Please help if you can. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Top notch #CarolsFromKings this year - two of John Rutter's best, plus all the Willcocks descants, The Shepherds' Farewell, The Lamb, and a gleefully over-the-top arrangement of Three Ships!

Oh God, just been reminded that I also need to do this in the new year. How do I tell the machine that the picture's fine, I just look like that in real life?

A fun day out and about in Grantham yesterday. Luckily, I really needed some vapes, a mobile phone case and about five haircuts. Sorted.

Newton’s statue in Grantham gazes down on the shopping centre that bears his name, complete with Morrisons, Costa and Greggs. Alas, no Apple Store! 🍎

Don't sing it Upside Down. #CursedCarols (What, you thought we'd let the cultural phenomenon go uncommented-upon?)

Is the Radio Times Christmas crossword especially tough this year? I’ve only managed to solve around half of it so far.

Dear supermarkets: "10 items or less" is absolutely fine, so don't let the grammar police bully you into changing it. "10 items" binds to make an amount of shopping, wherein countability is arguably lost, making "less" acceptable. You wouldn't say "10 kilograms or fewer", right? Merry Christmas.

If any kid of mine started singing about walking in the air and thought they were friends with a flying snowman, I'd be taking a very close look at the list of ingredients in their cough medication.

Happy Caturday

I appear to have stored some Christmas gift tags in the fridge. That would have to be a new low (both in terms of my cognitive abilities and in terms of gift tag temperature).

I heard the Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker on the radio while I was driving in to work this morning, and I'm always disarmed by its depth, sitting as it does amidst an array of mostly sickly-sweet confections. There is pain in it, but also consolation: like a comforting arm around the shoulder.

It's a good day to play some Sibelius. Because every day is a good day to play some Sibelius.

I think that FIFA Peace Prize decision needs to go to VAR.

Typing into a Google doc at the same time as an Anonymous Capybara. What a time to be alive.

Sorry, but I find the expression "Merry Christmas" offensive. "Happy Holidays" is also unacceptable. The same goes for "Good Morning" or "Hello" or any type of greeting, or even eye contact, before lunchtime. Or at any time.

If you look closely, it's actually very very very very very very very very dark blue. #BlackFriday

Just heard "Hark the Herald" with the full brass fanfare intro and Willcocks descant. #HarkHunters @quiresandplaces.com

[blind date] WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish. FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.

There should be book clubs for babies. "I enjoyed the crinkliness of this one but I have to say the little mirror at the end was a bit predictable."

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Feeling festive!

Me (buying my current car): Heated steering wheel? Pfft. What a ridiculous gimmick. Nobody needs that. Me (this morning): Can't this bastard wheel heat up any faster?

If you ask me, Cloudflare Outage went downhill after their second album.

Just being reminded of what an astonishing and unique individual Fred Dibnah was. Such admirable courage, grit and stoicism. This clip is mesmerising. And I could listen to his voice for hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPA...

I hear that magnesium supplements can simultaneously aid sleep and relieve constipation. Hopefully that's not *too* simultaneous. 😳

It's a bit 'taters out.

Happy that I managed to get out and about this morning before the rain moved in.

I thought I was solving a simple maths problem, but I seem to have stumbled on the answer to life, the universe and everything.

I might be getting into Sigur Rós. More news as it happens.

I just filled up a kettle to slightly above the “max” line, so don’t be telling me that I’m risk averse.

The new Alan Partridge thing is excellent. He hasn't been this funny since he was in the Linton Travel Tavern.

I feel it in my fingers I feel it in my t

Are you going to be long in there, Matthew?

Looking at next week's work calendar and wishing I could send a stunt double in.

I know what you're thinking and no, that's not how they rescued him. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Me: "Dear brain, how about some more interesting and varied dreams?" My brain: "Nah, let's do the one where you're panic-shopping for the whole family on Christmas Eve again."

So far I've attended at least one #LiveMusic event in every month of 2025. Tonight I'll be ticking the box for September. Looking forward to some Mozart and Schubert with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and the Britten Sinfonia in Cambridge.

Oh well, any old excuse to re-share this gem from Big Train: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1YN...

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the wisdom I cannot change, The courage to do something or other, And the ability to remember prayers better.

An inter-dimensional portal opened up on my desk again. #SwirlyThingAlert

Give every award to whomever took that photograph!

Very appropriate as we mark the anniversary of the death of Jean Sibelius. #IfYouKnowYouKnow

Sun dog yesterday evening.

Pairing a MacBook with a Bluetooth speaker is almost a friction-free experience. The first time. But don't expect it to ever work again.

I'm giving Chernobyl (HBO) a second watch, and oh my word the acting is phenomenal.

Bookmarks! Yay!

Best I could do, once the moon cleared the cloud bank. There might still be some residual earth shadow on there, but one could hardly tell, least of all from this pic. #LunarEclipse #Cambridgeshire