The UK media, particularly the BBC, is increasingly obsessed by the USA, treating it as more British than Wales, Scotland, or Nortern Ireland. Any other country defaults to the congenital xenophobia that doomed us all to the nightmare of Brexit & the rise of the far-right.

My WotD: Chard a beet with broad edible white leaf stalks & green blades #WOTD #WordOfTheDay #Wordle

Caterpillar in an Anemone

My WotD: Lazarette the rear part of a ship's hold, used for stores #WOTD #WordOfTheDay

My WotD: Potager a kitchen garden or vegetable plot designed to be both productive & ornamental #WOTD #WordOfTheDay

Twilight Wooded River in the Snow 1885 by Andres Andersen-Lundby 1841-1923 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_...

Fantastic Four #86 1969

Trump said: "Nobody understands a word this guy is saying..." Except anyone who understands Spanish. That is ~640 million people, or ~8% of the world population, or ~1 in 13 people one might meet.

The UK media, particularly the BBC, is increasingly obsessed by the USA, treating it as more British than Wales, Scotland, or Nortern Ireland. Any other country defaults to the congenital xenophobia that doomed us all to the nightmare of Brexit & the rise of the far-right.

Fantastic Four #85 1969

Wishing everyone well - but especially all migratory butterflies - on Western Monarch Day!

Fantastic Four #84 1968

Fantastic Four #83 1968

Fantastic Four #82 1968

Wising everyone well on Feed The Birds Day!

Wishing everyone well on Doggy Date Night!

Wishing everyone well on National & International Golden Retriever Day!

Why just Mandelson? It might be better if everyone left The House of Lords & it was replaced with a properly elected second chamber.

Fantastic Four #81 1968

Fantastic Four #80 1968

Wishing everyone well on National & International Brown Dog Day!

Wishing everyone well on Marmot Day!

Wishing everyone well on National & International Sled Dog Day!

Wishing everyone well on National & International Serpent Day!

Sometimes I imagine when watching BBC News that they will end with: Vote ReformUK! Vote Nigel Farage!

Fantastic Four #79 1968

"The world is divided by poverty, all else is a distraction." attributed to Anna-Marie le Charas

Wishing everyone well on Rattlesnake Roundup Day!

Wishing everyone well on National & International Lego Day!

Fantastic Four #78 1968

Fantastic Four #77 1968

Fantastic Four #76 page 6

Wishing everyone well on Clashing Clothes Day!

Fantastic Four #76 1968

Fantastic Four #76 1968

Presumably this depends on what you do in a cubicle or in front of a computer versus how many serial killers you spawn...

So called British "Patriots" make a fetish of their hatred of the EU & continental nations yet would happily sell off Britain to American Billionaires in a heartbeat.

Fantastic Four #75 1968

Wishing everyone well - but particularly all cats in need of having their questions answered - on National & International Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day!

We all seem to be living inside Trump's personality disorder.

Wishing everyone well on National & International Squirrel Appreciation Day!

Fantastic Four #74 1968

Wishing everyone well - but especially all underappreciated penguins - on International Penguin Awareness Day!

Wishing everyone well - but particularly all in desperate need of coffee - on National & International Coffee Break Day!

A Happy 92nd Birthday to Tom Baker, the greatest Doctor there ever was or ever will be.

Wishing everyone well - especially synonyms & antonyms of all kinds - on National & International Thesaurus Day!

Wishing everyone well on National & International Winnie the Pooh Day!

Wishing everyone well - particularly anyone in need or partaking of gourmet coffee - on National & International Gourmet Coffee Day!

Fantastic Four #73 1968

Wishing everyone well on National & International Hat Day!