I'm going to do it! And I'm going to skeet them as I close them, so you can enjoy the random stuff that's clogged everything up too.

Happy Christmas all, Shaun the Sheep along with Wallace and Gromit are available all over the iPlayer if you get stuck and need reassuring it will somehow all be ok x

Chris Rea a couple of days before Christmas was a low blow, even for the Reaper :(

A word to the wise. When buying a car just like your old one, make sure the locking wheelnuts in your glovebox are for the new car, and the ones you thought were the old ones are 100 miles away. Don't ask me how I know this.

In brighter news, I get to work with Fairport Convention next spring so that's nice.

The next 10 days have too many things in them and I'm tired already

Very sad to hear Martin Parr has died. I felt honoured to welcome him into my home just a couple of months ago. A great artist and a true gent.

Jetlag is overrated

Well done to the cafe I was in this morning who intentionally 'Whammed' a smug dad while his kids were in the loo. Grandma grassed him up, backed up by waitress. Nice one Grandma.

A peace prize. Really?

It seems I've spent a lot of hours listening to Monty Don audiobooks this year. I couldn't recall a line of it if asked, but I've not felt lonely.

Yesterday I moved an extension lead so I can plug my laptop in when in bed and I guess I'm just here until March now?

Today I've been working with some very excitable Italians, and chatty Swedes that make me feel like I should work on expanding my vocabulary through their exquisite use of theirs.

Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…

😞💔

I disturbed two owls whilst driving this morning. One of them had white under their wings, I'm about to fall down an Internet rabbit hole on owls now aren't I.

Spoiler, Scotland men won 9-3. Same for the women tomorrow would be lovely but first to play some pesky and rather brilliant Swedes.

Scotland's Men going for bronze against Italy in the same competition. I don't think about it for years then thanks to work, getting suckered into Curling. Again.

In other Curling news, the Scottish women's team are IN THE FINAL TOMORROW. 8am. (Not like the very early morning shenanigans we all went through a few years ago).

This is lovely x

If you're a fan of curling and like a little something running sneakily in the corner of your work screen... Scotland are playing Sweden on the iPlayer.

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Brain, please note that you're depriving yourself of a good few hours sleep at this point. The alarm is fine I have checked it 4695346 times

Why does our trust in alarms evaporate when we're getting up early and it's really important

Train home to the coast. A beautiful dusk walk across Waterloo Bridge nearly had me staying.

Coffee shop in London. Person at next table self identifies to their table mate as 'bi-adjacent'. This is a new one on me.

If night driving on the M1 in thick fog teaches us anything, it's that a worrying number of people don't know where their fog lights switch is.

Caught in the Cloudflare soup.

I know someone who is a teacher in a NY school. She says that some of the undocumented kids have 'disappeared' and she's not sure if they have been withdrawn by parents or taken by authorities :(

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Gaaaaaahhhh traiiinnnss

‘The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible.’

Sometimes, the art seems to simply make itself.

The thrill of being winked at never gets old does it.

Howard Jones was 70 in February and still goes at it harder than all of the top 40 put together. If you have tickets for his tour, get prepared because trust me, you're not. Wear sequins. Take sunglasses. The encore alone is worth the ticket price. A full Forum in Bath just had one hell of a night.

A man in fancy shoes and a flouncy jacket just walked into a lamp post. Yes I'm in Bath how did you guess.

Amol probably will, Armando won't.

'Ordinary Love' is on the iPlayer. I knew Lesley Manville was a gem but heavens she's amazing in it.

No, YOU just found something from 2018 in your freezer.

Booking cinema tickets online. Why does the automated system believe that in a room of 200 seats with about 10 people already booked and paid that you want to sit next to them? 190 empty seats and you think I'd like to sit next to someone? No.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

I've just got my new passport. I know the colour of the cover doesn't matter but somehow it still does 😖

I live on an island. The bridge is presently closed due to an accident involving a bus, I'm mainland side. Apparently there is a whole funeral cortege stuck on the other side of the bridge further down trying to get off 😞.

I'm in what I think may be my new new favourite cafe this morning. Temper Trap and Art of Noise sit surprisingly well alongside Abba and Busted (yes, really) on the playlist, the coffee is excellent and the vibes are.

Ouch.

the universe is only constantly expanding to get away from earth

Brutal session with a kind but very firm physio this morning. Blessed to not have any work today and to have been able to go back to bed.

I've just discovered the Bill Nighy 'Ill advised' podcast and it is everything you'd hope and more.

The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.

Before yesterday, it had been a while since I was last shat on by a seagull. Still not convinced it is a lucky thing at all.