Thank you @samdeane.bsky.social for the PG Wodehouse audio book tip. I jad forgotten how funny they are.

My special Boxing Day post, which seems to have gone down well.

I love these kind of stories. Usually quiet resistance by women and a bright note in dark times

Tonight’s movie was Withnail and I which I have watched many times since it first came out in 1987. It makes me feel a little more sad every time, although the humour’s still there and I can quote most of the lines.

Continuing our Rob Reiner fest with Spinal Tap. A truly brilliant film.

Daughter has excelled herself with this year’s Buche de Noel. Happy Xmas all

Just rewatched When Harry Met Sally and realised that my husband and I first saw it when it came out in 1989, 2 years after we met. Weird to be closer in age and experience now to those old couples telling their stories than to the main protagonists

So the @nigella.bsky.social Christmas festivities begin!

This thread is fabulous

@support.bsky.team my discover feed has the attached message

Breakfast Trifle – yes, Breakfast Trifle – is #RecipeOfTheDay, a happy proposition indeed! www.nigella.com/recipes/brea...

Every day is a learning day they say and I did not know that Churchill had prepared a resistance in case of invasion before today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have already reached the stage of kids being back for xmas where I am muttering phrases such as ‘treat the house like a hotel’ and ‘we are not a taxi service’ and so on which I never thought I would do

Last night tonight

Marked the Solstice, as has become custom, by listening to this excellent version of the Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper on @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Listening to @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social on @newsagents.bsky.social and feeling blown away by her power and dedication to the cause of preventing violence against women and girls. And proud (for a change) for having voted for a Labour government that has made this happen. About time

Horrified by the news about Rob Reiner

Lit these tonight with sadness in my heart for those who lost their lives in Australia today.

This

Is it just me or does anyone else have a string sense that a wider war in Europe is imminent? Just as my 23yo applies to join the armed forces.

Anyone who has listened to @quietriotpod.bsky.social morning and wants to know more about the Washing Machine Project can find an excellent program about it on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech The EU is the enemy of both pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...

Cricket is in fact an exercise in slow torture

A short free post on you-know-who having been a bit you-know-what open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

I finished my slippers and felted them. Interesting 🧶

Today’s knitting project while listening to my favourite podcast @quietriotpod.bsky.social is the second of a pair of felted slippers – the extremely popular Sailor Slippers by Annie Sews. I’m hoping to have felted them by the end of tomorrow so that I might actually get to wear them this winter! 🧶

It seems that the right wing media has launched another concerted attack on a female MP. And the centrists/progressives are going along with it because they won’t/cannot see that a change of leadership now will likely lead to an early election and Farage in power. I despair

AI is a very bad thing 🧶

The Tories and Farage howl about ‘benefit cheats’ losing pennies - meanwhile their billionaire mates dodge mountains of tax. DWP estimates £9.5 bn lost to benefit fraud/error in 2024-25. HMRC estimates £46.8 bn slipped through the cracks in 2023-24. #ukpolitics

Bullies like Farage think their ‘bantz’ won’t be remembered by the people they are made to. But I remember every anti semitic comment ever made to me starting more than 50 yrs ago when I was 5 and was told that I had killed Jesus. Which confused me. That ‘bantz’ is hurtful and frightening

I’ve just spent a lovely hour getting some quite complicated knitting done while listening to my favourite podcast @quietriotpod.bsky.social - fascinating Sunday School episode this week. 🧶

I think the women in Strictly should get extra points for dancing in high heels. Seems unfair otherwise #strictly

It’s not a “US plan”, it’s Moscow’s plan, dictated to guilty men in the White House. Setting aside the injustices being pushed on Ukraine, this would be a disaster for European security & guarantee a war with 🇷🇺 in a few years, in which, presumably, 🇺🇸 and 🇷🇺 are on the same side. on.ft.com/3LYajoR

Just finished watching Mr Scorsese (Apple TV). What a great documentary. Now I have to watch all the movies (again)

Kudos to this young man who has got a change in the law so that landlords cannot advertise properties or sign contracts with university students before 1 March in the year the tenancy begins. Will remove a lot of stress from first year students. Impressed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A good thong done by this govt. Expect much screaming from the RW press www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s going on with Newsnight? Recycling previous programmes and Victoria Derbyshire seems very uncomfortable.

#celebritytraitors is the best telly I have seen in a while. Much better than ordinary one. Loved it

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Labour's Renters Rights Bill is coming into law. This is what it means ⬇️

Its rare that I agree with my MP, but he is right. Time to clamp down. Meta, X et al should be designated publishers and take responsibility for their platforms.

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

"Until now, public knowledge about the relationship between Reform U.K. and the A.D.F. was limited to a single quote Mr. Farage gave to the group, which they pushed out in a press statement. But the A.D.F. has quietly been courting the party since at least 2024." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Nice

“This isn’t some tinpot scandal of bent (politics or dodgy dealing). It’s a portal into a network… seeking to destabilise (Ukraine & US elections). …That UK’s oblivious to (its import & why it matters) fills me with a new wave of alarm.” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

I purchased this excellent table at an auction today for £1. It feels a bit mad that it should have been so cheap

@iandunt.bsky.social is absolutely right