The first write up of Mistletoe & Vinyl was in, and it's LOVELY. You know where to go if you want to get hold of one. www.hintonmagazine.com/post/the-sto...

Apologies, I failed to elaborate. Hans Zimmer wrote the theme tune to Going for Gold. A tune. Sick day off school memories. So he could pay the bills. And then he made the beautiful soundtrack to Interstellar. Artists should be able to pay the bills to then be able create the music we love.

Might just be a bit excited about booking a ticket to see this at Chelmsford Cathedral on Halloween. An Essex girl called Tracy, born in Chelmsford, who studied astrophysics. Defying the stereotype. Music, the soundtrack to our lives. Interstellar was made for me. And I also love Going for Gold.

Tonight I am going in for a Fancy Dress and I am going as a squid.

Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder.

Amazing work from Amazon www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...

They've been laying fibre down my street this past week. Today's street works have been a satisfying watch. Someone has been pressure washing the entire street, with a big industrial power washer called Brendon Bowser.

I usually distract him with treats so I can leave the house, he follows me. He likes to play and hide. Today however I thought I'd see just how far he would go, expecting him to eventually stop following me. He did not stop, so we went back home, Dreamies were deployed, so I could then sneak out!

Tanzlinden are trees designed for dancing in. Found across Germany, the oldest is from the 1680s. The branches envelop a platform for meeting & dancing. henrykuppen.nl Happy Friday!

Carers know their rights.They fight for them every day, week, month and year. Local authorities, the DWP, the government, fail them. Carer charities need to step up. We do not need telling. We know. Tell those we fight. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carers-uk.bsky.social

The plan to build new towns has reminded me of my town's history. It was based on the Essex Design Guide back in the late '70s. And we had a song, chosen by Tony Blackburn in a competition. I asked the Essex Record Office to put it online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzkb...

Timeline cleanser 🐈

@leigh-day.bsky.social @johnpring.bsky.social Is there any news on the universal credit for disabled adult students issue? The DWP tell parents/carers their children are adults and should claim benefits in their own name, but those adult children are then turned down...

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

I’ll tell you, the other day some bloke came up to me and said you cunt, quote tweet this with some swearing to see if we can collectively tilt the data. I said you cunt, you fucking cunt. Who you fucking calling ‘cunt’, cunt?

That wasn’t Vicodin, that was paracetamol.

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

I had no idea I had paracetamol* to thank for being me. IQ of 155, degree in astrophysics, and got Rage to number one at Christmas. I work my arse off in my job. And I take photos like this...

Me on the way to the rapture.

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Rough time to be someone who gives a fuck about things

'Dogs in the Park, Kensington Gardens' by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson nicholashelyhutchinson.com

What is the collective noun for cunts?

BBC Radio 6 Music Lauren Laverne Now Playing Heaven 17 (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

It's like someone dumped a load of acid into the water supply and we're all tripping off our tits. What a fucking world.

Fuck off.

Breaking: Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does. "RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza." about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...

Housing disrepair scam or Windows technical support. It really confuses them when you answer saying what they are.

This guy

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

This is the most American day in American history.

Autumn is my favourite so delighted to hear geese flying overhead just now. A proper autumn thing.

This is good; "Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting" "So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

Bollards to you : street guard and railing posts to Broads's, the London based foundry & manufacturers of sanitary ironwork, manhole covers, gully covers & street furniture. From their c.1930 catalogue. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rrdpkW

Has the BBC News site changed the fonts recently? The words look different today. Or maybe I only just noticed.

@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social I've been arguing with Essex County Council for over a year now because they did not investigate properly a case where an employee gave hundreds of thousands of public money to her friends, whilst also paying others less than min wage. No rules followed at all. Fraud.

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I admit I do not have a way with words at all, but this is a weird way to announce this.

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

Why does Joanne think it's ok to use a male name (Robert) to sell books to make money, and think it's wrong for people to live their lives authentically, their actual lives, which might involve changing their name, not to make money, to just be who they are?

On Saturday I photographed a wonderful wedding in Oxford, Such a brilliant day. I got back to my car to drive home to Essex and the rain came. I was lazy and just made Spotify choose for me*. I got on the M40 and apocalyptic rain made the drive scary.

fuck yeah

This photo is amazing. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Having run out of mini roundabouts in my town they are going for the give way dashes now.

The news media is asking us daily to believe that certain people don't have the same right to live and work and see their children thrive as others, and also asking to worry about the feelings of a computer server, and these two things might just possibly be linked.

I cannot get The Proclaimers - Letter From America out of my head this morning.

I’ve popped down my favourite local for this.