The fact that Kermit isn't a tadpole in the Muppet Babies is why I have trust issues

I think this picture was taken on Sauchiehall Street

Which former PM will post their clogs first? Blair's got a dodgy ticker, I think. May - Type 1 diabetes. Brown had notoriously bad diet & looks shagged out. Johnson & Cameron look like their livers are hammered. Truss will probably be fine as long as she doesn't pick her nose with a sharp implement

She's thinking of a poppy tax isn't she

Busy day for Liz Truss, @showerabsolute.bsky.social!

A happy 88th birthday to Roger McGough on this remembrance sunday.

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

For no particular reason, I am thinking of writing a poem - a meditation on creeping uncertainty - about a middle aged man waiting for a bus in the pouring rain in the Scottish Highlands on a Sunday morning in November

That thing nowadays when you touch your iPhone on someone else's and it all lights up & makes buzzing sounds all feels very Harry Potter doesn't it?

Original Top Gearer, Quentin Willson has carked. Gotta love is kids' names

Turkey: That international bastion of Human Rights

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

This game is getting silly now. Live Aid was closer to the end of WW2 than to the present day

Friday

"... chap office door inside the close" #weareinscotland

It's the little victories

Scenes from Windsor Castle today

What's so offensive about 'Barefoot'

So do mobility scooters come with poppy stickers pre-installed?

Beware of tap dancing buskers

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a GIF.

You can bet your last guinea that Andy Windsor is telling anyone who will listen that he's a victim of woke

I'm old enough to remember when we were told on here that Starmer should be like the Canadians and stop grovelling to Trump

Totes Meer (Dead Sea) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-totes-meer-dead-sea-n05717

Business idea: A due diligence service for senior UK politicians

I mean, he's lucky... 500 years ago he would have been marched to Tower Hill in a cambric shirt... he would have tipped the executioner to make sure the axe was extra sharp for a clean blow... before placing his jowly head on the block

"... brown marmorated stinkbugs..." Give a dog a bad name...

Thomas Cromwell would be proud

Everything reminds me...

Blimey... Just a Minute has changed since I last listened to it www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV7e...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my LinkedIn, ye mighty — and kindly engage🙏 #Leadership #Networking #Legacy #OpenToOpportunities

I bought a can of WD-40 the other day. Haven't used it for used & really looking forward to its unique, almost delicious smell - a bit like sweet engine oil. Anyway, it smells different nowadays & not very nice. #whycanttheyleavethingsalone?

I suspect there was a gallic shrug involved at some point

We live in an episode of Veep

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

So, anyway - I'm looking for some free legal advice to help confirm who the most preferable member of U2 is. (Please don't make me explain this tortuous joke)

The enormous flag from the French ship Le Généreux, captured by Admiral Nelson in 1800, is one of the oldest surviving examples of the Tricolour... The flag's immense size is highlighted by the people standing on it in the top image, giving a sense of its scale.  #archaeohistories

So... I don't think I received my Deputy Leader ballot papers

Youngest daughter pointed out that she'd turned 25 on 25th Oct in 2025 & because the clocks had gone back there were 25 hours in the day. I just told her there are numerical patterns everywhere

Does anyone else feel a tiny bit sad reading this headline?

the duality of man

Ladybird book in the spotlight ‘The Night Sky’ (1965) Artist: Robert Ayton

"Lassie seems to be saying something about a life support machine"

thought this was Mark Lamarr for a moment

My three daughters communicating with me via voicenotes

Turnout over 50%. Young non-voters turning out to reject Reform. Great news for the left of centre & for decency, if not for Labour itself

Weather good, we are gradually working our way north in search of the Loch Ness Monster.

'Between the Leaves' by Brighton-based UK artist Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall