Explain your @ This is enough of an FAQ for me that I actually created a detailed answer, once upon a time… gothick.org.uk/about/why-go...

Sheltering from the rain. Honest.

"...and then, *after* that, you fall into the harbour." "Sounds great! Sign me up!" #bristolbirdman

Points for effort. #birdman #bristol #bristolbirdman

I can't stop thinking about this utterly delicious anecdote in last week's Guardian Q&A with Mark Williams...

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

I’ll never understand people who listen to podcasts at 1.5x. The point of podcasts isn’t to consume information as efficiently as possible. The point of podcasts is to never, ever risk being alone with your own thoughts for even a moment.

Disappointing to see even Paul Simon is now promoting this awful technology.

Yeah, man, I hear there's this new duckling drug called FROTH. All the kids are doing it.

Why yes, thank you, I do indeed have all my ducks in a row. #photography #bristol #chewvalleylake

Sarah Michelle Gellar pays tribute to Anthony Head: "'Tell Giles I figured it out and I'm ok.' Well I don't have it figured out and I'm not ok. But I know I'm the lucky one because I knew you. Thank you to Daisy and Emily who not only shared their dad with me, but with the world."

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

It's a bit grey out there today. #bristol #photography

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well, seeing as you asked, what I like about my purchase is that I can now fry things in a pan. What I dislike is the eighteen fecking follow-up emails asking me to rate everything from the fixed smile on the face of the lad in the Sainsburys Argos Liminal Space to the frying qualities of said pan.

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

I’d’ve watched _1990_ before now if I’d remembered how drop-dead-gorgeous Barbara Kellermsn was, perhaps from playing Jadis in the 1980s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Goodness. Gosh. Phwoar, etc etc. #culttv

Went for a coffee before the weather got too hot. Harbourside's looking nice today. Especially the SAAB 900 that always makes me feel nostalgic for the one I had for a while. #bristol #photography

Severance might be the best television show I’ve seen since The Prisoner.

Went for a wander in #Portishead before it got too hot this morning. Well, maybe the first half hour was before it got too hot. The other three hours it was bloody boiling. Thank you to The Windmill for their aircon and swift delivery of much cool liquid, and to the Lido for ice cream. #photography

I was responsible for this (it was literally my idea while I was Product Manager for Media Playout at the BBC) and it is still my proudest achievement ever

As usual, I am watching something bang up to date.

Claudia Winkleman went on to have a successful career as a TV presenter

*pounding on a novelist’s door* “You better not be relying on the steady accretion of detail in there!!”

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

RIP to all of them, each amazing in their own ways. And yes, Gareth did insist on signing his name above Paul’s 😂. So glad to have met Michael and chatted about the Oldbury on Severn nuclear power station!

Very sad to hear Michael Keating, Blake's 7's Vila has died. He was so good and will be very much missed.

Unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent after traveling underwater roughly ten miles towards the ice shelf’s center. www.earth.com/news/ran-rob...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Sally is an angel.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.. www.ebay.com/itm/80000163...

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Is it just me, or might it be a sign that your plans have gone a little too far if you're manually dragging a floating platform with a cherry picker balanced on it toward the problem... #bristol

Bit loud, this pub jukebox. #bristol

Shot Tower #bristol

It's good to see Brigantia back in the Bristol Ferry fleet at last. #bristol #photography

On a shout #bristol

Slightly increase a band: T;Pau

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Backwards. #bristol #photography

Defaced. #bristol #photography

Lounge light

Sterling delivery work there, Amazon, leaving a parcel small enough to fit through my letterbox in someone else's recycling bin, in the rain.

See, I did have hair once.

Back home, processing some photos. Even the rainy days are quite photogenic in Crete.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I politely suggest those surprised to hear King Charles III refer to the importance of checks and balances on the exercise of power by those in authority do some reading on how King Charles I and King Charles II handled these things and the consequences for all concerned.