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Important to live your life so that when you die the global parties & fireworks aren’t visible to the bewildered astronauts on a moon mission

Excellent haul of bank holiday reading from the hospice charity bookshop. They say people now don’t want hardbacks & they can’t shift them at any price. Weird. All the more for me

There’s a council byelection coming up in Margate - because one Reform guy has gone to prison, nice - & town seems to be exactly split between Reform & Greens. Haven’t seen Labour or Tories mentioned anywhere. Don’t know if they’re even running

Some of the shameful things Trump has been doing have not had enough attention

Finally watched Lars & the Real Girl after years of people saying it’s very moving, it’s not what it sounds like. And it is very moving, it’s not what it sounds like at all

If we’re not going to have any helium to have MRIs can someone please invent an alternative way to be scanned which doesn’t involve getting into a tiny panic-inducing shrieking clanking metal coffin, thanks

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Amazing. Poor lonely Faceless Fish & Dumbo Octopus

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I love the fact that this means I can turn left or right at the end of my road & walk to anywhere on the coast in Britain on one path (I mean I can actually only walk for about 15 mins but in theory)

Margate in the mist

That rhythm is so distinctive - I think it’s a certain kind of US journalese mixed with mildly dated ad copy. Makes sense considering what it’s hoovered up. Of course soon humans will write like that because they read so much of it

Distracting myself from *waves in the general direction of everything* by a stroll to Chelsea Creek and Foreshore to check on the wondrous Saxon fish trap. V-shaped, carbon dated to the reign of King Offa, 757- 796 CE. It’s comforting amid the madness to think how well this structure has survived.

Look forward to Trump & Vance sitting in Zelensky’s office being told to say thank you

This includes things like poems in anthologies, radio sketches etc - things you wouldn’t expect to make anything from add up if someone keeps an eye on them year after year

Enjoyed Life of Chuck. Especially finally realising the grandmother is played by the girl from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Hope this is enough of a kick in the balls for Labour to notice that constantly chasing Reform voters & just assuming centre & left people have to vote for them is a bad idea

This bird has had just about enough of your nonsense thank you

Watching Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession. Absolutely deranged

Why can’t cinemas show cartoons & then an exciting melodrama like the one in Brief Encounter? I would go all the time

This man needs to spend some time in an iron lung. Ideally the rest of his life

Argh back to aching all over in every single cell for no obvious reason at all, fuck long Covid

Fascinating how you barely need to break stride until 1600, & it’s pretty much comprehensible until 1200 when suddenly I’m lost

What do we do with our flags? Half mast? Are medals worn? Really rusty on my Royal Arrest Protocol

It’s just such a refreshing feeling to see an arrogant entitled prick experiencing consequences

Busy day at the Tower of London. Emergency clear out. Cells probably full of cardboard boxes, unused exercise bikes etc

They’ve got to have arrested him on his birthday deliberately surely. Perhaps as a treat for the rest of us after all the miserable rain recently

Pancake Day bringing out the American British food comments agaiiiiiiiiin 💀💀

‘I wanted to get my children vaccinated in a more bespoke, special, private way so I have left them unprotected from measles’ Jesus christ, well done ‘vegan mums’ you absolute morons

Come on Liz, work your magic

Exile for me, asylum seeking for thee

What if it never stops raining

It seems as if this might have turned out to be made up - and AI generated? Dismal view of the future, that humans are kept busy happily reading & discussing AI stories in a corner while it gets on with taking over the world

Think I forgot to post my weevil bowl - pretty happy with how this turned out

Happy Valentine’s Day! - why not celebrate by going to look at my painting in the Alt Valentines show at Lido Stores gallery, Margate

All the ice skaters are falling over, what is happening

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Painting, oil on canvas

Watching backflip man doing his skating holy shit (someone sew him another costume though)

The speed skating relay is the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen

Only watched one episode of Small Prophets & it already seems like it might be amazing. The most depressing possible setup at first - I had to get over my massive reluctance to watch Michael Palin looking bewildered in a care home

Anyone complaining about British food getting blocked for the crime of being unbearably boring

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Why was the music & sound so terrible at the ice dancing? Like standing outside a Reading nightclub on a wet weekday night

Am I imagining it or has there just been another massive jump in the amount a completely ordinary sized supermarket shop costs?

That man doing a back flip on ice is truly crazy

Find it too stressful to watch the curling because just can’t believe these husband & wife teams are going to be able to have public discussions about the best way to do things without it ending in ‘Well what a surprise, the thing I said wouldn’t work doesn’t work’ etc through gritted smiling teeth

Nothing tells you you’re back in London like a Tube train that’s put out of action because someone’s shat themselves at 4pm (a ‘code 1’ on the tannoy it seems, FYI)

People will tell you that carrot tops ‘make great pesto’ but I tried it once & the person I was cooking for said it was like eating hair. Which it was. One of the great cooking tip swindles