from 2019

Can we get some appreciation for George Fouracres' why-haven't-we-noticed-this-before nailing of the Starmer/Zippy from rainbow likeness - ESPECIALLY the beautifully subtle way he twists his body like Zippy did #snluk

I think snl uk is very good

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Noel Gallagher gets a lot of stick for his lyrics but I really think 'Stand up beside the fireplace / Take that look from off your face' is a particularly moving line. A whole scene of a mum trying to capture her teenage sons for a moment in time, while she's still able to do so. All in one line

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Okay which of you fuckers was it invented the 'soft set' scotch egg? Come on own up you bastard

Deadline is Tuesday www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think quite high up my list of terrifying people is those with no whimsy or irony in their souls. Not through neurodivergence, just... it's not there

From 2019, after the Emily Maitlis interview (I share a page with something called ‘Kids Quiz' in the guardian, which is why we used the phrase ’sex trafficker’ here, and not ‘paedophile’. You can't really throw that word around on the Kids Quiz page)

From 2019

Portrait commissions now open for booking for 2026! Click through link in bio to enquire. This is a recent one commissioned as a gift for an allotment-lover. That’s Sting in the tree. The family's past houses are in the background. Oh and that's her adult kids in the ground she's growing! 🌱

Just remembered this

one from 2023

I'm opening up family portrait commissions again for 2026! Link in bio for enquiries. This was a recent one. The client was great, with loads of fun ideas that worked well. They're all sitting on favourite cakes and teddies and plants and stuff, and the location is a canyon in the US.

I like the govt's plan to ban smartphones and social media in schools but nobody's mentioned the glaring hole in it

Another comic I never bothered posting This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all

This took me fucking ages

I hate the word 'poop' more than I can express www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Somewhere out there is one huge, hideous mockery of calcified humanity with a thousand arms holding a thousand devices constantly roaming the internet for any old footage of anything ever so it can post the phrase "And not a phone in sight"

I think this one was from Sex Education S1 time? Or it may have been Normal People

I'm a 45yo English man. Am I ok to begin using the phrase, "this/that slaps". I often think internally but am afraid to say it out loud for fear of ridicule.

My favourite Mark Rothko is 'POV Claudia Winkleman visits Antarctica (1969)' www.artsy.net/artwork/mark...

Last week's comic. I'm new to The Traitors and predictably loved every minute of it

A recent family portrait commissioned by a family who are really into wildlife photography, often visiting Yellowstone. They sent me a bunch of their beautiful photographs from the reserve and I incorporated the animals in those photos into the piece.

Off and on it

Stressifily

From November 2020, when murder hornets were killing the bees in the US

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Peter Of The Lake, a comic from 2013, when I was keen to establish with the Guardian that in order for my weekly comic to work, it would have to be about whatever random shit popped into my head that week

I have met so many Dans, and female Dans, and they always blow my mind

The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights

Like if you want to know if someone is European it's just: 'what was the most horrifying bit in Hereditary?' 'Oh, when that kid tried to eat a turkey leg with a fork'. Yes you're European

Been watching so many American tv shows where people are eating with forks only, knife laid on table, so I finally googled it and I have learned about the 'cut and switch method' and honestly right now I have never been more sure that the British are just Europeans who think they're Americans