Today's office view takes some beating.

We thought our new 3/O was fitting in well, but at handover he told me that dinner was steak pie, and that the mash was entirely superfluous. 1) it was steak pudding 2) gravy soaked mash is /never/ superfluous We had such hopes....

There's a bulker heading through the Dover Strait atm that's refusing to report in to the Coastguard. Just flat refusing to answer the radio.

The most beautiful ship in the world. Perfection. No notes.

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Naval nerds and flag fans. Get yourselves a copy of these. They are delightful.

Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University! 1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness. Details 👇👇👇

Listening to one side of a conversation where Channel VTS are telling a tanker they have no record of its civil liability insurance. Alas, can't quite make out the name, but they're reporting into the SE lane by the sounds of it.

As of Sunday we're going back to trialing the 'European' watch system. No more 4-8 for me this trip. I'll now be 0600-0800 and then 1200-1800. Yes, that's right, as a watchkeeper I have a full 12 hour uninterrupted break. What madness is this?

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

A water main has burst down the road, someone twatted my parked car and didn't leave their details, and the world is just... that gif of a bin on fire floating down a flooded road I guess. But I had a very enjoyable game of Battletech this afternoon. I lost, badly, but a fun time was had

#ProofOfCat I dumped my fleecy blanket in the corner while I changed my bed. Guess I'm not getting it back tonight.

After decades of on and off D&D I've just played my first ever game of Pathfinder (2e). I've got to say I had a great time, though a splendid group of fellow players and a decent DM definitely added to it.

Whats that you say? Papers Please meets Dredge.... In a /Lighthouse/ It's like people are designing games just for me.

PSA: the wine bar near my brother's serves bowls of melted cheese. ION: I am wine drunk. As an ale drinker, I don't know how bad this will be in the morning yet.

Questions landlubbers ask that make you scratch your head; Do you have stairs on your ship, or just ladders?

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Anyone want an admin job with our Navigation Directorate? trinityhouse.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... You might occasionally have to answer e-mails from me though.

My brother is lovely and keeps offering breakfast. I've had to explain that as a 12-4 watch keeper, breakfast is right in the middle of my sleep period, and honestly I'm fine waiting for lunch.

Safely off the ship and at my brother's. It seems Muppet Christmas Carol has changed streaming service, so this year we're watching Galaxy Quest. It's basically the same, right?

Proof that local FB groups don't know what they're talking about, number 11 million; Someone posted a picture of us today in the western Solent, someone else then protested "There after our fish why are they in our British waters it's an foreign trawler" My beautiful, beautiful ship ...

The lighthouse is always watching.

Well. That's my four hours of the watch through the Longest Night done. Now I'm going to bed. If the sun doesn't rise, blame my oppo on the 4 to 8.

I would like more of my science delivered in this manner please.

No offence to the golf fans but how do neither of the England Women's Rugby nor Football teams come away with the Sports Team of the Year?

Pentagon Pizza tracker shows 182% spike at Dominoes, 313% spike at Papa Johns, then 1 other about normal and 3 others super quiet. So who knows. </Satire>

Seafarers of Bluesky One of my cadets from the start of the year is doing their research project on seafarer fatigue. Can you fill out their survey at the link below, and pass it on to others you know? forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Why is this joke like high quality Mesopotamian copper ingots? Not everyone will get it.

I'm not sure where the BBC found the ex-ferry guy they interviewed in their latest news article about the Great Banana Spill of 2025, but those of us who work in safety of marine navigation would like a word about his risk assessments.

Everyday at sea is different and unpredictable. Today we're going to try and protect other ships from floating bananas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Saturday is steak night onboard. Sunday is a cheeseboard. Today we had steak and a cheeseboard. I think I'm caught in some form of temporal paradox. Don't send help.

Spotted and retrieved a French buoy that had been reported as missing and adrift this afternoon. Not sure if we can keep it hostage until a payment of wine and cheese is made, although we might settle for some artisanal pastries.

A fault on the ship's switchboard would sometimes cause the bridge phone to ring in a double ring pattern indicating an outside line. There are no outside lines, so we said it was just the Ghost calling as a joke. They rewired the switchboard, and now I haven't had a Ghost Call in months :(

It looks like someone forgot to water the bridge plant while we were on leave. It's been given a pint of the wet stuff, but we're not sure it'll recover.

Grabbing breakfast at a London train station on my way back to work. Some poor innocent server has just thrown the place into chaos by calling out to see who was waiting for a sausage roll. Gentle reader, they do not serve sausage rolls, it was my sausage bap.

Physics Nerds! Keeping the standard ration of 0.5 : 1 : 3 for Jenga blocks, are towers made of larger blocks more, less, or equally stable than smaller ones?

I did Hamlet for GCSE and finally got round to watched the R&G Are Dead film. Almost didn't recognise a very young Iain Glen as Hamlet, but what a cast in general. Enjoyed it, but suspect I'd've got more out of it if I had a basic level of philosophy to understand some of the deeper layers.

I was introduced to a lovely calming game today, called 'I've comissioned some bees'. Sort of like Where's Wally, but with bees. And that, your honour, is why I've just spent 45 minutes trying to find the last sodding bee in lovely pieve of art that I now know back to front and inside out.

Convinced my Captain to read This is How You Lose the Time War, so that's my good deed for the month.

Had a moment of nostalgia abotu a series of books I read as a kid so went to check and see if I could acquire them on the internet. For a smidgen over £2k I could get all 32 books (32 pages each) in used condition. I'm now sad about something I haven't thought of in years. Fucking boo.

Hear me out, but a D&D one shot based on Trap Door?

Thats everything thrown up by the service fixed - yey Thats the blower motor for the heating failing on the first day of snow - boo Might have to cut out /all/ the avacado toast if it keeps going like this,

I fear I've let me verification slip. Still, better late than never eh? #ProofOfCat

Today has been Annual Car Service Day, and tommorow is scheduled for Fixthe Expensive Things the Service Found Day. It's not a catastrophy, it could have been much worse all told, but still, I regret to inform everyone that I shall be cutting back on the 2nd latte and avacado toast for a while.

One thing you never get used to on light vessels, is the caked on layers of bird shit. The smell is literally staggering. ION: I've just been cleaning my boots in the shower as I'm about to put them away in a cupboard with all my gear for three weeks. It's helped, but the bin is still tempting...

Had the gentleman back onboard today as we're back alongside. We provided tea and Welsh cakes, he and his friend brought chocolate and whiskey. All's well that ends well etc etc

8-12 Watch keeper has Light Vessels on his brain it seems.

Our epic week of light vessel work is now done. Time for a quick smoko, then it's catching up with all the paperwork and prepping for all the statutory inspections we have tomorrow and Tuesday. Is it crew change yet?

After a day of towing LV07, swapping it out for LV10, and now having LV10 under tow, I've just used up a solid chunk of the ship's hot water supply just standing under the shower since I came off watch. I'm several layers of skin lighter, but the residuals of the bird shit LV10 was caked in are gone