The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

Nadelik Lowen! Onen hag oll. Merry Christmas 🎄

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

I made a Yule Log with honey fungus sprinkles (aka crunchie) #fungifriends

That is so awful, such a catastrophic breech.

WANT

Very happy with that #strictly

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go…

Annnd another sex pest bites the dust and another ones gone …….🎶🎶

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

My #TheArchersXmasBingo sheet. #TheArchers

Oh my god…

A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.

One of those promos the BBC used to be so good at making. A raft of comedy talent on display here

Anyone got a go to, easy peasy, chocolate Swiss roll recipe. I’ve put my hand up to make the Yule Log this year and never made one ever.

This is by far my favourite thread today

Republican congressman 👇🏽

Walking into 2026

Annoying

You can just ignore him and wear one if you want to I had the flu jab but here I am now with flu

Our The Real Housewives

Morning

I love winter beaches, not a soul about and finally the rain held off. Spot the Spanner 😏 #Northumberland #Warkworth

While I was standing in the paper queue on Sunday, chat turned to ‘only 2 weeks’ until it starts to get lighter. Me: 2 minutes a day Pest control chap: my gran always said a Cocks Stride a day. Slightly hard of hearing Retiree: better not look that up on Google Anyway - soon be Solstice

We’ve picked up the Radio Times and viewing on non-streaming sites is as shit as everyone is saying.

Sinead O Connor is a true icon and activist - appallingly treated, frequently misunderstood - she is one of my heroes - today is her birthday

This is a lovely idea. If you’re not familiar with @wombat37.bsky.social, you’ve missed out. He’s been an uplifting presence on here, and has dealt with his approaching death with extraordinary openness, honesty, bravery and humour. One of the very best on here.

I think I might give Titanique a miss.

@katebevan.com can I just thank you for the Christmas download, it is playing whilst we are putting up the tree* *it’s up but lights blew so we are delayed until new lights sourced. Tunes are banging and just giving us the joys. 🙏

Hey @grumpygirdle.bsky.social Despite the poorly fug at your house, is tomorrow cat day?

Hahahahahaha FIFA

I suspect there’s someone in a cellar with their FIFA spreadsheet rubbing their thighs.

Appropriate that the FIFA peace prize they're giving to Trump looks like a bunch of zombie hands rising up to destroy the globe.

Dear Gianni Infantino I am looking forward to seeing who England and Scotland get in the World Cup Draw. Talking of the latter, here is a short message from one of their most revered supporters......... Sincerely Anyone with a soul watching this shower of shite #WorldCupDraw

Fuck off FIFA and your peace prize.

i've said it before and i'll say it again: we all need to be reposting jokes more

I suspect this article framing is a way to criticise the upcoming doctors' strikes. The real cause for alarm for me is that the NHS is going into this winter stressed and stretched *yet again*. We should have a health system that can cope much better with winter pressures and we just don’t. 7/8

The socialist & suffragist Selina Cooper was born in Callington on this day in 1864. “Women do not want their political power to enable them to boast that they are on equal terms with the men. They want to use it for the same purpose as men – to get better conditions”. @annagelderdmp.bsky.social

No idea why I’m listening to this horror 🏏

Flipping ‘eck 🏏

Very grateful for any shares of the post below. Thank you! 🙏🏻⬇️

Britain: where overstating your junior chess playing skills is worse than being accused of tormenting Jewish kids with songs about the gas chambers

😱😭😭😭

My most-used words in 2025 were: If only ‘labour’ was used in praise, rather than disappointment. 1. "morning" (25×) 2. "labour" (18×) 3. "northumberland" (16×) 4. "brilliant" (10×) 5. "happy" (9×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

Thoroughly enjoyed the drop of the first chapters of #strangerthings Perfect mix of - ooh that’s nasty, no idea what’s going on, good laughs and ecstatic cheering.

Splann!

The #Observer magazine is becoming pointless and unreadable.

Whoop! Exciting news – we are delighted to share that we have been awarded funding from The National Archives Research and Innovation programme for our Mapping the Past for the Future project, which will start next year.