Sitting in my home office this morning looking out onto the street and waiting for inspiration, I've seen 3 cement trucks already this morning, and remembered this (which my Pa used to sing- I thought he'd made up a song but no, it really exists) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdr...

I’d rather eat mashed potatoes than pasta. Every time.

Breakfast is half a pint of tea and two toasted teacakes with butter. I made them myself on Sunday. #smugbaker I ate them at my desk though.

Feral churches holding green communion growl at careless trespass. Their wild mysteries are not easily untangled. They scratch the soul, infect with untamed spirit. They place the language of vegetation upon the tongue and you find yourself offering thorned hymns. – #DAKilroy

Says it all, really. #Lincolnshire #Literacy

Found some macramé string in a bargain bin. Bought it on a whim. Haven’t done macramé since I was 10. Lets seen what a mess I can make…

Whoever thought 'edge to edge' cardigans for women were a good idea can do one. You never see buttonless cardigans for men, do you? I'm shopping for a cardigan that buttons up so it can do the same thermoregulating job at the front as it does at the back and the sides. Not a huge ask, is it?

My poor old editor brain is bolting away this afternoon. Compare and contrast: 1. Pumpkin spice is for spicing pumpkins 2. Cod liver oil is for oiling cod livers. #AmEditing

Unnecessary noun cluster of the day: 'naked eye visible' #AmEditing

A grey gloomy day. We’ve put the heating on for the first time. Shall we have winter now and get it over with?

Ever since the pensions planning meeting last week, my email has been spammed with messages saying I've sign up to all kinds of investment newsletters. No I bloody haven't. The only way you got my email was because #BlackTowerFM let you have it. Not cool, Black Tower. Not cool at all.

For #LincolnshireDay, there’s this. vimeo.com/38927384?fbc...

People with surnames beginning with W are discriminated against because they always come last in lists. Discuss. I bring this up now because it's to do with trying to join a thing that's a perk from my employer and being overlooked twice. I'm taking the issue to HR now.

"Pay no attention" Perfect. I love the way the paracetamol bombshell has been utterly deflated by proper scientists.

Going through old photos. These were my absolute favourite trousers in 1986-1988. I wore them until they had holes and even then I fixed the holes and carried on wearing them. My mum and my sis look good too. 📸

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

I’ve been listening to too many radio adaptations of 1930s literature. Tonight’s dinner is shepherd’s pie, cauliflower cheese and rice pudding.

Back at my desk after three days off. Feels like...

There’s nothing like waking up at sea.

Sleepless in #Louth? You’ll probably hear both of these chiming the quarters and hours through the night. (I was and I did, but it sounds so lovely and I’ve missed it ever since I moved away more than a quarter of a century ago.)

At a church book sale this afternoon I bought a book of farmhouse recipes, mostly because of this scribbled note inside the back cover - a remedy for varicose veins. “Take 20 conkers Cover with vodka” Also a lice remedy (not clear if for personal use or household). Anyway, it was 50p. Bargain.

These restaurant forks have seen some action. Must be good here.

En vacances in France. Pourquoi…?

After a few days off work bring at home catching up on chores before we drive into France next week, my brain is now untethered from the reality of work. This is today’s earworm. I’m really dragging them out from the depths, aren’t I? (Grandad used to sing it) m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzR...

There's hope for Lincolnshire yet.

One more week of work, then three weeks off. If we'd opted for a Lincolnshire summer holiday, this is what we could have expected (from the Mablethorpe webcam this morning). Never mind. France'll do.

Beginning of birthday breakfast - we’d just walked the dog for an hour.

Had to nip to the cash machine before starting work at home today. The cash machine is on the village main street where there's a teeny market with 4 stalls today. And that, dear reader, is why I'm eating very good hot fresh fried fish ('kibbeling') for breakfast at my desk.

Staggering how much chaos happens when you’re defrosting the freezer. I’ve been forced into emergency jam-making.

An upsetting, dystopian day. Military helicopters seen constantly circling our 6th floor Rotterdam office for the Summit, and a treasured colleague of more than 12 years made redundant today because of shortsighted govt cutbacks. It feels shitty, all of it.

Further to this morning's highly localised linguistic observation, just had US colleague in stitches imagining the insults used by an unlikely noncontemporary marauding duo of Havelok the Viking (GY)* and Nottingham's Robin Hood. "Stuff off you nunty cob..." *Also a subject of convo this morning

Nunty. I just used this word in convo with an American colleague in our Dutch workplace and had to explain what it meant, then I looked it up to check. It's only used around Grimsby, 10 miles away from where I grew up. I'm such a yellowbelly. codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?...

I am invincible (for this morning anyway) Wordle 1,459 2/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My week? Pleased it’s over.

I thought so. #NotAFan

Does anyone else's husband fill up the pepper mill with dark puy lentils instead of black peppercorns? This is the second time he's done it. Might have to start labelling the glass jars.

Lincolnshire is always going to be the outsider, the strange place, the dark area on the graphic map, the place you have to leave if you want a career, and the county with no public transport, isn’t it? I spent my first 35 years there.

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

If Starmer stopped chasing far right Farage’s inhuman policies and chased Ed Davey’s policies instead, this country would be a much kinder and fairer place to live.

Wistfully online window shopping for muu-muus and kaftans, and wishing that a) I still got 6 weeks of summer holiday like I did when I was at school 50 years ago (that feeling never leaves you) and b) I wasn't so thick around the middle.

Just been told that the ceramic coffee mug with a crack in it from the office kitchen (which leaked my coffee on the counter top) could go in the glass recycling bin. Ummm... nope. 🙄

'68 Guns' was in the charts when I went to The Alarm's gig during Freshers' Week at Trent Poly in September 1983. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

I love him I must marry him.

A beautiful house & lush garden for sale. Five minutes' walk from independent shops in a bustling Georgian market town at the foot of the Wolds, within earshot of the bells in the 14th century church, 20 minutes' drive from Lincolnshire's wide beaches. www.masonsandpartners.co.uk/properties/2...

"Dire wolves remain very extinct" Very angry geneticist Adam Rutherford on the sham science claiming to 'de-extinct' the Dire Wolf, & the ignorant press regurgitating this nonsense. Excellent account of what's actually been done, in clear (& very sweary) scientific terms.

I had pop tarts for breakfast. I'll report back later on how sustaining they are. I suspect not very.

Lunchtime dog walk has become a little more colourful this week.

I’ve just burned holes in my retinas taking this pic of the sun setting behind the standing sails stacked at the wind turbine factory. Setting sail from Hull headed back home to the Netherlands.

Baby wind turbines, about to fledge the nest.

Good morning Hull.