The snoozing seals of Godrevy.

Really quite warm on the beach in west Penwith right now.

Redbook, January 1966

New graphics from Target Ovarian Cancer just dropped. I’m really keen to spread the word about symptoms, so please share either my post or the graphic. Other common symptoms include fatigue & changes in bowel habits, it can seem like IBS, and there’s no routine screening.

Lunch at Canteen, Mount Hawke.

A company could be taking your podcast, ripping the ads out, rehosting it somewhere else... and then charging people to listen. The company says this is "similar in spirit to ad-blocking in the web browser space". What do you think? podnews.net/update/copyr...

Pretty much had the beach to ourselves. Taking leave after Christmas instead of before seems so unusual I am partly convinced it’s illegal hence my guilt.

Sea view.

LCD display for an imaginary digital audio device.

As someone who bailed on Glass Onion half way through, I thought Knives Out 3 was jolly good. Though it did seem to be filmed in the UK. Am I wrong?

Child 1 saw a medical student on the train using ChatGPT to answer multiple choice questions. Hope I die before he qualifies.

Best episode of Backlisted ever. Just sayin’

So next Thursday is my birthday and David Bowie’s birthday and I can, at my favourite cinema, see Sentimental Value OR the David Bowie doc that was on C4 which I feel is destined as a couple of years ago I saw a film about Elvis on the same day as it’s his birthday too. What to do?

Just finished my first Gladys Mitchell. Not what I expected. Its juvenile protagonists make it feel like Enid Blyton for grownups (and I mean that in a good way). Really needs a map but so many places in it are real a 1935 map of Brentford suffices. Thanks @raynewman.bsky.social for recommendation.

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Very much enjoying this Christmas gift from child 1. Full of gems. ‘I could no more write a short story than I could write a long novel.’ His schoolboy addition to the Canterbury Tales (The Spyve) is wonderful. Edited by Robert Lacey, it says. THE Robert Lacey‽

There are many worse things about the film, but in the framing scene in Titanic someone stands right in front of a satellite telephone flat antenna to make a call.

I’m avoiding the back to work blues by being on leave next week. Soz.

Amazing. There is not much distance between this and a Viz parody.

It's 10½ years since the last episode of my short-lived beer podcast*. Is there a record for the longest gaps between episodes and if so what should I make one about now? #beer * it was a hobby when I was supply teaching and not planning or marking and had more time on my hands

Just finished my first Gladys Mitchell. Not what I expected. Its juvenile protagonists make it feel like Enid Blyton for grownups (and I mean that in a good way). Really needs a map but so many places in it are real a 1935 map of Brentford suffices. Thanks @raynewman.bsky.social for recommendation.

Waiting for my pasty to cook.

Me: I know, I’ll watch Rentaghost on BBC Four, that’ll cheer me up. BBC Four: HERE’S BIGGINS!

Thought I’d muted all the words but still they find their way to me. May have to mute the word ‘he’.

Just seen someone comparing Huey leaving 6music with the situation in Venezuela. Think I need to get off the internet.

I had a soft spot for Sailor but it’s a bit We Have Sparks At Home #totp

Go on #totp you know you want to

The next #totp aired on my ninth birthday. I almost certainly watched it. Will I remember it?

I have no words to describe how much I adore Buffalo Stance. #totp

Synth god Vince Clarke does not fuck around with keytars. Just puts a handle in a massive synth. #totp

Denny Laine is in my ears and in my eyes #totp

How did the film of Mull of Kintyre look so scratched AT THE TIME? Oh yeah it was needed 67 weeks in a row. #totp

Robert Wagner at the inquest.

At the time I had a real soft spot for Julie Covington. Not saying I was wrong but it seems really a bit odd in hindsight. #totp

Correct use of the crime BBC Four ident there. #totp

Someone I used to work with did the Praise You video dance as the first dance at his wedding. I wasn’t invited. #totp

Sun setting on the ponies and the family living life close to the edge.

Jack Vettriano would have had a field day on the beach today.

I went down a bit of an Inform rabbit hole a few years ago. Half-built an adventure set in Bush House where you have to get a radio programme on air. Developed the setting for an unrealised historical novel which made me think Inform might in some way aid a linear writing process.

Here’s an idea for a project, unless it’s already been done: the Annotated Allingham Campion Companion. The Campion books are crammed with slang and cultural references that could do with footnotes. Could be fun to unpack them.

Rainbow, interrupted.

Seeing Gladys behind Margery’s back.

Unexpected Hither Green in David Attenborough doc shock.

This is very tasty if you like a West Coast IPA. Lemon & grapefruit. But blimey Charlie, 7% abv. Thornbridge x Stone Brewing West Side Glory. Bought in ASDA. #beer

I watched the first new episode of Stranger Things and was in two minds about watching any more. Pretty sure I won't bother having seen responses on here. I know I should make up my own mind, but there's so much else to watch. 24 series of Midsomer Murders on ITVX, for example.

Snapped this rainbow in Hayle earlier and now looking at the photo I see it was a double. Why did I not see that at the time?

Happy New Year from the Merry Milkmaids... blogmywiki.github.io/listenwithot... #writing #shortStoires #audioBooks

A couple of years ago I saw a film about Elvis Presley in my favourite cinema on our birthday and this year I have the opportunity to see a film about David Bowie in my favourite cinema on our birthday.

To the Rainbow.