Just been thinking about NS of our beloved @paysan.bsky.social. He could be the main character in a hit TV detective programme. Jazz, fine wines and chess. I can imagine him as an unconventional detective in some cozy crime.

Or if you prefer Spotify. Jon Cleary's Funky New Orleans Thanksgiving https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Hk2YDP5unGyCCmZKguC61?si=pJV3dn2CTRaBmDHQOKkJyw&pi=MyuvMGxaQQKa6 https://tidal.com/playlist/b707af59-3881-4552-a442-65109cb2a5a0

Enjoying a lazy sofa Saturday after the excitement of playing last night’s gig at Telfords. Using Jon Cleary's Funky New Orleans Thanksgiving playlist to keep me funky. tidal.com/playlist/b70...

..and anyone who wants a dose of rhythm and blues afterwards should stroll up to Jax, Northgate St. where I will be performing with my blues harmonica duo.

Five years before I moved there. Great pic!

Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine

First Electric Blues Factory gig tonight at Telfords. 75mins of Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll good times. Local folk legend Chris Lee on bass. Driving drums from Mikey J Johnson Chester’s guitar god Sam Orr Yours truly on vocals and dirty blues harmonica. 21:30 @electricbluesfctry.bsky.social.

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Just in from watching this @storyhouselive.bsky.social Brilliant! www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on/nt-...

this high quality gag came from someone who is also here but as he hasn’t posted it himself I assume he doesn’t want to be tagged to share in the glory

Popped over to Frodsham to see the rather wonderful Three Together doing a morning concert.

Amazing to think that The Mayflower left Plymouth in England and landed in Plymouth in the US. What are the fucking chances?

Chester cyclists, anyone know a good place for a friend of a friend to sell a vintage (1970s) Mercier racing bicycle?

Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.

“I often racially abuse people, but never in a hurtful or insulting way”

I was once sceptical about the value of juries but I've learned through the trans work how shabbily our institutions treat those without privilege and fear their passing. Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.

Homeward bound. Beautiful sunset at Gobowen.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

There are three things Rachel Reeves should bear in mind tomorrow: obscene wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

DO VIRTUAL TOUR 1 ! www.madesnappy.co.uk/tour/1g2cbg2...

Beautiful stained glass at Gloucester Cathedral.

Talking to an older friend at brekko, discussing his replacement hip operation a number of years ago. My partner opens Facebook on her phone 20 mins later to find hip op ads. Why do people continue to trust Meta and allow software on their devices?

Gloucester.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Judd Trump to run the USA while Donald plays a first round match at the Crucible against Shaun Murphy.

Nick Knowles prancing round on stage in sequinned bra & pants belting out Single Ladies whilst Beyonce is busy sanding down floorboards in Andover refurbishing a derelict bungalow for a wheelchair using ex Para and his dog to move into.

I was in a nowhere town in Mississippi a number of years ago. My pal was wearing a pink rugby shirt. Men were blowing their massive SUV truck horns, shouting and gesticulating angrily from their cabs. We decided to retreat due to risk of a drive by. That’s how fragile US masculinity is.

i’ll be honest, “i have become opposed to the president so, instead of sticking around to vote against his bad ideas, i am resigning so someone else can come in and vote for his bad ideas” is a position i struggle to understand

I believe anyone could have done better than Johnson. Here's a quiz I made to prove it.

….and it’s me! Live blues at Jax Northgate St tonight @2030.

Trump vs The BBC. Love or loathe the BBC, recent events have put the UK's journalistic sovereignty in peril. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMn...

An absolute masterclass. Flawless! archive.org/details/rick...

Just finished this remarkable book. I’m not a gamer, but i grew up in the early days of gaming. I found the story to be engaging and moving. “It’s not a romance, but it is about love”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorro...

I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.

I think that this is a sign to head to @paysan.bsky.social, I’m sure that’s at the end of this stunning rainbow.

Cartoonist Nick Anderson on GOP hypocrisy #firstfelon #releasethefiles #listentothevictims

@shitchester.bsky.social Chester Ya Beauty Watch till the end for a cameo

Hahaha! Er. Someone has used AI to make analogue clocks with the live time. Analogue clocks are really hard. AI: spectacularly confident. Can be both subtly and spectacularly wrong. This is a lovely illustration of that. clocks.brianmoore.com

That’s Life On Earth. #TWOSHOWSINONE

LARRY GRAYSON'S GENERATION GAME OF THRONES #TWOSHOWSINONE

Doctor Who Do you Think You Are #TWOSHOWSINONE #SPICEGIRLSSONGS

TAKE HART TO HART #TWOSHOWSINONE

DOCTOR WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE #TWOSHOWSINONE

The Wellington Vaults (Marble Arch), Rochdale Road, Manchester, 1962, painting by Steven Scholes (b.1952). #NorthernArt

…and this one even more. Cry. tidal.com/browse/track...

Love this song so much. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, And Me). tidal.com/browse/track...