I have just found out that in Japan there is a perfumier called 'Nose Shop'.

Thought for the day. There is currently so much data nearly 1 Yottabyte, that it would take 40,555 years to delete. So please delete those emails! But remember the act of deletion will create 100 new bytes.

Most new drama trailers shown on ITV, most feature its lead walking quickly towards the camera. ITV dramas tend to be disappointing and derivative but they do feature great walking quickly towards the camera.

I like to watch escaped balloons. The ones shaped like stars and numbers. Well, today I saw what I thought was a bird soaring at high altitude. Using my binoculars I saw that it was an escaped balloon, part of it was deflated. It must have been 20,000 feet up.

I have thunder, now where's my lightning.

It's raining and stormy, where's my thunder and lightning. Or rather lightning and thunder.

Does AI know if you are using other AI? If it does know, does it then act all huffy?

Does anyone remember if there was an 'I-Spy, book of dinosaurs'

Its 12.09 Sunday 24 August 2025, this day is dragging. The question I would like to ask is: How likely are you to recommend 12.09 Sunday 24 August 2025 to your friends and family?

I have just learned that of all the barmy tech ideas in Star Trek that the one that has the most realistic possibility of becoming real is the holodeck. I am boggled.

There are no folk songs concerning the daily life of comedians. Not even a mournful lament.

You are looking for one thing and find something else. From the Belfast News Letter 31 Dec 1966. ROSPA

The current generation 2012-2025 is known as Generation alpha. A better name would be, 'The Viral Generation'

Why visit Bluesky, I visit for the bourgeois on bourgeois action.

I have noticed something hideous. AI images of footballers. Once when a footballer was signed to a new club they would be photographed holding the shirt of their new team. Now a cold AI image appears on social media. Not noticed any polydactyly yet, but it is early days.

Off to pick up some real photo's. I am more interested to see how aged film stock turned out than the pictures.

This year may go down in history as the first AI Christmas. It is thought that many will make use of AI in picking gifts.

Have just visited a Biscuit company website and was asked would I accept all cookies.

Thunder but no lightning.

I have recently discovered that it is now no longer enough to die and expect to lie in your grave. You can now expected to give a little to charidy, on your birthday, accompanied by a little digital message either written or spoken, sent to your loved ones. Might be to annoy them, not sure.

I have just watched England v Wales, at one point the spectators performed a celebration that was not so much a Mexican Wave as a Swiss Roll.

Many other countries shun their miserable bastards but in the UK we give them a role in society. Of course they don't like it.

I was looking for something else. Is Blond the name of the publishing house, or the novels mentioned, about blondes? The Bookseller July 1965

I have never read an AI generated novel. Is it, at the beginning, the middle or the end, where the reader is asked to choose purple from a list of colours?

I have made my daily trip to Twitter. The monkey's are still throwing faeces.

I am warm.

I think Twitter may have finally gone complete 'Old Yeller'. It's rabid and foaming over there.

Cardiff Central has a Platform 'Zero'. Can't help feeling that the trains departing for somewhere more mysterious than Ebbw Vale.

These are definitely battleships? (The Tatler 5/2/1908)

I am on holiday. Mostly a holiday consists of doing the same things that you would normally do at home but in a different setting. Exactly like those sitcoms, where at some point in a series where an episode takes place in the country or abroad.

Once again, I have been promised thunder and lightning and once again I will be disappointed.

This morning travelled from Manchester to Tenby by rail, First Class. The first part from Manchester. Just me and the person I travelled with in one carriage. TFW. It was nice. 2nd part GWR. It was nice, also. More trains please.

Are there any charities that provide support to the middle classes? Perhaps a an imposter syndrome support group or somewhere that recycles yoga mats.

I see a common thief and genocidal psychopath has accused Keir Starmer of being on the wrong side of humanity.

I used to enjoy the crushed and smashed cornflakes found in the bottom of a box. Served with milk, bananam honey and creme freche they were a special treat. I think because of better product handling in shops the above rarely happens.

I am listening to a podcast about Alfred Hitchcock @moviehistories.bsky.social. I decided if'Psycho', was ever associated with other things. Surprisingly I found this:

I finished 'The Perfect Couple'. Fun.

Today I watched 'Explorer from Another World', on Amazon and am still watching. 'The Perfect Couple', on Netflix.

I am-rereading Graham Greene's Fragments of Autobiography. Today. This morning I read the chapter about Evelyn Waugh's death which happened on an Easter Sunday.

Because of something that I am doing, I need to use Instagram. I went through the set up. I then received a you have broken our rules by pretending to be somebody else. This has happened before. I always forget about Facebook. I have an account, but religiously avoid using it.

I watched 'Holland' on Amazon and liked it.

Has anyone else watched 'The Residence'?

You do not see an headline like this everyday London Evening News, 7 September 1954. The minister quoted later wiped out a generation of British military aircraft.

More Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail 1st October 1935

From the Nottingham Journal 1st October 1935. They appear to have made landfall in Darwin 1st November.

From The Scotsman 22 June 1903. A book review. Perspective: The Wright Brothers achieved flight December 17 1903.

I always imagine that la statue de la liberté hums La Marseillaise to itself.

That’s right. 🇺🇦

I had a school friend whose favourite trick was to eat a full size Mars Bar sideways. It was in the 70's. He later followed his father into the church. I always wondered if he still does it Perhaps to demonstrate the appalling strangeness of the mercy of god.

I am disappointed with Ai. It won't tell me how to activate to The National Security Act of 1947 for my personal gain!