Gotta love an empty stage before a gig. With added guitar tech.

Imagine for a moment that our planet, teeming with life in all its diversity and wonder, is alone in the universe. And this is how we run it. On the up side there’s no one around to critique it.

BBC news talking about the scale of the “casualties” in Iran. I think they mean massacre.

To those of you who don’t know, Lucinda Williams is one of the great musicians/songwriters of our times and on her new one, The World’s Gone Wrong, she’s angry. It’s brilliant and if you don’t like her stuff You’ve Gone Wrong.

To those of you who don’t know, Lucinda Williams is one of the great musicians/songwriters of our times and on her new one, The World’s Gone Wrong, she’s angry. It’s brilliant and if you don’t like her stuff You’ve Gone Wrong.

It’s like a soap. I love you Den I love you Ange I hate you Den I hate you Ange With nice singing.

An empty stage.

In the least shocking of developments the toddler has turned.

A toddler with his finger on the nuclear button. Nothing to worry about.

I’m going to write to Trump and offer him our house as a strategic base at a *very* reasonable price. It is very handily placed for the World darts and Masters snooker.

BBC News on Valentino’s signature colour- Valentino Red. Also known as red.

Someone tell him Greenland isn’t green so he won’t be able to build golf courses there.

Someone tell him Greenland isn’t green so he won’t be able to build golf courses there.

Those soft doughy monstrosities that supermarkets sell as bagels, well they are not bagels that anyone deserves to have to eat. This one is high baked, crispy on the outside and delightfully soft on the inside. Sticking them in the oven bt 180 and 200 for a few minutes will help inadequate ones

Those soft doughy monstrosities that supermarkets sell as bagels, well they are not bagels that anyone deserves to have to eat. This one is high baked, crispy on the outside and delightfully soft on the inside. Sticking them in the oven bt 180 and 200 for a few minutes will help inadequate ones

Open question: what kind of person puts this amount of cream cheese back in the fridge?

One in a small series of TV recommendations: Pluribus

To see or not to see. * based on the below, no.

Serving MPs should be allowed to change political parties. It should then be mandatory for them to face a by-election.

Serving MPs should be allowed to change political parties. It should then be mandatory for them to face a by-election.

Jeremy Bowen on BBC News suggesting the people demonstrating for the Iranian regime are doing it willingly. You just scratch your head at this level of analysis.

I had the pleasure of listening to @stephenkb.bsky.social speak yesterday, then had a quick look at his feed on here and now I’m wondering if he ever sleeps and what kind of hoover his neighbours have.

Thinking of the people of Iran today. I can only imagine the extent of the cruelty being rained down on those protesting. They are our brothers and sisters.

Currently streaming erm *quite* loud: Hypnotic Eye-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers A fantastic album, full of tunes, melodies, riffs, everything really. Much missed- but what a final recording.

Sadly, nothing that has occurred in the five days since I first posted this has shown it to be inaccurate.

The Head Coach says goodbye 14 months is quite high That’s Amorim. 🎼🎼🎼🎼

The Head Coach says goodbye 14 months is quite high That’s Amorim. 🎼🎼🎼🎼

8 hour beef rendang. Food of the gods.

8 hour beef rendang. Food of the gods.

It’s increasingly like the Wild West.

“In any state that was half good you would be raised up high, not here, for what you have done already” Thomas More’s daughter Margaret to her imprisoned father in A Man For All Seasons. Words we can live by.

I like Ron Sexmith’s music but about four albums a century is not prolific.

I like Ron Sexmith’s music but about four albums a century is not prolific.

Good way to spend early part of New Year’s Eve.

Marty Supreme. Lives up to the name.

I for one would love to know the *context* that makes it all acceptable. No, didn’t think so.

I am in reflective mood today. This the sixth anniversary of my mother’s death. For everything that you were and everything that you were not, the good, the not so good, I miss you mum.

If it was possible to do what George Bailey is able to do and see what the world would have been like if he had never existed and just have a smidgeon of his feeling that he made it a better place it would be something though wouldn’t it?

Watching It’s A Wonderful Life again. Am in bits as usual.

Isn’t Paddington 2 just a brilliant film? Such a shame the mess they made of 3.

Very disappointed that Pluribus is not a detailed documentary series about transport privatisation.

I watched the latest Knives Out film and I loved it except for it being so long that by the time we reached the denouement I didn’t care who did it because I was suffering from mince pie withdrawal symptoms.

Now I know why I’ve never watched the Strictly Christmas Special before. As if the main programme isn’t quite cheesy enough. Let’s have one of those BCC ads reminding us that we fund this immediately after. Sorry.

Our annual Xmas day trip to Tayyabs.

Best schnitzel of 2025.

Merry Xmas. Let there be peace and love not war and hate. xxxxxx

Expect Andrew is perspiring now.

At the moment it feels as though the more humans evolve and the more technology expands the more stupid we get.

I particularly love the ginger mog with the kitchen roll. Absolutely weapons-grade catting.

I still feel a mix of numbness and anger a week later. It’s made worse by people disputing the power and meaning of words. After the bullets have struck. This must have been something like how the early 1930s felt.