No matter your gender, you have every right to love and to be loved in return🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Expressing that love should never be hindered or questioned. Such a basic human experience has somehow become overly complicated. Let’s come together and restore a world where love can be shown openly and joyfully.

No better time than the present to get off Google and the rest of those shitty US tech companies.

New Alpha walk just dropped.

Agreed. And the public needs to believe their lives will improve inside of the bloc. There isn’t much hope of this until politicians stop blaming immigrants for every ill in society.

‘The Powerpuff Girls’ creator Craig McCracken has posted a touching tribute to Tom Kane along with an illustration of Professor Utonium and Mr. Harriman: “I grew up without a dad, so it was important to me that the girls had the best one I could give them and that was Tom.”

The media’s sudden interest and ability to investigate Farage’s dodgy dealing is interesting. I wonder what’s behind it.

That depressing feeling that the UK and perhaps much of the rest of Europe may become stuck in a Peronist downward spiral of failing to come to terms with a changing world. Because it is so much easier to promise past glories than future unknowns.

For the last year or so, we’ve been making an effort to focus on gut health, and we’re all feeling better for it. Today we had refried beans, rice, fresh salsa, roasted baby corn with cumin and paprika, roasted sweet potato, pickled onions, and a little crème fraiche. #lunch

Ozy Worldy (Italian Artist, born 1998) "Trouble", 2026. Acrylic on Canvas, 90 × 100 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Always love a nice piece of “bollock wiv me chips” when I’m at the seaside… (update the card Amelia you coward) Giz a chip gull card… dippyfishcards.etsy.com/listing/1254...

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

My painting COUNTRYSIDE

Baked, french fried, dauphinois, mashed, roasted, and hash browned

On this day, May 15, 2021: A very welcome visit from our occasional guest, Mr Stubs. He hasn't been seen for a few years now, but I like to imagine he's still out there, being his handsome and charming self.

Play it as loud as your speakers will allow

Someone went on a rampage today -chasing, biting, and terrorising his sisters. Now he’s sleeping like a precious little angel.

This is a damn shame.

I haven’t watched Eurovision for years, but my hope is that the country we shall not name cheats its ass off (again), wins, and blows the whole contest into the ether.

“Shut up!” screamed Toad.

Loving all of these cabinet ministers with their ministerial salaries cautioning against a leadership challenge. Babe, you’re gonna lose your salary and your seat if things carry on the way they are. But I guess long-term thinking isn’t really something most politicians do.

taller than anyone has ever been

Coastal Echoes No.3 6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel

I have analysed the MBTI of the potential Labour leadership challengers and concluded the best candidate is ISFJ Ed Miliband. Yes, I know it’s hokum, but having seen how parties consistently choose the worst people to lead them, I thought they could give this a try.

No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.

I am so glad we shut when we did. We could not have coped with the expense of setting this up and the expense of trying to recall parcels when this daft mandate is abused. My stomach hurts just thinking about it.

Roses are red Existence is fleeting Time is too precious To waste on Wes Streeting.

So many SMEs are suffering due to Brexit. Sadly, the bubbleheads in Westminster don’t care.

It is amazing that in the year of our lord 2026, so many journalists, pundits, and mouthpieces do not know the difference between ’liberal’ and ‘left’ and continue to use the terms interchangeably.

Let’s do this.

© Carlos Martin. 'Quiet Presence,' 2025. Ink on paper, 30 × 42 cm.

Looking at the potential replacements for Starmer, none of them seem particularly kind. Maybe kindness isn’t part of being a Serious Grownup, but it’s the trait I look for more than any other when it comes to allowing anyone into my life.

Miss Big Stuff.

My favourite part of PMs leaving office is when I don’t have to look at them anymore.

I’ve decided my life would be infinitely better if I wore one of these while gardening.

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The world is becoming harsher for transgender people right now. Darkness stretches before and behind them, and the pain is growing. Their wish remains simple — to love who they love and live true to themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 This is why we must join hands and change the world with compassion.

A garden of the flowers that appear in Swann's Way for #WorldCollageDay.

These post-mortems are an absolute hoot, and sum up the state of London-based politics so well: No accountability and the refusal to understand the basic concept of public service.

A couple of snaps from the garden. I’ve been working on the herb bed for about three years and it’s finally beginning to look established.

A cool cloud that formed up a few nights ago, 10 minutes later it was totally gone. #cloudscape

Maybe we could at least have a two-month trial of chaos with Ed Miliband, just to see if we like it?

Whisper it quietly, but these Westminster bubbleheads do not understand a thing about regular people trying to scratch out an existence on this miserable island.

If Starmer actually cared about the UK, he’d give us proportional representation before leaving office. It would certainly help us all remember him more fondly.

There’s always one.

good schmorning