You really know it's the new year when your breakfast is porridge with collagen powder mixed in

Unknown photographer, Management Centre, 1985, USSR North-Western Integrated Power Grid, Riga, Latvia

Car admin was on my to do list for this week but my insurance renewal just arrived and is £6 a month cheaper than last year and the tiny local garage I'm gonna use for the MOT turned out to have online booking so I'm done pre 7am

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

I'm trying to enjoy herbal teas but they don't make it easy, do they? Related; I know it's well documented that caffeine feeds into anxiety but it turns out if I only have one cup of tea first thing not 3-4 teas/coffees through the tea I really don't feel jangly and horrible in the evening 🎉

Me and Lyndon fell asleep on the sofa watching telly last night. 19 had to wake me up. I used to go out dancing.

Obsessed with this lass and the reason she doesn't take naps

Was going to have toast but realised I neglected to buy bread so I was left with no option

To be fair to the rhino he's being a right dik dik

My dad had to get a fire going before the radiators would get warm

This is the skin of a killer, Bella.

We haven't had proper storm weather here. Just a bitter, gusty wind and rain. But I was still surprised to see the inevitable man-in-shorts out in the dark last night. And he had a woolly hat on? Pick a seasonal vibe good fellow

Ken Ferguson (Scottish, Birthdate unknown) "Nightfall", 2023. Watercolor, 20 × 13 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I have done a publish!! An alphabet colouring book for pre-schoolers - it was mostly to learn the process but I'm happy with how it turned out 😊 I'll get my author copies soon... amzn.eu/d/hZJE3Br

Are overnight oats any good or is it like eating cold sick?

The puppy has been sleeping to between 6 and 7. This week though she had the WORST teething happening. Bottom fangs coming through to the side of the old ones that were so lose they were flapping. So she had a few days of being up at 5 wanting to squish her face into me and we ended up going to

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

Niche news but just read that M&S is going to close it's Wakefield store and if there was a ever a final toll for a city centre...

Just saw some woman on insta build a £50 gift hamper for her mum and apart from a bag of tea-bags it was ALL cleaning supplies. I would explode. The kids would need the supplies to clean my remnants off the walls.

I'm now at the age where every time I feel rough in any way google tells me it's the perimenopause and I get mad but then I read the article and it is correct

Mattress delivery guy walking up the street with mattress. I opened the door, waved and said hi. He said hello and KEPT WALKING? I had to shout THAT'S FOR ME MATE and he looked confused. Did he think I just say hello to everyone? Or do people flag down and steal passing mattresses?

What is the thing where the weather keeps saying its -3 but feels like -8? It's not windy out so how/why would it feel massively colder than it is? Who decides what it feels like?? AAAAAAARGH

My mattress delivery was booked for 7am-6pm tomorrow but I've just had a text to say it's coming between 11 & 1 and I'm SO happy I don't have to get up early and then be stuck in all day

Leaving the house at 5.45 and -3° to take 19 to work is surely the perfect reality reset after having Christmas off

Back to normality tomorrow. Gonna miss taking a massive slug of Baileys with me when I have a bath 🥲

For day 11 of #12DaysOfXmas with #YorkshireCelebrities as #peatland wildlife, it's Bradford's (and Countryfile's) Anita Rani as devil's matchsticks (Cladonia floerkeana). This colourful lichen prefers acidic conditions and is failry widespread on the drier parts of our peatlands.

I'm actually starting mine tomorrow

The puppy has all 4 canines coming through while the baby ones are still there. She is very sad. Currently asleep upside down with her head poked in between my ankle and butt

We had a good run

I see your potatoes and give you my apple

The world is scary and sad RN so please enjoy these tinned potatoes I just found that look like CHEEKS

Made a humongous frittata out of leftovers for lunch and then realised it was after 4pm

She's helping me study

No cheating. Post your most recent pic of your pet. #DoingHerLooking

"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...

Thanks to @feckoff.bsky.social for finding this for me. It's Jeff Daniels (not Harrison Ford) in Timescape. Perfect if you want to watch a mad sci-fi preceded by one of the most hideous accidental deaths ever put on screen 🎉

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Lads, what is the film where there's a bloke driving a car (I thought it was Harrison Ford but apparently not?) and his wife is in the passenger seat and they hit a horse. The horse freaks out and is sprawled on the bonnet and kicks the wife to death through the windscreen

I won! 🏆🎉

Important to remember that resolutions start on the 2nd. No-one expects you to be virtuous and productive if you were up late and drank too much fizzy pop. (If you went to bed early and went for a run or similar nonsense this morning I'm very happy for you but keep it to yourself please/thank you)

For day 8 of #12DaysOfXmas with #YorkshireCelebreties as #peatland wildlife, we have Mirfield's Sir Patrick Stewart as a raven (Corvus corax). Our largest crow is an intelligent bird that mates for life. They are powerful fliers but playful in the air, tumbling mid-soar. Happy New Year!

Didn't trust tipsy Susan to make proper decisions about delivery slots etc but New Year Susan remembered paypal 0% credit exists so now I've got 2 bloody years to pay off a mattress that will arrive TUESDAY

Things Lola likes to do after getting me up at 6-7am: 1. Lick herself 2. Chew her toes 3. Stare intently, from an inch away, at the two places she previously found spiders which she then tried to eat 4. Get weird about my socks/slippers (pictured) 5. Lick the side if my tea mug (she burnt her tongue

Have we all woken up as better people, darlings?

Picture of the staff who operate my account

We've put Ronan on and it's cut to a couple with a woman dancing and screeching while a bloke stands behind her with a pint and absolute boredom in his eyes

Half stars for NYE and half Christmas puds. Except the icing wasn't right and mostly ran off the puddings and now it looks like a sex crime occurred 🥲