Brenda makes an inadvertent premonition about Josh not surviving the runs (diahorrea) in #TheArchers 😉

Did Azra say they’d be “Coxing and boxing about”? What does that mean? #TheArchers

It’s that time of the year again: Have you decided whether to check you have enough wrapping paper and cards already, or will you just buy some more anyway?

@thecidershedpod.bsky.social Just listening to last week’s podcast - thank you. Dead John and Tony really did have a right ding dong! I wasn’t a listener back then. It was nice to hear the clip. #TheArchers

We paid £99 for Covid vaccinations at the pharmacy this year. OH sent a manager of staff home sick yesterday, guess what - Covid. On the basis of 2-14 days incubation, and then OH giving it to me, I think I’ve avoided having a Covid Christmas. 🎄

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Can someone explain why George Grundy isn’t running his drone business? I think I have missed something. #TheArchers

Alan Carr pulling faces after suggesting he (dis)likes women as much as he (dis)likes olives 🫒 in the advert for his sitcom is as bad as heterosexual people pulling faces about homosexuality. Stop shaming genital preferences, it’s not like any of us have a choice.

Love this especially as the bar looks like tiled 30's pub and this is one of those bleak street photos of drunks folk say looks like a Caravaggio

More macabre paintings by Richard Tennant Cooper here.

Minnie watching for other cats in the garden.

I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase

So Phoebe is definitely having the baby in the castle - Brian’s bought a crib they’ve got to lug up there this week - very handy. #TheArchers

Haha Amber is as impressed with George’s cleaning as George would have been if it had been the other way around. #TheArchers

So is Trump going to stop the BBC and defund #TheArchers with his £1b lawsuit?

Poor Susan, George is going to throw her volunteering job for Bridge Farm in an instant. #TheArchers

Minnie found a warm place out of the wind in the greenhouse. My seedlings may not be benefitting from her choice of seat.

My visit to Dracula (blood donation) today has been cancelled. I guess he’s a bit busy on #Halloween

When my other half has had Covid (twice) he’s been really poorly. Finally persuaded him to book a private Covid vaccine from Boots, £99. I’m getting one too. Neither of us qualify for NHS vaccine. We’re lucky we can find the funds.

No photos of Minnie recently, she was bitten on her right back leg and has been having VET treatment. She’s starting to feel a little better, so here’s a pic of her relaxing (I’ve cropped the picture to exclude the gruesome wound).

Does anyone else find it fascinating that Americans are protesting “No Kings” against their tyrannical President, when it’s our King and constitution which stops our Prime Minister from making themselves a tyrannical King?

Introduce yourself using only 1 food you refuse to eat, 1 movie you'll never watch again and 1 song you can't stand. Cucumber, I can taste the bitterness of cucurbitin I’ll never watch Dead Poets Society again. Loved it as a teenager, don’t want to ruin it. Song I can’t stand is Imagine by Lennon

@louisenorgate.bsky.social You have beautiful curly hair. I see you.

More or Less on BBC Radio 4 Today stating that 45% of all tax revenue comes from the richest 20% of people in UK society. This was surprising to me. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Minnie the climber, up on the gazebo.

Oh dear, George has discovered the issue with snitching on Markie. #TheArchers

I wasn’t paying attention to Mastermind… Clive M:Which school in Walsall did Chopin attend… Me, half listening: Wow I didn’t know Chopin was from The Midlands! My brain: Warsaw not Walsall, idiot!

“Brian’s the gammon” Kerrie you naughty scriptwriter! Hahaha #TheArchers

I think #Minnie cat is happy to see us home.

Handsome gentleman in the field we had to walk through twice today. Luckily he was very chilled about us passing through his kingdom. #Dorset

Fossil ammonite on the Jurassic coast #Dorset

There were 400 steps at one point on the coastal path this morning. Phew! #Dorset

I wonder where in Scotland the Archer-Bellamy-Aldridge holiday baronial pile is? Have I guessed correctly? #TheArchers

Sail boat behind a rock as seen from Lulworth cove. #Dorset

Hunters lunch at The Fox Inn at Corfe Castle village. OH was very happy with this spread, including deep fried gherkins, which I am told were delicious. The food here in #Dorset has been consistently excellent in quality.

Corfe Castle, finally after two and a half hours of walking! Weather still lovely - cool in the shade warm in the sun. #Dorset

It was impossible to miss the #fossils on Chapmans pool beach in #Dorset this morning.

Lunch on a beach accessible only via footpath or boat, and then a pint outside the Square and Compass in Worth Matravers this afternoon. Beautiful #Dorset.

The Isle of Wight, cliffs lit by a ray of sunshine. Seen from the #Dorset coastal path today.

The #Dorset coast earlier this evening.

How do you spell forty again BBC1 #Countryfile?

Birmingham airport #BHX is advertising on Channel Four on demand.The music they’ve chosen for the advert has these lyrics: “I’ll … hit the ground runnin’.” 😬🛬

Make a band singular. He might be giant.

Talked to colleagues about moving to the area. Welsh person told me not to move to Wales “ Not me, of course, but other Welsh people don’t like it when English people move in”. I wonder if Welsh people are putting up 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 flags and drawing red dragons on mini roundabouts to keep the English out.

Hurray #TheArchers listeners, the 1830 comedy tonight is the return of #TheNewsQuiz

Oh no Herbert Rosie’s toy and Cleo. #TheArchers

Is Lily going to fall on her sword? I don’t think she’ll let Linda take the blame. #TheArchers

I can’t guess people’s ages within +/- fifteen years for most people unless they’re under 16 or “retired”, or with their own child who is under 16. At work I just assume everyone is both younger than me and more experienced. Nobody on BlueSky looks a day over 21 of course.

Had today off to power wash the patio after some building work on our house. Was a bit reluctant to start until it began raining. Hey ho, if I’m going to get wet it might as well rain. However the thunder ⛈️and lightning ⚡️ was a little OTT.

When you see those “robot dogs” does anyone else see a spider? I think both spiders and those robots are horrific!