It is with profound sadness that The Yorkshire County Cricket Club announces the passing of Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird MBE OBE, one of cricket’s most beloved figures, who died peacefully at home at the age of 92. Read more: yorkshireccc.com/news/harold-...

Sometimes our chickens kind of nest on top of each other and it can be hard to tell which is which. To correctly state how they overlap it is necessary to draw a… Hen diagram.

cabbage is the unsung MVP of the brassicas

Goodness. I made this in March and vacsealed it in May just to see what would happen. It’s turned out brilliantly, the blue flavour is like a sweet Gorgonzola and the paste is smooth and creamy with the odd crunchy crystal. Think I’ll be vacsealing all my blues from now on.

Update: it made a tremendous mess while cooking but it was worth it. 10/10 would make again.

I have rendang in the fridge and some roti in the freezer. I feel a jaffle experiment coming on.

ST2110 is pretty clever stuff. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

My sources the death penalty, for treason, being considered for Jimmy Fallon. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this.

It’s Canberra in September which means it’s TIME FOR SOME ANTIHISTAMINES!

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This is good fun, plenty of stuff I never would have thought of.

Four years ago today. #neverforget

Patriot. Sounds straightforward enough on paper but it was a magnificently odd thing.

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After 30 years of doing more or less the same sort of work, I am now a member of a professional body. I am amused but in a good way.

A Sigma 135mm F1.4 lens? Goodness.

Did they photocopy the Fender and Gibson product manuals?

Lars von Trier’s O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Just dropped a dad joke so pure and perfect that the cats all started breakdancing

Two months on. It’s turned out like a fancy feta. Not quite what I had in mind but it’s really good. Back in the cave to see where it goes from here.

How many barn parsecs is that?

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

People are always asking: “how does blue cheese get those straight lines of blue mould growing in it?”. The answer: by using an arcane technique developed by French monks centuries ago. Basically you stab it with a big fat needle.

Something something John Hopoate something Digital

My 2009 Camry has just clocked up 200,000km. Everything in it works the way it should and it doesn’t have any rattles or squeaks in the dashboard or elsewhere. It is definitely the bad sort of boring but it’s also the good sort of boring.

The phrase of the day is ‘claggy boak’.

Saw the Bell Shakespeare production of Romeo and Juliette. It was excellent but the whole thing could have easily been avoided if the teen protagonists were restricted from using social media

Any Given Sunday is a truly ludicrous film but it’s also tremendous fun. Not enough sports films have puking montages.

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Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!

We had a cat who would climb into open litter bags and do her business instead of using the tray. Took a moment to figure out why notionally fresh litter had nuggets in it.

That last one me reminds of Like A Prayer

EGG IN A HOLE BLACK AS YOUR SOUL I’D RATHER DIE THAN GIVE YOU CONTROL

Me at _least_ 50% of the time I have to do anything with reference to a vehicle axis:

Thought: set up a webpage that purports to be an LLM chatbot but instead just imports comments from boomer meme facebook pages.

Tonight I will be rubbing up a Stilton, if you know what I mean (and I think you do)

Would it be unethical to train an AI so when you poke it with a fork it says “wicked!”?

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I went to a Cracker Barrel once and my summary is: very slightly better than Applebee’s

Jerry Cantrell was the only one who should have been allowed to do solos.

Thou oughtst check thyself, lest thy wreck thyself

Thinking I might write a book about a decisive battle in World War Two. There’s a wide open market there if ever I saw one

Now do the Big Muff

About to eat a perfectly enormous mandarin.

Today I am getting annoyed by 'professional' video production equipment which has every form of digital video I/O and only unbalanced analogue audio I/O. I mean really.

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Dog Day Afternoon is on SBS movies right now if anyone wants to watch the greatest screen performance of all time.

Fun fact: there was a subwoofer designed purely for communication with elephants. Its design spec: must produce 10Hz at 100dB, two people must be able to lift it into the back of a 4WD.