As always me and my people will now be asking ourselves the most important question which is...but what does this mean for Dr who???

I never had to deal with the crematoria where my mum and dad died. My dad handled for my mum and my husband handled it for my dad. So I don't have a point of reference but I can say, dealing with a pet crematorium? Is just seriously seriously upsetting. In a way that I don't think it needs to be.

I'm done.

There are builders doing their thing in my road (there's always builders. I'm not complaining. I have builders booked for January). Whatever they are doing, sounds like a succession of really loud farts. It's great. I'm laughing for the first time in over a week.

Sometimes I forget how much I love Dexter Gordon.

The Trainline app is such trash. It used to be one of the best apps there was but now? You try to use it and it's like looking at a local news website. Just woeful. How did this happen.

You would think that at my age I'd've used up my quota of tears. You'd be wrong.

I shall be hearing the people sing. Again. For like the billionth time. RAH website fell over WHAT a surprise. But I prevailed.

Too soon #COYS

Actually I'm thinking more and more that *every* day is clearly not a day for me being online. Upsetting stuff going on, upsetting people doing what they do... wrong people doing what they do... football about to be doing what it does... it's all one big trashpocalypse.

Today is clearly not a day for me to be online.

Is this not basically Judge John Deed?

Cheese (bit of a cheat because I'm vegan AND I have a serious dairy allergy but of all the foods I won't/can't eat this is the pinnacle) Bambi You can't always get what you want

I have now paid for my kitchen.

Just paid for the kitchen. I'm gonna be holding my breath now til it's actually... there.

If when why what

Increasingly I'm seeing people saying stuff along the lines of: 'AI is definitely no good for what *I* do, but see that person over there, it would be great for what *she* does'.

Music really is the only thing.

I am on my last nerve with IKEA. Who else does kitchens in the IKEA price bracket?

Some people are so rude.

I had to look that up. I had no idea they were still making those. I must have seen the first film a million times and none of them were by choice. Incidentally I enquired about the mando film with the culprits from the avatar business and they say Zeb is gonna be in it. So I might be seeing that.

Trains are all ducked today. Thus, I’m wondering who thought it was a good idea to run one of those exotic experience trains along our track which is making this worse.

I went to the Cinema last weekend. For the first time since Glad 2. And I'm going to the cinema tomorrow also. This is...weird. But also good.

@iainl7.bsky.social on an unrelated matter. Do you know anything about AirPods?

I'm getting increasingly irritated by Royal Mail lying. And then lying again in a way inconsistent with the first lies.

Service quality is plummeting all over the place. Ikea, Royal Mail, trains and planes...everything seems to be gradually falling apart...

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the iPhone version of Instagram back, if you're using an iPad? The font size on the new iPad version is tiny.

WTF has happened to Instagram?????

Where I live, and where I go in August, this summer has been nowhere near as hot as the really hot summers (eg 2003) yet the Graun says it has been the hottest summer ever. But without explaining the basis for that statement. Are they talking about the average temperature maybe?

Sorting through a box of old vinyl I found the Doctor Who variations on a theme record. God the memories that brings back. Good old Keff (that's the track I love). It was a weird time in my life, in some ways horrific but in others very happy. And through it all Dr who saved my life. Literally.

I love a ton of trashy stuff. I place a high premium on being entertained and/or comforted and I'm not always looking for, you know, the most exquisite acting ever to be immortalised on screen.

Oh I do like to go to the prom prom prom. Also planning a stroll. Brass band status unknown. But...orchestra anticipated. The bad side is getting such an early train. And leaving the house. But mainly the earliness of the train it felt like a good idea when I booked it. The feeling was wrong, obvs.

lads... 😁😁😁

The discourse about possible property taxes ...and savings/inheritance etc... all seems to assume that kids will get jobs and move out of their family homes. But there's already a graduate jobs crisis and it's only gonna get worse.

I just read the wrongest wrong thing in the history of wrong things, and resisted the temptation to challenge the wrongness. This is growth.

@radiobeartime.com do you know where the notifications info has gone with the new iOS (iPad)? Used to be drag down from the top of the screen but now?

Watched one of my very very favourite films this afternoon. Nearly died laughing.

There are actually 4 current TV programmes that I want to watch. Gilded age, Fake or fortune, Foundation and Bookish. When you add in the Proms as well ... this is *highly* unusual.

If anybody who likes c20th music didn't see/hear last night's prom on the BBC, I urge you to seek it out on iPlayer. It was fabulous. I feel *so* lucky to have been there.

I always forget how much I do not like performing in concerts. And then concert day comes round. And I remember. And swear to never do it again. And as soon as it over... I forget once more. And the cycle repeats. I suspect I am not alone.

Tenth rewatch of DS9 finished this evening. I cried *ugly*. As always. It's perfect.

John Lewis have started charging for click and collect! WTF???

Twelfth night tickets achieved! Not as pricey as I thought they would be, either.

I'm going to the Proms on Sunday to see the Ravel piece... really looking forward to it.

Every 6 months I think about how terrible our banking system is now and I have a little weep of frustration and ... well. Fear.

Cricket really is the best sport.

Has anyone upgraded to Sequoia OS and been able to turn off Apple intelligence completely?

He could have not run away when a problem of his making crystallised...?

Me too.

According to today's polygon puzzle, strim is not a word. What then does one do with a strimmer?