Still not being quite sure what day it is in early January is the modern day equivalent of writing a cheque with last year's date on it, isn't it?

An excellent sub heading from @theguardian.com 👏🏻

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

When is Doris Day

Maduro is the New York mayor, right?

You can an ointment for that

Multiple lols spinning off into space

I never knew Caracas was the capital of Venezeula

Nobody does the hokie-cokie anymore, do they?

Well... some good news for once!

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This from @vizcomic.bsky.social will never get old.

Family all (still) home. Thinking of investing in a small but productive dairy cow for the back yard

Sold a phallus-shaped haggis to Germaine Greer

So apparently it's Saturday today, in case anyone else is planning to ring an unsuspecting colleague & talk about next week's meeting

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Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

To be fair - Nathan does sound pretty chastened

Trump's pick for Indonesian ambassador

Pretty certain that if Mephistopheles was around today, he'd work for the subscriptions dept of Adobe Acrobat

Got foxes in the back yard. How does arrange for the local fox hunt to drop by & sort them?

Annual Xmas Eve stroll along the river at Durham

Just reviewing photos of solstice trip to Long Meg & spotted this strange little figure

At breakfast in Mal Maison in Manchester. Sitting next to Irvine Welsh who must have been in town for Mani's funeral

Dec 1994: Viennetta ad from Wall's / Somerfield / Gateway (+Wall's Magnum 3 Pack Plus I EXTRA FREE; Wall's Viennetta Cappuccino 600ml; Wall's Viennetta White Chocolate 600ml; Wall's Viennetta Chocolate 600ml; and Wall's Original Viennetta 600ml) «Wall's have come tumbling down.»

I remember reading something by Alan Bennett about re-reading a book. Previously, he'd drawn a line next to a paragraph. The next time he read it, he spent ages rereading the section to see what was so important about it, before realising it was a hair, not a pencil mark

Thatcher would have had Jimmy Savile & Cliff Richard

You wouldn't have got this with Thatcher.

Winter Solstice at Long Meg

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️

Annual Winter Solstice pilgrimage to Long Meg & Her Daughters. Meg herself allegedly aligns with the setting solstice sun, but we have been going for over a decade & it's always been thick cloud. It's Bronze Age builders must have been very patient

Nice. But why?

A wounded walker (has a septic foot) shared his cauliflower with me.

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳 If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get Photo: Emmanuel Lattes

Ahhh man sad news about Lorraine Cheshire. Joan was one of the great comedy characters and her death is as good a reason to watch the whole thing again

I was visited by the ghost of Bob Marley last night

Famously, when the dot.com bubble burst, that was the end of the Internet, wasn't it?

Just discovered that Americans call cutlery "flatware"

Had the drain company out, yet again, to clear a blockage. Told him it blocks every few months, so he agreed to put the CCTV camera down to see what was causing it. As he showed me the footage, he said: "Look at that, clean as a whistle" & I found myself blushing slightly with a sense of pride

The 1970s summed up in an image. Happy Xmas Party everyone! Help yourself to a glass of cigarettes!

He looks like the composite image of every single member of the UK aristocracy

Completely gratuitous trolling from Spotify

Have you seen this? It's the literary map of London. I think it's Fabulous!!