Referee! REFEREE!! Has he received Paraguayan death threats or has he forgotten to put his contacts in? The standard has been so high this tournament that this mess is all the more surprising. #worldcup

Here, have a short but lovely rainbow.

Way before the "brexit" vote I spotted two things. The Independent reported that Putin understood that the climate crisis is man made. On the BBC Simon Reeve explored Russia and saw a massive fleet of ice-breaker cargo ships. Russia with Simon Reeve - BBC iPlayer share.google/NA7awAShS2Iv...

We have peak football, Norway and France, dragged into the gutter by the pointless prattle of McCoist.

GB News gives its take on climate change. This is what a propaganda campaign looks like. Who'd have guessed that the GB News co-owner runs a hedge fund with massive investments in oil and gas? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Ally McCoist is a waste of my time. He would be better value if he said nothing at all.

York. The view from the massive new Toppings bookshop, a gargoyle, an astonishing church tower, wildflower meadow by the city walls.

Why isn't the down escalator called the descalator?

Swifts doing their finest shifting, drinking from the tiny pool at our Athens hotel.

On a motorway heading towards Athens, there's a printers called Robocopy. Things I wish I'd thought of Number 832.

Our park has a "hug here" space.

I visualised a multipurpose box and made a prototype and am quite surprised that it all fits together perfectly.

I just watched Fearne Cotton being rude about Hannah Fry's explanation of a set theory paradox on Googlebox. Previously I had no opinion of her; it is now negative.

When the majority of Sunderland voted to leave the EU they'd not planned ahead for next season had they? I await the complaints as they queue at immigration and slowly realise that they brought it in themselves. I do not seek retribution, I shall feel sorry for them. I might also laugh a bit.

Plants growing in walls, part 2, the Barbican. That second one is Roman, part of the original London Wall.

An occasional series of plants that found welcoming walls.

Does anyone else speak absolutely no Mandarin but find themselves with tears in their eyes watching the snooker interview?

The swifts are here! I see four. #swifts

Small business life. We just got a project which means we have to cancel our planned two day break, so we went for a walk in the park and a smoothie instead. Not really a choice, as times are strange now, and you take your opportunities!

I have been asked to upload a CV for a business thing. Why would I have a CV? 14 years into running my own business, I have to write a CV.

Would someone tell BBC London News that the Femme in Tour de France Femme is pronounced fam? Thank you.

I love a staircase; this one is in a small office building on Borough High Street.

TikTok's new owners have stopped pretending that it's anything other than the money. This little banner just popped up to show me that the algorithm will be blocking me unless I pay up. Not surprised, just disappointed.

Did Artemis pierce a hole in something that was holding all the tech together? Because it's all gone to hell in a handcart this week. (This is a joke to comment on the current enshittification. Please nobody believe me.)

We got in the shortlist for the Fragrance Foundation's Perfume Extraordinaire award 2026 with Vianne's Confession. @joannechocolat.bsky.social we're in there with the big boys!

I do not want people in my life who will lie to me to sell me stuff or get what they want. Not politicians, brands, nor perfume salespeople. It's not "just marketing"; it's lying. It's not "playing a game". It's not "your truth". Can we stop accepting lies as just part of life? Thank you.

We've had a cancellation for Saturday's perfume class, which had been sold out for ages. If you fancy coming over and making your own perfume with my guidance, this is where you click. www.4160tuesdays.com/4160tuesdays...

I'm sharing our magnolia tree so we can take a couple of breaths and appreciate some beauty, while it lasts.

I opened my 32 page course book for perfumery 5 day scent school, and PowerPoint told me that it was a very long document and perhaps I would like AI to summarise it for me. Does anyone else find themselves regularly shouting at their own screens, "No! Fuck off!"?

Rainy day; cup of tea; ten minutes to kill. Most of you know what that means by now. #Storytime. New folk, this is when I write a story from scratch, here on Bluesky. And it always starts ike this: "There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve."

Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?

Read the whole thread. It's not really a surprise, but it's astonishing that no one seems to be getting arrested.

Is anyone watching the ice dance on TNT Sports? There's a commentator who has been picking fault in everything! I think she's just been told off for being such a misery as she's suddenly started being the tiniest bit kind.

Oh no you aren't.

My new favourite cafe. They're not wrong.

Absolutely cracking work here from Jim's team. I defend the BBC a lot, but when a small team is doing really solid work like this while BBC London is doing puff pieces about the Wicked films, it really does make you wonder what's gone wrong with the big news outlets.

Unpack a random box, find your dad's School Certificate from 1944.

We make and send perfume to our US customers, and accept that there are now 10% tariffs additional charges. Since 19th November DHL has been adding the product code for steel to all our paperwork, and charging 50% tariffs. They have done this to other perfume makers too. This is fraud.

He's not wrong. ://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?si=YSLGruE4Wq4ncQgJ

No, it's a train you effing numpty of a pile of nonsense.

Proof from Yorkshire that this is how to serve Christmas cake, with Wensleydale cheese. Cake baked and soaked in brandy for over a year by my sister.

London is one of the safest places in the UK, but the Media's constant racist narrative and knife crime hoax has convinced everyone else in the UK it isn't. Just as it has brainwashed everyone into thinking immigration is a problem.

Pitzhanger Manor this afternoon, inside and out, some Georgian perfection for you.

Every time I stray into Threads, I regret it, except for today's gathering of RLS. Also I bought myself a bag and customised it.

Is Google trying to tell me something?

Every time Freddie sang, "One hundred degrees, that's why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit" I wonder if Brian just sighed quietly.

Your timeline has been booped

That Argentine Tango knocked my sock off. Carlos is always marvellous and Karen is his match. I love them. May the karma fairies sprinkle goodness on them. #Strictly

What's wrong with Paul Smith's maths? (Who's buying two pairs? 😺)