Guy does bass cover of Sarniezz by Angine de Poitrine on standard bass. This is good work. He tuned his D string 50 cents up from A, so that the A and D strings functioned like a single string with all 24 notes in scale. youtu.be/mMmy2F7ZQPA?...

This would make a cracking episode of '24 Hours in Police Custody'.

The BBC almost get it right.

Why do some of the curling brushes have buttons part way down the handles? #curling

Rest bite.

Qiaotou, in Zhejiang, China, produces 60% of the world's buttons and 80% of its zips. Our trouser security is in the hands of Xi Jinping.

Monaco is approximately 70% foreign nationals, so Ratcliffe doesn't mind living somewhere where there's a high proportion of immigrants as long as they're the right sort of immigrants.

Angine de Poitrine. This is right up my street. share.google/Gt6T3scIma7x...

Creep & Creepier

Looking at those who have signed up for this Board of Peace nonsense does not reassure me that Trump takes due diligence sufficiently seriously.

Just read a book on how to end sentences with Beatles song titles. That's two hours of my life I won't get back.

Boooooorrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnngggggggg! #davos

I'm expecting two men in white coats to escort him off the stage to a rubber room. #davos

Stealing this for my new band name. #belgianwhistles

Virginia Bottomley isn't related to Arthur Bottomley. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Commonwealth Affairs and declared, on landing in Zambia, that he was delighted to be in the Gambia. Zambia radio later announced the arrival of "Arthur Commonly, the British Bottomwealth secretary".

I'm getting a bit worried about Tories turning up in unusual scenarios in the dreams I'm having. Last night it was Virginia Bottomley. For goodness sake.

Anita Harris - 'Somebody's in my Orchard' #vinyl

Congrats to BBC News interviewing a man called Cliff who lives on the edge of a cliff. #bbcnews

#nowplaying 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' Elton John #vinyl

'Bowie: The Final Act' on Ch4 was very disappointing. The director would have been better to make a more in-depth 90min documentary about his last few years leading to his death and the release of 'Blackstar'. #davidbowie

No news today. Happy New Year everybody.

George Harrison and his cat Korky. #cat

Day 54 of Bach pilgrimage. Cantata 91 For Christmas Day.

Yuletide felicitations to all, from everyone here at Warren Towers.

'Leave it Tony, he's not worth it.'

Day 53 of Bach pilgrimage. Cantata 70 For the Fourth Sunday in Advent.

Overheard at Asda. An old dear in the turkey aisle. Old dear: 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?' Assistant: 'I'm afraid not, they're dead'.

Regarding Liz Truss fashioning new members of her Leconfield Club from menu items from Gail's, perhaps she could learn from Miranda Hart and surround herself with Vegetapals.

Lambeth Palace: "Now, is there anything at all in the past that we should know about before we give you the job?" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#nowplaying 'Catch Bull At Four' Cat Stevens #vinyl #catstevens

Hammersmith Palais trousers. #lewishamilton

It's 2026, and Donald Trump has just won Crufts.

Day 52 of Bach pilgrimage. Cantata 61 For the First Sunday in Advent.

Corbyn and Sultana should just forget about joining forces and go off and form their own separate parties. Called 'His Party' and 'Her Party'.

Letter from Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Dear Tom Thank you for your invitation to host a fundraising dinner in the private room of a top London restaurant. I would rather die. All the best Harold.

Do they have Bactrian camels in Egypt? #totp

#reading Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

#nowplaying 'Buddha and the Chocolate Box' Cat Stevens #vinyl #catstevens

#nowplaying 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Live 1975" Elton John #vinyl #eltonjohn

Day 51 of Bach pilgrimage. Cantata 139 For The Twenty-third Sunday After Trinity.

#nowplaying 'The Story of a Young Heart' by A Flock Of Seagulls #vinyl #aflockofseagulls

Had a very strange dream in which Lord Avon (Sir Anthony Eden) played a rôle. I wonder what it means.

Day 50 of Bach pilgrimage. Cantata 55 For The Twenty-second Sunday After Trinity.

Day 49 of Bach pilgrimage. Cantata 109 For The Twenty-first Sunday After Trinity.

Thinking about my grandfather today, John Warren, aged 29, one of the Merchant Navy dead. His ship the S.S. Empire Endurance was sunk 20th April 1941, torpedoed by U-73 south-east of Rockall in the North Atlantic off the west coast of Ireland. All hands lost. #remembrancesunday

#reading Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

I've seen two Christmas ads on the telly that use music by The Beach Boys (God Only Knows, and Wouldn't It Be Nice). I remember when the Beach Boys were regarded as the sound of summer but now they're providing conclusive evidence of global warming.

What Rosalind Franklin really contributed to the discovery of DNA structure. Repudiation of that Watson/Crick joke. It's not what happened. share.google/Biw59JVZ6ped...