This pot of whisked chickpeas, tahini, and lemon doesn't have a label. It wants to remain anonhummous.

Nice weather for cacti. #Heatwave

The temperature in my garden reached 50°c at 15.44, Monday 25th May, 2026.

It's so hot that coming out of Aldi felt like stepping onto the runway at Moi airport, from a store as crammed as the Likoni Ferry. #Heatwave

The Fabulous Three Doggies are rehearsing their song and dance routine that they hope will be chosen to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027. I think this would win. #Pets4Pets

If you keep waiting until you feel 'ready' to do something new that you think you'll enjoy, you may never do it. That can bring about feelings of regret, and even guilt. Sometimes you just have to push through the gorse to enjoy the view. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #Pets4Pets

Mrs Potts has formed a virtual band: The Fabulous Three Doggies. #BassetHounds #Dogs #Music www.instagram.com/reel/DYE7UUc...

Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough - living proof of the amazing things older people can achieve during their life on earth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Relaxing? Well it was, until I read the back of the box 😱

Mrs Potts has voted. She looks cross as there wasn't a Labrador candidate. #DogsAtPollingStations

#DogsAtPollingStations You're welcome. #Pets4Pets

#DogsAtPollingStations - making pawlitics fun since 2015

At the general election in 2024 Mrs Potts voted Labrador. #DogsAtPollingStations #Pets4Pets

Mrs Potts wants to know if she'll need to show her pawsport in order to vote? #DogsAtPollingStations

Mrs Potts would like to remind you that tomorrow is an important day for socially-minded dogs. Yes, it's #DogsAtPollingStations day again. #BassetHound #LocalElections

Meet Fig. Fig is a whippet bedlington cross who lives in a remote part of Dartmoor. He likes running around in circles, diving into rivers, and jumping up to greet people with his muddy paws. Mrs Potts thinks he's very cool and handsome. He's a very good boy. #Pets4Pets

Mrs Potts loves Dartmoor so much she's going around pretending to be The Hound of the Baskervilles - a soft and gentle version. Heading towards her 16th birthday, she amazes me every day in what she's still able to do. #Pets4Pets #BassetHound #Dogs #Dartmoor

Nigel's death in #EastEnders was peaceful, and seemingly pain free. However, around 170,000 people in England every year spend their final days in pain, distress or without vital support that should be available to everyone at the end of life. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/almost-...

Come on Potts, we're going home. #BassetHounds

Mijas is famous for its steep, flower-adorned streets, white facades, and cute and curious fluffy dogs sitting outside coffee shops. #Spain #Dogs

Even the bins are beautiful in Marbella's old town. #Spain

Benahavis sky at night, above my temporary home.

Someone must have fitted this tap whilst the shutter was open, and now the shutter can't be shut.

Meet Otis. This friendly Akita lives in a Spanish mountain village north of Marbella. He likes relaxing on his balcony, from which he gently howls to passers-by to attract their attention. He's a very good old boy.

At the end of a call complaining about a technology error on a bank's App, the third person that tried to resolve the error asked what outcome I required. Exasperate, I replied: 'I want the matter escalated, the bug fixed, an explanation, and constipation for my time and the stress caused." 😱

My Kanzan cherry blossom tree welcomed us home with a spectactular display of thick clusters of vibrant pink, double-petaled flowers. I'm proud of this tree that equals many I saw in Japan and South Korea this time last year. I bought it as a twig from Poundstretcher. The best £6 I've ever spent.

Hello #Dartmoor my old friend, I've come to walk on you again.

Jasmine should win an Oscar for that performance. Oh. #EastEnders

Today we saw a hoopoe around Haytor (9th April, 2026) According to RSPB, it does not breed in the UK, but as many as 100 Hoopoes can turn up in spring (mostly seen solo) as birds migrating north to Europe from Africa overshoot and land on the south coast of England. #Birds #Devon #Dartmoor

Images of UK's wildlife will feature on the next series of banknotes, following a consultation by the Bank of England. I think relevant causes should start planning fundraising and media campaigns around the huge opportunities this presents. #FirstFiver www.linkedin.com/posts/john-t...

Images of the UK’s wildlife are to feature on the next series of banknotes following a public consultation run by the Bank of England. I'll be donating the first wildlife-themed £5 note I get to a wildlife charity. Will you? www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2026/ma...

Come on Potts, we're going home #BassetHound

'Twas the night before Christmas, when Snowdrop came to my house. No other creatures were stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, I went to the door, and my foxling was there.

Mrs Potts' disappointment that many of the parcels being delivered don't contain Christmas presents for her is palpable. #BassetHound

Snowdrop the fox wants his dinner

I think the cash value of expired gift cards should be donated by providers to charities, by default. Charities already benefit from funds retrieved from dormant bank accounts, so why not put the cash value of expired gift cards in the pot? #Christmas #Fundraising www.linkedin.com/posts/john-t...

Mrs Potts made a John Lewis Christmas advert #BassetHound #Pets4Pets

Come on Potts, we're going home. #Pets4Pets #BassetHound

War Horses for Causes: the twenty four First World War cavalry horses that raised the equivalent of c£16m fundraising.co.uk/2014/05/19/w... #LestWeForget

Mrs Potts, my adorable basset hound, will be 15 on Monday, 3rd November. She will decide over the weekend which two charities she'll be donating £15 each to, in line with her #Pets4Pets campaign. #PetGiving #BirthdayGiving

Mrs Potts is already preparing for Halloween, and will be dressing as The Hound of the Bassetvilles. She is also looking forward to her 15th birthday in November, and thinking about which charities to donate her age in monetary terms to. She's such a good little pumpkin. #Pets4Pets #Fundraising

Hundreds of basset hounds are expected to invade Wells-next-the-Sea beach this month as part of an annual festival for the breed. Potts will be going and telling her chums all about #Pets4Pets - donate your hound's age in pounds on its birthday. #Fundraising www.fakenhamtimes.co.uk/news/2538738...

If you think the new banknotes should contain a reference to giving, fundraising, and charity, today is your last chance to let The Bank of England know. Submit your ideas now. #SpendMeSaveMeGiveMe www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

Whatever the outcome of The Bank of England's consultation on the design of future banknotes, their release will provide a fantastic opportunity for a re-run of #FirstFiver that raised £12.5m - the campaign that keeps on giving. fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/14/f... #SpendMeSaveMeGiveMe

The Bank of England is inviting the public’s thoughts on the design of the next generation of banknotes. Howard Lake and I have shared our thoughts on how charitable giving can be incorporated in the new designs. www.linkedin.com/posts/john-t...

Flask Force I formed a new community initiative this evening. Fed up with local coffee shops closing at 6pm, Flask Force encourges people to bring a flask of coffee or tea out with them, find a green space to sit in with friends, and chill. T-shirts and badges available soon. #FlaskForce

Wanted: Yoga teacher Location: Flexible Hours: Flexible People would bend over backwards for a job like this.

It's getting warmer by the day. Soon we'll be sleeping under wet towels, gasping for a molecule of cool air from a cobweb covered fan bought at Currys in 1999, with one leg poking out from the sheets towards an open window, wide awake as we wonder when the dog will pass out from excessive panting.

Louis wants me to play clasical music for him on Fridays, and buy him toys from Harrods once a month. Otherwise there will be consequences. #NotMyCat

Play Jaja Ding Dong #Eurovision