baked with zesty orange custard, then drenched in orange cinnamon syrup. In the fridge til unclipped tomorrow, when it will hopefully have more structural integrity than me.

Woke in the wee worry hours, so food prep since 4. House smells of Ravneet Gill’s insta portolakopita. Incredible. Planning afternoon mega nap. If I play this Christmas Eve right I might get through without putting on a bra. Health and safety tho.

The world turns and here we are. Winter Solstice G&T & St Germaine with garden strawberries and golden raspberries picked on Summer Solstice. Warm cheers, all.

Annoying post. 👇 Trying to raise £300 to support Stockbridge Village Community food bank. Got £54.50 in the kitty so far. Please help! pay.collctiv.com/stockbridge-...

Trimmed it like a tree to WHAMTOPIA, and we’re doing this for real from now on. Daughter’s partner fixes the coffee equipment of NW eateries, so earned his first of what’ll many, many, many earliest convenience mulled wines this morning. Merry Christmas to the lad!

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

Labour's blinkered 'Build baby build’ agenda could speed up nature decline to the point of no return, conservation charities warn. Devastating to watch this happening, whilst knowing how close to the brink so many species are, already. #wildlife #nature www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/conserv...

He really does just pull it out of his arse, doesn’t he.

Please share this job opportunity here in Liverpool. Thank you v much. www.rootstowork.org/jobs/?job_id...

I swear it comes around faster every year 🎉

Rightio, we’ll find one. Keep using mouthwash.

Food people in my phone, your food looks lovely. I want to eat it. I don’t want to see you eating it. I know how to eat. Also, that shake / sundae / cocktail looks ever so nice in its glass. It doesn’t need to spill down the sides. Burger contents, too, can stay inside the bun. Yrs, with the ick.

Reading some northern hemi sadness at packing away summer clothes & am relieved to be unhampered enough by either fashion sense or taste in general to find wearing a light frock with woolly tights and a big jumper acceptable and encouraged. Also, Autumn beats summer, so.

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Lucky to top off a Suffolk week with @oliahercules.bsky.social and @felicityspector.bsky.social in conversation with @nicmiller.bsky.social as part of @burylitfest.bsky.social The heart, hope, family histories, food, friends, fight and spirit of Ukraine Thank you, all🇺🇦🌻

Tony Harrison and Brian Patten within a couple of days. That’s a snug 89 to 92 Bretton Hall nest on my bookcase. Travel well, both, and thank you 💚

Apparently same price on Kobo. My absolute favourite read of last year. It’s a balm. I cannot write reviews, my head just goes blurblurblur, but there is no better way to splash 99p.

For Interesting Holidays would absolutely work for me.

Had a 💯 Blackpool overnighter for Harry Hill reasons (30 yrs since we first saw him for our first together thing). Went a couple of miles up the coast this morning, following some Andor info. This being filmed at Thornton-Cleveleys is the weirdest. He was just a tourist, Disney+. Just a tourist.

Across the pond with Britbox US? If you fancy a period drama that properly rollicks along, from fish gutting at the docks to getting far fancier pants, I think Hardacres might stream from today. Special mention (inevitably) to Young Master Harry Hardacre, who’s away at the mo, filming s2.

This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Still available:

It’s new story day for me! “Dislocated” in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is about a support group for sufferers of long teleportation sickness and certainly has no resonance with real world events. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

This is incredible

Gen X women managed to time menopause perfectly so that the answer to the question "is everything actually as bad as it seems, or is it just me?" is "yes" and "yes." We are The Greatest Generation.

Instead of ELO in London with Mol and J (please get all better, Mr Lynne) this evening G is seeing Superman with Zig. Making them promise to belt out Mr Blue Sky when the man takes off (rumour has it he can FLY). That’ll make everything better. Am sure everyone will cheer.

I have one white currant bush. One. My one blackcurrant bush is doing this in negative (but is being patrolled by stripy lads from the spicy corner so I’ll leave that for a bit). Plenty more left. Such an abundant year for berries and currants and butterflies. Mini fruit trees also bonkers. 🌿🐝🦋

Me: so that looks like a cactus but you can touch it. It’s called a pickle plant. Don’t touch the one next to it though; that IS a cactus and will hurt. MrX, age 9: why would I want to touch it? Me, age 54: good question Zig, age 26:… have you heard of something called ‘call of the void’?

It’s taken 4 whole calender months & a bit out of Feb & July, a heap of incompetence and fibs, but I’m delighted to say the nicest wheelchair fixer in the world just turned up grinning on the ramp, with the lad’s repaired chair. Let’s talk again about fixing the system, and not #TakingThePIP

Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner

Turned 90° right of where I’m watching Pulp on catchup for this pic. Places we or kids or friends have been, people, things, snips, holding up doc appointments and WiFi passwords. Plans and places here and there, them and us, woven and glued and knotted. Magnetic.

PIP review form dated 9 days before it arrived. It has to be completed, returned and received 1 calendar month from the date on the form & says it may take 10 days to arrive back. Form requires detailed, multi qs responses + supporting evidence. This is supposed to be too easy? #TakingThePIP

Hang on, so if the road less travelled makes ALL the difference would taking the more travelled one make NO difference whatsoever, so I can avoid the suspension-wrecking track and take the one with the M&S Food and regular loo cleaning and still have all the stories and shit, but with Percy Pigs?

Decent little haul. A bit previous, but no plans to be in the raspberry patch at half three tomorrow morning. Opening for fizz and g&ts 21/12/25 if you’re passing. (After this pic I spotted a small, confused bug in the bag. Released it into the cosmos. Am not Lord Summerisle.)

Accurate. I miss rural Suffolk.

Hi. A resealable tab on a food packet is a false friend. Pass it on.

Such a good year for garden golden raspberries. Any Summer Solstice pickings on Friday/Saturday will go straight in the freezer to be added to a glass of something sparkling on the Winter Solstice, to help bring back the light. (Similarly, there will be garden blackcurrants in the Christmas gravy.)🌿

Who amongst us two days off a reasonable credit card bill doesn’t have a senior cat become poorly just as the clock ticks over from normal vet time to super shiny premium emergency vet weekend time? All good vibes for Mr. B very welcome.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tea. It’s tea. The king and queen of meals.