Ok I'll shut up about Lord of the Rings now but its been lovely to watch them again after far too long.

Movie time.

Christmasing has been done.

Eating Wine Gums and watching Bluey whilst waiting for the eldest to emerge.

I do like the Christmas Ghost Stories but just once I'd like Gatiss to resist sticking a schlocky jump scare ending on them. The main, creepy body of the stories is usually so good and this year is no exception.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1746

Ah Christmas morning! Just as the kids age out of getting you up too early, your bladder ages into it. Have a lovely day everyone.

"We lost the Entwives" has such divorced man energy I'd be worried about what Treebeard is reading on Facebook.

Movie time!

Some quiet Christmas Eve hobby time means all the decals are on the Buccaneer. Next it needs a sealant coat and all the panel lining done, which should make it really.pop.

Honestly finding it hard to get to excited about any Superhero movie news, even after a year that managed to chuck out several actually decent ones.

It strikes me that this is the first Christmas i've had properly "off" in about 4 or 5 years. Usually ive been on call or working "the gap" as cover, or as in the last couple, working for a business in various forms of crisis.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1745

Settling in for our choice of Christmas movie season.

Taking the family out for Compulsory Festive Joy.

Facebook memories has reminded me its been 9 years since this crisis in our marriage.

All of Naval History BSky Right Now.

Caught some of Jurassic Park 2 on the telly and what strikes the most is how Spielberg casts these interesting and off beat actors for his big creature features and the Jurassic World film went with...Chris Pratt.

Hooray its Christmas week!

Trying to attach the undercarriage and cursing the name of everyone who ever worked for the Blackburn Aircraft Company.

Eating mince pies and played Catan.

Morning hobbying. The plane needs another coat plus all the detail and clean up, and so do the pylons and fiddly bits (technical term i'm sure)

Going into 2026 like

With a new Avatar movie out so is the "isn't it wierd Avatar has no cultural footprint" takes but a lot of them seem to define cultural footprint as tie in merch and cosplayers which is....a little myopic, dare I say?

Oh thats why phone kept buzzing all night. Not bad for a bad pun I came up with on the loo. Usually you only get this sort of engagement by yelling mad shit like "chocolate digestives are classist".

"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact midpoint, everybody stops, and turns, and hugs, as if to say "Well done. Well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark." " (Doctor Who, A Christmas Carol) Happy Solstice Everyone.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Tolkien Heads

As a big anime fan its nice to see a lot of sites doing "anime of the year" lists but also as an anime fan i'm mildly annoyed its segregated away from regular "TV of the year" lists.

Got to the backstory heavy episodes of Attack on Titan.

Daily bunny no.3174 is given a new quest

I feel weirdly protective of the Joined in Pluribus because they may (or may not, who knows?) Horrible Alien Brain Parasites but theyre also complete goobers.

We've been watching The Witcher, which is y'know fine but then it drops an episode thats fun and inventive and fresh like its been dropped in from another timeline just to prove that it could be better but somehow chooses not to be.

* sees publishing news * Huh, its always the people you most expect, eh?

Anyway, happy "we'll pick this up in the New Year" Day to all who celebrate.

Entire recruitment industry now in hiberation like the bloody Blue Peter Tortoise.

You seem to be playing the wrong game, Mr Bond.

Casper has taken to sleeping in odd corners of the bedroom because he is a Mighty Panther of Stealth. We cannot find him, because he is Cunning and Wise. This is undercut somewhat because if you stand in the door and say "where's Casper" he will answer with a friendly cat chirp.

I have seen this when I was a kid and its super cool.

ahaha same as it ever was. they're never ever going to sort out mass transport in this fucking city.

Having just finished Nick Harkaways excellent Karlas Choice I have such an urge to read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy again.

So this morning I have "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins stuck in my head so thanks for that Fallout.

Every 50s nostalgia show seems to have a bit where they go "this beloved treat was in every home but has since fallen into disuse" and you look it up and find out it was made of radioactive waste and recycled asbestos.

Mildly amused that as Z and I finally, finally hit max level in Final Fantasy 14 we immediately went back and started to play up the Hildibrand stories from earlier expansions rather than look at any end game content.

Buccaneer update - all thr assemblies pulled out and primed, now to paint the damn thing pink.

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Honey, you had me at "New Steven Spielberg Movie" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...

Waiting room musk today is playing a wierd, muzak cover of "It feels like Christmas" from The Muppets Christmas Carol and its nice that that has someone made its way onto the "shitty Xmas covers" canon.

Seemingly at the "waiting for the void to scream back" part of the "screaming into the job hunting void" process.

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