Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

For those who are interested, my book on the P-51 Mustang is now for sale for a frankly silly £3.99 in the rather nice hardback edition. Get 'em while they last shop.keypublishing.com/products/mus...

I should at Tomb Raider again. But the original. All ten polygons.

See also: vintage hand tools, musical instruments, power tools, raspberries pi *, interesting/shiny pebbles, etc. *This is the correct way to pluralize them and I will die on this hill.

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

Just an innocent baby: a story in two parts. "Why are you telling me not to tug on the spider plant, father? I would never." ...aaaaand literally twenty seconds later.

Behold the Great A'tuin!

Charlie is a precious, sparkling genius of an Orange and must be protected.

I like my men like I like my coffee: partially digested by a palm civet.

Little-known approach to mapping: the Greenland Projection.

Fair play to the internet, they really nailed the "let's slamdunk on other people who broadly align with my worldview" attitude with this one.

With thanks to @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, we have a copy of HOME by India Knight to give away with one of our 12” prospector casseroles. Follow us, share this post and then find entry details here www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/competitions

Know your CSS: Cat Scritchy Spots

Her coos are *such* nice coos. Polite, too - they wished everyone a seasonal greeting a fortnight ago.

I am not (CLEARLY not, as anyone who's seen my pfp or rare selfies can attest) a big fashion person. But holy shitballs, these are incredible.

Not a bad morning walk, that.

This little guy looks like I feel this morning.

Don't know if you've seen it but I particularly enjoyed today's xkcd, @dreadships.bsky.social @crusaderproject.bsky.social @kejamieson.bsky.social

Just a reminder that you've never seen a Calvin & Hobbes animated movie or cartoon is because Bill Watterson didn't want to give Hobbes a voice so he could always live inside your head exactly the way you imagined him. And to this day you have no idea who he ever has voted for. But you can guess.

I'm going in... @pyramidhead76.bsky.social @yesmissmurphy.bsky.social

HELP FLOOR SHARK HAS GOT ME

Cat is in full-throttle mode this morning: much scampering and charging about, followed by the sound of claws flailing and failing to get purchase on the wooden floor. Periodically he brings me one of his toys to roll for him, and it's adorable (if very distracting)

it's not even english it's german, pathetic. If I was running a blood and soil english nationalist party I'd go for something authentically native for my logo:

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

Flashbacks to the time that the NHS.net email service was brought to its knees not by the one (1) email that somehow got sent to *every mailbox in the national system* but because 94,000 people helpful people sent a Reply All advising of the mistake.

kemi badenoch having a fight with a population density map and losing for being more dense is one way to start the week off

The Four Seasons is an incredible piece of music and is one of my very favourite things in the world. This clip is fab.

Dentist appointment this morning,and in what news outlets are calling "a display of significant personal strength and courage", I didn't immediately celebrate my perfect run of dental checkup by rushing to the bakery for a Danish pastry. The 40.5y / zero filling streak continues.

Day 1 of having grade one buzzcut: At breakfast, I move my chair away from the dehumidifier as there's a draught around my ears.

I saw this on a FB Pratchett group and had a go but by the time I had finished I had lost the group and can’t find it again so you can admire it instead. #discworld #terrypratchett

Thought I'd tidy up the hair, knock it back a bit. Did so, then went on to trim to beard. Saw some tufty hair over my ear, and forgot I was now on grade 1 - ran the clippers right across the side of my head. Had to even everything up and I now have the shortest trim I've ever had 😬

Brother and his family had to bail on lunch at ours due to flu - so today's casserole* is mostly going into the freezer. *Venison in stout.

Mrs C and I were in bed in our last house and we heard a skittering sound from the loft. No footsteps or clogs or anything, just this weird skitter noise. It kept happening, usually at like 11pm or something but sometimes in the morning.

Just spent £60 on a as-new vintage drawknife but a *brand new* draw knife would cost me about hundred and ten so really, I've just saved myself fifty quid. Everybody say well done Al for being so sensible.

Do you know how hard you have to fuck up to make Jeremy Corbyn look like the moderate voice of reason?

Bastards.

God I hate musical theatre types. Can't even have a bath without some fuzzy prick trying to show me his reading for Lion King.

Can't move. Am pillow.

Not a service they are providing within the EEA, Switzerland or UK. Unclear whether that's GDPR related or Medical Device Regulation related. Either way, to any US readers: fucking *run* before you feed your health data into it, IMO.

Dan is a good person who has fought the good fight for marginalised folk and has a ton of experience. Hire him please

Feetsies.

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

Which one of you Greg-fancying deviants wrote the fanfic this is based on?

Mystery: Xander cleans himself with a meaty, fishy, tongue and yet he smells delightfully of fresh, clean, laundry. How so? Answer: He is sleeping in fresh laundry.

In what I fully expect to be my proudest moment of 2026, I have invented: The Lasanwitch. (You put leftover bechamel sauce into a cheese toastie along with tomato purée and a lot of cheese. Also, in this case, sliced pickled beetroot.)

VOTE YES LIKE YOUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT, I BEG YOU

"I don't need another pillow. Stop. STO... *muffled*"

Robin Hood; famously, an English archer skilled with a longbow... Lugging around a recurve? *Sigh*

Meanwhile in Hungary: OWL TREE.

Mrs C found it hilarious. I pointed out that it's all very well and good when it's a @pactcoffee.bsky.social delivery, but the neighbors won't thank her if the postie starts chuckling at *their* little vices if what they get delivered is something more intimate and battery-operated.