Last night I dreamt I found a recipe for the most amazing light, fluffy and bouncy gluten free bread rolls. I emailed it to myself but sadly this morning there is nothing in my inbox. *sigh*

I am belatedly thinking it might not have been a good idea to watch the first episode of Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue immediately before bed 😬

Sometimes when the cat miaows at me I think he's asking "How much longer do I have to be a cat? When will I be a real boy?", and it tugs at my heartstrings.

Dear advertisers: for the last time, Enola Gay is NOT A CHEERFUL SONG.

Give this account a wide berth. They steal posts from others including the Auschwitz Memorial account without credit. Retired English professor, my foot.

Never interrupt your enemy* when they're making a mistake**. * the cat ** eating the food they flatly refused two hours ago

Husband bought some electric hair clippers because he finally cracked and could no longer face listening to the (Turkish) barber's pro-Brexit/pro-Reform/anti-immigration opinions. I cut his hair this morning. No disasters. We are still married.

It’s over for us

I swear freshers get younger every year. This year's intake are just BABIES and they're being allowed to wander the city's streets unsupervised 😱. (In fact quite a lot of them are *literally* wandering the streets - do they not teach the Green Cross Code in school anymore?)

When even the BBC doesn't know the difference between 'honed' and 'homed'. *bangs head on desk*

This week I have been mostly making mistakes.

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How bad does he have to get before the men in white coats arrive??

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) Printmaking and why it's amazing 2) @barleyhallyork.bsky.social and why it's amazing 3) York and why it's amazing No...wait...come back....

There's nothing like hearing that someone you spent the weekend with now has COVID to make you feel a bit iffy.

Watching (on delay) tonight's MasterChef with the four finalists cooking in Athens, and remembering how Kirsty Wark couldn't see why they didn't just film the whole series again 🤦‍♀️

Mike's newsletter is so good I actually pay for it. And according to this it is currently discounted.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

My contribution to this evening’s Locally Sourced Comedy ‘B’ themed raffle. From 7.30pm at Little Drop of Poison on Fore Street, Exeter. It’s Exeter’s premier new material comedy night largely funded by a raffle-based economy. Come along it’s always a great, unpredictable night.

I'm sure I won't be the only one posting this today.

Meanwhile I have just unfollowed someone whose response to this bizarre (aka American) final group was to post a screenshot of the solution. Posting spoilers, or even just hints, for daily puzzles that people might not have done yet is very much not cool.

I'm sorry but that last group is what?? Go home Connections, you're drunk. Connections Puzzle #835 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

What fresh hell is this? I go to the Sainsbury's groceries site to update this week's delivery and find the home page now features customers' Instagram photos of their home cooking. Apparently I'm meant to be 'inspired'.

May I introduce a group of wonderful people and very valued friends: the York Printmakers. Pictured here at the end of our annual print fair (which this year included a day of spectacular rainfall and bitter cold) when we were at that stage of extreme tiredness which borders on mild hysteria.

I dreamt about this last night - in my dream I was playing one of those quiz games where the first part of a song is played then the sound is faded out and you have to keep going in time until it comes back. I won because I knew it so well and also because no-one else had heard of it.

'Journey'. DRINK! (Yes I'm watching the Strictly intro show).

[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

Oh my, how beautiful is this?

That's tomorrow, that is.

I fervently and sincerely hope that Sir Sadiq Khan is invited to a high profile dinner by King Charles III in the next couple of weeks. Maybe to celebrate low crime and multiculturalism in London. apple.news/AjYT55xa4SHe...

In which (among other things) I invite you to join me this weekend at the York Printmakers Print Fair.

An update to my old Zettle app overnight means my home screen now has an icon that says 'PayPal POS', and every time I see it I think 'Well it's not *that* bad'.

Oh good, no more face like a slapped arse on MasterChef. And if you know who I'm talking about, then I rest my case.

Putting on tights for the first time in months. SUCH A PALAVER.

Bleedin' enormous (about 8 cm long) dragonfly on the echinops. I mean LOOK AT THOSE LEGS. It looks like a Doctor Who monster 😱

The BBC are again reporting someone who is no longer an MP, has no official position and is effectively a private citizen with little importance, as having 'defected' to Reform.

This is rather lovely and came close to causing unexpected eye leakage. (Look, I'm tired, OK?)

This really is a good read - highly recommended.

I've started a new book this morning and within the first few pages the author has written slither when she meant sliver and now I don't know if I can enjoy the rest of it.

Tár is on BBC2 tonight and I see the Radio Times has billed it as a comedy drama. Well yes there are a couple of funny moments but....really??

My android phone updated overnight and now the notification dot is pale yellow. It looks like all my apps have got pimples. Yuk.

No mention in this BBC article of Nick Thomas-Symonds' age. I'm hoping he's 97.

I could post telling you not to keep telling other Bluesky users what they can or cannot post, but I am aware of the hypocrisy of that, so I will just unfollow you instead.

Blimey - the plaintiff sounds an absolute nightmare. Good luck to her with even getting as far as interview in future if prospective employers read this 😱

Today's pressing Bluesky question: why do people even care how other people do their washing up?

Having deliberately left X more than two years ago I might never see what's going on there if it weren't for the diligent souls screenshotting and posting here. Thank goodness for them, eh?

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And so it begins.... first layer being printed this morning.

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

Lots of tips on Bluesky this morning about avoiding seeing unwelcome and distressing content. I've always found a really good way is to not follow the sort of idiot who posts videos of people dying.