Paul Hartnoll of Orbital with Bez, Battersea Magic Garden pub, now. 🙂

R.I.P. Dave Ball. Great loss to electronic music. His autobiography Electronic Boy is also well worth a read - erudite, forthright and witty.

First time tonight in about 20 years that I've seen John Hegley live and delighted to report he's still as great as ever.

Seeing @kuntandthegang.bsky.social tonight in Cambridge. This seemed appropriate... youtu.be/_nlJgA_xWU8?...

New HAAi album Humanise is excellent. Balances kooky electronica and banging techno at just the right level, with more distinct and emotional vocals than her last LP. Capsule review: blissfully wistful/wistfully blissful. And it's on @muterecords.bsky.social, indisputably the best label there is. 🙂

"I'd like you all to meet a little friend of mine. Look Conference, it's Amit the Asylum Seeker. Say hello, Amit!" "Salag allygug" "And why have YOU come to Great Britain, Amit?" "Genefits!" "You see, Conference? THIS is what we are up against.

The 2003 E4 prank show Little Friends was well funny but got pulled because of the sweary kids and never released on DVD. Anyone know who produced it so I can beg them to shove it up online somewhere anonymously? youtu.be/2dcy0FY2YMw?...

**Censor Mayonnaise Jingles – Ep. 60** In which we Censor Mayonnaise Jingles, tut at grave-robbers, locate hats, hunt the snark in a poem, and try to translate backwards. === If you’d like to know where all that comes from, please click play: […] […] [Original post on offgrid.tlmb.net]

Been restoring some of my mum's old #cartoons, damaged photocopies of which surfaced after her death in 2020 (thread)...

It's happening! #rapture

Been restoring some of my mum's old #cartoons, damaged photocopies of which surfaced after her death in 2020 (thread)...

Obligatory #theylive repost…

A #cartooning thread... Some of you will already know my late mum was a commercial artist and (mostly amateur) cartoonist. If not you can read this piece on Bleeding Cool which was originally a thread I wrote on the other place shortly after her death... bleedingcool.com/comics/rose-...

Top work, Led By Donkeys. The Trump-Epstein film they projected onto Windsor Castle last night, in full... www.instagram.com/reel/DOsVh55...

They've definitely banged up the wrong people. (I see LBD have had to delete their post, too. 🤬) www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...

🚨 UK PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN 🚨 Roll up roll up - assure yourself a copy of Unch now! Visit: unchcrosswords.com#shop

Spinning one my late old man's LPs in honour of him and the late Robert Redford.

I just keep feeling like this must be the timeline that one of us is gonna have to go back in time and sacrifice themselves to prevent from coming to pass.

1) “Bring me a shrubbery, one that looks nice... and not too expensive.” 2) “Cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with… a herring.”

For any fellow lovers of rhythmic instrumental analogue synth music, I can thoroughly recommend the new album from Signal Électrique, "Only for You", on Bandcamp here... signalelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/only-f...

Apparently, when Reverend Spooner got really drunk he used to bite the shed.

If you listen closely, you might hear me say “biplane” in the new #offgridpod ep, as the General gives good advice. https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/08/31/athenas-parachute-concession-ep-58/

Post! New #countycricketmatters & #1across, the latter with a #cryptic #crossword by me, the former with a #cricket one by PrincelyEntry.

Okay, I went to the shops and came back with something vaguely resembling a crossword. www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2686

Did you hear about the oenophile who was locked in a room for weeks without access to quality French wine?... He suffered from Sancerre-y deprivation. (I'll get me coat...)

Think I might have linked the #CrypticSunday stream to the wrong #OffGridPod episode. Here's the new one: offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/08/17/i...

Only good thing about the latest Mission Impossible is all the American tourists who will now be baffled why they can't find Trafalgar Square tube station.

French pylons be like...

Remembering the good old days when you could deface a paper fiver with a pencil and a judicious crease to make the Queen look like Kevin Godley...

Gecko. Only about 2cm long.

Street art, Grasse. #twinpeaks

Nice mural, Cannes. Only the guy in the bottom right of the frame is real.

Cartoon from the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo. "Make love not war".

David Lynch's handprint, Cannes.

Inspired by my trip to London earlier this month, my July #Scrabblegram pays tribute to the incredible Tube system 🚇🏙️🛤️ (I passed through about 75 stations that week, including to/from Heathrow and all the way out to Chesham in Zone 9) #Scrabble #London #LondonUnderground #TheTube

Was driving up the A1 the other day and amused myself composing this rude limerick based on the names on the signposts: A Ranby young lad from Long Bennington, Met a Sawtry but shy lass from Stibbingon; His Hardwick (full hoist) Could not get her moist, So she went back home with a Dry Doddington.

Saw Frankie Boyle in Cambridge this afternoon. Ticket price: £27.50. Just got back to car park. Ticket price: £30.90. Lesson: comedians should give up comedy and go into car park retail.

"Hear the... #warmleatherette

Nazis?

Almost didn't get to Sheffield in time for this after having to go to hospital yesterday (AOK), but luckily just made it. Fantastic retrospective of Minchin's 20-year career. Made us laugh and cry. (Tickets were a surprise anniversary present from my lovely missus last month.)

Shepherd's warning...

All this talk of the late David Amess on the news is making me crave a slice of bisturbile cranabolic amphetamoid.

Wasps are right fucking pissheads, aren't they?

Look at this cunt. He'll do it again. Throw away the key.

A second #offgridpod in-the-field episode up today ... offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/07/13/i...

Many congratulations to Sinha on his Wimbledon singles victory yesterday.

Is it just me? #Rublev #Beavis #Wimbledon

Massive dragonfly flying around the garden (phone snap). He looks almost as big as a sparrow!

This, from Private Eye, comparing what Brexit cheerleader Daniel Hannan wrote about "Britain in 2025" back in 2016, and, er, last week, really needs no comment. However, one starting with C and ending with T certainly comes to mind.