Alert... klaxon noises .. to anyone who cares. I have finally decided to actually get a tattoo. I just need to check whether it's been associated with far right symbolism.

I love trees at this time of year. View South-West up the Tay

@marzid.bsky.social im having horrible flashbacks to 1978, and 'we're on the march with Ally's Army' as an ear worm...

Cool. Victoria learning from Scotland. theconversation.com/how-victoria...

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Frankenstein Guillermo Del Toro

Little things still bring joy. I drove considerately today, opening gaps for people, making sure I cleared lanes for them to overtake. I got waves of thanks from 4 people, and each of them gave me genuine happiness. #LittleThings

So.. apparently this is a very good dog...

Back from Warfare 25, to find this waiting for me... fun. I doubt I'll ever get to play it, but...

Right, that's made my day. In conversation, a young lady estimated my ages about 15 years lower. Whoo hoo... of course she was about 12 so I think at that age it goes : 25 = old, 50 = ancient 60+ = why aren't you dead yet?

The joys of downtown Caton. Which has the distinct advantage of not being Morecambe

Trolling the passers by at Norton Canes services with my t-shirt

Another Sunday, another Pissaladiere.

Probably should come with label: 'must recognise this to be old enough to date me... ' anyway, off to get baking ingredients at Lidl.. it's an exciting life I lead

Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen presenting his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty with a Lego pyramid set. Got to love Mr Abdelatty’s reaction. (📸 Lars Løkke Rasmussen)

Just wondering if anyone (everyone?) Else in the UK has received their copy of Free League Alien Evolved? They say all UK copies have been sent? Nada Zip...

I loved this show. It helped that Katy had some of the energy of one of my first girlfriends.

Anniversary of this big old Galoot my birthday 2017 RIP Gus, titanium knees and all. All the way from Oz to Scotland with me.

I am officially in the 21st century now. Cancelled the landline + international free talk, as the folk in SA and Oz are dead or have got their grandkids to show them how to work WhatsApp.

'Ballad of a Small Gambler' it's amazing how much Colin Farrell looks like Dirke Bogarde in some of these scenes.

I mean, that's absolutely insane! 🤯 Playing at Murrayfield too. 👍

Is it too early?

This is what 60+ looks like...

I can confirm astrology is rubbish.. I am a Scorpio with a 6 as the first digit of my age, and I have NOT died of venereal disease, or been stabbed by a jealous lover or their partner* So much for all the predictions... *Yet

Ok... cake, kedgeree, fromage et charcuterie platter, and Pilsner. Food, glorious food...

When your friend who bakes like a goddess drops a little something on your doorstep for your birthday..

Dear NHS, Further to your recent letter, I greatly admire and support introducing bowel cancer screening for men over 50. Sadly, the sample tube you provided was inadequate. If you could kindly wash and return the enclosed tupperware when you've finished with the sample, I would be most grateful.

New puppy in family. Apparently this is not ok

About to go to my desk after two weeks sick... and find out if my team was disbanded last week. What really burns is I moved heaven and earth to get one of my guys not to leave less than two weeks ago, he declined a job offer, and now... Life coming pretty hard right now.

I do feel sorry for the decent folk left at the BBC, but honestly, they've outsourced all their production anyway. They are a brilliant exemplar of the adage that the fish rots from the head down....

I often find Bella Caledonia a bit 'strident student socialist splitters', too much ideological purity. But I can't fault this... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/29/i...

My block thumb is getting a workout today. Folk claiming PA are using weapons, Labourites asking us to deny the evidence of our own eyes in relation to their actual Reform-Lite rhetoric.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

On a hobby thread, seeing lots of folk moaning that the 70s was so grey and bleak.. and ffs... have you not seen the orange fibreglass curtains, the wallpaper, the bright orange, purple and lime-green car colours? Compared to today, the 70s was a riot of colour.

Finally got round to framing this print from my old mate Jonathan Hood, it's only taken 15 years, been sitting in the postal cylinder from UK to Oz, and now it is back home again. Possibly his most travelled print?

Jumped in someone else's car yesterday, BBC radio on. Presenter was talking about the autism/paracetamol debate. It made me furious. Would they talk about the Flat Earth debate or shape shifting alien debate? The BBC. Normalising utter insanity (RW propaganda) for years.

'Madness, takes its toll'. I had the thought that the Monogram B17G interior might be squished into the Revell B17F fuselage. How much will actually be visible is debatable... #HeaviesGB #HistScaleModels

Every time I look at this bad boy in a different light/angle, I spot another dimple/flaw that needs fixed... #ShortStirling #HeaviesGB #HistScaleModels

Costa del Tay looking West from East of Broughty Castle. @aphilosopher.bsky.social

Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.

Sunday is baking day... ham, leek & mushroom. Not the most aesthetically pleasing baking I've ever done... but we will see how they taste. Nice and warming on a day where it feels like the breeze might be coking off snow in the Cairngorms.

Labour's GB Energy hires just 13 staff in Aberdeen. So much for being at the heart of the UK's energy revolution. www.thenational.scot/news/2548045...

I'm sure everyone else has already seen this, but I can make absolutely sure I don't get that visa....

Why is it so hard for US Movies/TV to do a half-decent Scottish accent? The 'Scottish' scenes in Mayfair Witches make me feel like burning the voice coach at the stake. I mean, what is that? Strangled cod-Irish with an Aye or two? Unbelievably, comically, bad.

The river moods. Tay.

What a beauty.... in classic black plastic. 1/32 Revell Beaufighter. Looking forward to this one. #HistScaleModels Decals have had it.. but hey ho...

I do love Naval & Military Press, but seriously. This amount of packaging (hand for scale) in a giant box, for this no of books? The first pic is AFTER the books were taken out. 🫤

Progress on the #ShortStirling build for #HeaviesGB is 'glacial'. Lots of other stuff going on, not least prepping a #SotWW campaign on Roll20 (first time), oh, and work. But continuing on the wings. Cut outs for lights. #HistScaleModels

I've tried to tell people this, but they are so invested in the media narrative...