Got myself a cordless drill

Tell me your great three album runs

Enjoying Haggis, Neeps and Tatties for an early Burns Night Supper

Well this is sure to give the haters pause for thought

Spent an hour doing the Big Bird watch and no sign of him

Sausage sandwich at Magee St Bakery

Concerts that I have been to with female singers Joni Mitchell Rickie Lee Jones Patti Smith Working Week The Bangles

Quote an actor in the wrong film: “Let's start at the very beginning, A very good place to start.”

Ruin a (short) movie or a TV series by adding ‘if you know what I mean’ Twin Peaks … if you know I mean

I enjoyed this introduction to the language of Liverpool - and so might you

Post a post punk postie

This was the headline that did for me today

“The Good Old Days” With our Tesla strap-ons we’d shout with glee, Then Mum would call us in for tea

The venue where I saw my first concert, and the act. www.setlist.fm/setlist/pink...

What was your #childhoodcinema The Embassy in Crawley (opened 1938) was the first one I remember visiting in 60s - to see Mary Poppins. Saw 2001 there; Star Wars, Gremlins, Saturday Night Fever, Airplane (x3 in 1 week). Late night previews of Trading Places & Beverley Hills Cop. Closed 1999

My nephew joined an Ancestry app and discovered the form my grandfather filled in when he was released from a Nazi POW camp. Part of the camp is preserved as a museum. Website tells a bleaker tale than I imagined based on movie portrayals of similar camps

Post shall speak unto post

Fingers crossed

I can’t think what my favourite video might be but I enjoyed this one take (?) piece of fun

Waiting for 2025 to end

I am an insignificant Clerk in a Dublin office in the early years of the Twentieth Century. I have delusions that I could have been or could still be a poet.

This Dungeon will NOT be getting a good review on Whipadvisor

Make a Bond movie Scottish: Octohaggis

On Her Majesty’s Public Service

Just recovering from making, eating and clearing up after this delicious meal of Roast Duck.

I was obsessed with this as a kid but sadly never got one

Now Listening 👂 #nowlistening #Sinatra

As a special Xmas treat for you, here are some 2000AD annuals that I just dug out my folk's attic. What the flip was going on with Dredd's helmet in 1980? Stop sniggering at the back there.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go Apparently I am going to get caught up in a convoluted sex comedy

#PeoplesPop25 Day 5/7 夢中猫 (Crazy Cat) - Haku 4 young women from Japan who bring a sense of joy, energy & camaraderie. Thanks to @jelbugle.bsky.social & @dubdobdee.bsky.social for introducing me to them. There’s a more expensive video on their YT channel - but then you miss their delightful FACES!

show me how your 2025 went

#PeoplesPop25 Day 4/7 LooseTalk - Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt Having spent much of his career trying to conjure up an ideal woman Bryan lets her speak for herself while he stays ‘refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails’. Did I prophesy this? See quote post and decide.

#PeoplesPop25 Day 3/7 WRSW - pôt-pot Another Irish band. I don’t recall where I first heard this but made a note that I liked it - and it turns out I still do. Shades of Neu, Joy Division and Electrolane plus anyone else you can think of with a motorik beat

Now following for up to date cheese bulletins

#PeoplesPop25 Day 2/7 Tonight With The Dogs I’m Sleeping - Bonnie Prince Billy The Purple Bird might turn out to be Will Oldham’s Nashville Skyline, before he reverts to desolate tales of random cruelty. Anyway this is a well crafted goofy riff on low stakes marital strife

#PeoplesPop25 Day 1/7 The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station - CMAT There are a few songs I could have picked from the Euro-Country album but this is the biggest banger IMO

Oh noes! I’ve gotten Bluesky clout by mistake! (100+ likes & 20+ reposts). What should I do? Help me @jelbugle.bsky.social - You’re my only hope!

Saw ‘The Doors’ where an ‘over stimulated’ audience member attempted a loud dialogue with the characters. He was removed just as Jim Morrison was arrested onscreen. “They got me too Jim!” He cried “They got me too!”

Me, looking at the UK Christmas TV schedules

This might be of interest @jelbugle.bsky.social

Crucifixion Diptych No doubt about choosing this one from 1460. Rogier van der Weyden’s paintings often contrast the embodiment of intense emotional states with flat areas of tone and colour that amplify the mood. They also prefigure (and may have inspired) Francis Bacon’s work

No great works of literature from 1910 that really appeal to me, although surprised that Howard’s End was written that early. This is Rousseau at his most exotic:

#NowListening #theUnthanks

From the geyser ventilators Autumn winds are blowing down On a thousand business women Having baths in Camden Town

For the hardcore Tolkien fans

Young at heart

What I’m wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party

I’m delighted that this exhibition of work by Euan Uglow is coming to Milton Keynes Gallery early next year

From the same year as N*E*M*S Could that be Esther? @badmachinery.com