The So Broken Experience

The Pest Is History

At 7.20, the family will assemble in the lounge to watch The Matrix. No one has previously seen it.

Introduced my daughter to the Blanton-Webster band, and she was into it. #parenting

Wow. I don't even feel certain a to do list will be the best to do list I'll do that day.

Yeah, if you do the moustache bit, it's harder to pretend it was a "heart out" gesture or something.

What's the collective noun for Miis?

TLDR - She's come up with brand new chord, and a twist on sonata rondo.

In this office, the plastic pouches are jealously guarded by the in-house laminatrix.

In this office, the plastic pouches are jealously guarded by the in-house laminatrix.

Not an email I expected to have to send to be honest #itfc

For an important e mail, I'm going to want to write it with pen and paper, then type it up. #genx

and take your hat off

Jenrick also can't wait to celebrate Rentaghost, just 50 days after Easter.

Jenrick also can't wait to celebrate Rentaghost, just 50 days after Easter.

My food hot take is that the best bit is often starters, and 2 or 3 starters can be the way to go.

My food hot take is that the best bit is often starters, and 2 or 3 starters can be the way to go.

Someone's stopping up for MOTD tonight! #nffc

You just love to see it, whatever that is in your particular case.

Definitely not jinxing this by looking at the table. #nffc

easily the funniest metaverse moment

You just love to see it, whatever that is in your particular case.

Seen a lot of bowel cancer stool test posts recently, which is a pretty good indicator of who is on Bluesky.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

#np been a while

It's Reach websites. Saved you a click.

New Substack post:

new purcell just dropped

Readers with long memories will remember the investigation Jeff and I wrote on Shorworld, the lucrative parallel world of classical music, back in 2024 Well, here’s Shorworld 2! van-magazine.com/mag/alexey-s...

Just seen that Nick Clegg painting, and I'll be up all night wondering who it actually looks like.

that's not mud

mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaF...

Su Pollard smashing a bottle of Lambrini on a pedalo.

Daughter's Mother's Day card. The black cat likes to play drums on the catflap.

Daughter's Mother's Day card. The black cat likes to play drums on the catflap.

My family don't like my fermented habit, so I wait til they're away.

kill or cure

Putting a lot of faith in the healing power of kimchi.

Nearly getting wiped out by a driver speeding through a red light has convinced me to have a nice evening.

Doctors reveal: if you drink olive oil every day after 50, you'll have greasy chops, and might have to nip to Co Op when you next have spag bol.

"If there is better writing on music going on here [on Substack], please let me know" - says the estimable @disgwylfa.bsky.social. Why not see for yourself, starting here: purlis.substack.com/p/schubert-d...

Is it bad for hayfever at the moment? My nose is closing up, and I want to know if I'm ill or not.

And KFC brought in by RFK.