Jumping on the ‘how old are you’ thing - I can’t see this (a massive bunch of parsley and chives with some lemon juice and zest whizzed up and reduced down to this!) without immediately thinking of this… I have clearly alchemised me some Green…

Following last post, this popped into my head (as it does every so often - clearly made an impression!). If you are Bertha-era tv years old, take five mins and enjoy. There are some absolutely delightful details and moments… x youtu.be/p_RoSQRIuH4?...

Any bits of not-terrible news are worth a share?!

UK peeps and anyone with a decent VPN looking for respite from the grim news cycle should be advised that BBC Sounds have a splendid Radio documentary about the making of The Muppet Show. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Worth saying out loud: Foreign mass murdering criminals like Trump and Netanyahu are given state visits and welcomed with open arms while British citizens are jailed and criminalised for holding up placards protesting against genocide.

Between neighbours’ houses, a snapshot of the hills today. I don’t take it for granted… ❄️

Phoebs and I made these when she was nearly 3, 19 years ago. They remain one of my most looked-forward to bits of Christmas every year. 🥰 Glad to see the back of the tree and all the rest of it tho 🙃 #bahhumbug

View at bins o’clock.

Watched a few eps of The New Years yesterday and enjoyed it very much in a ‘this is peak Mubi’ way. Gave Jay Kelly a whirl today (interrupted by kids and calls so spread across the day which given its length was no bad thing). Bit reckoning-of-the-soul-lite, but was entertained - some nice cameos.

Jim Flora really was a fabulous designer, huh www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

Swedish Chef pasty-making scenes :) Listening to my very random 2025 playlist - happy, happy ☺️

I love everything about this track. The video has strong 90s energy for me (not just Adrienne’s Paddington hat which isn’t really a Paddington hat but that’s what we called them 🤷‍♀️). Also that someone has written in the comments: ‘Big Thief is what gives me the courage to make art’. 💞✨🍊

Remembering one of our past festive creations. We had a lot of fun with this. 🤓😁

Rorschach Test River Severn… #alphabetchallenge #themesweek

My friend’s son took this pic of our hills the other morning (4am insomnia club 🙃). 💙✨

William Bronk

Had a little break from festive tunes (went hard at it today). Got a soft spot for a mandoline… youtu.be/YfPIMoYWN24?...

If you see this, share a redhead (or 3… 🙃)

Was presented with the choice of high school carol service (none of own children in it) and cinema - sold to me as “you know - it’s called something like ‘Wife with a Knife’.” Choices, choices… Opted for the latter and can say Die, My Love is absolutely brutal but Jennifer Lawrence is AMAZING.

Almost made it to 50 without ever having seen Die Hard 🙃 We really enjoyed it! Ridiculous. Got a dead leg from this one’s head in my lap for so long, but it was worth it x

Out front; out back… I took one, eldest the other. If it hadn’t been school run o’clock we could have fannied about and matched them up :)

deeply honored to be included in the Michigan City Review of Books today!! here’s one of the poems, hope you enjoy it & the other two too :)

Duel-cheffing occurring - me making roasted cauliflower soup; eldest baking chocolate courgette cake. We’re definitely getting our five a day today 🥬 😁 Guy Garvey playing this - really lovely track 💕

Could not have known jazz harp ‘we three kings’ was the missing ingredient this Friday, but as it turns out…

Picked eldest up from station and have been listening to this before we decorate our ludicrous £12.95 tree from B&M (very in keeping with Charlie Brown’s tree - absolutely wonky as…) It’s a lovely listen 😌

Moody skies over B&M…

and I think even more from Qobuz the-ear.net/news/qobuz-p...

I get it, Cucumber - we’re all finding it a horror show rn…

Picture of the staff who operate this Bluesky account…

Just tried to voice-search Korean film ‘Poetry’ on the tv, and immediately got electronic voice delivery of ‘I eat my peas with honey…’ Zut, ffs, alors… (Is this what you get for being pretentious too early of a Sunday morning…?!)

Weather-combat measures. ☔️ If you don’t like mushrooms (or cement mix) I am sorry. So much umami, I just grew a beard. 🧔🏻 (No ginger beard emoji tho - what?!)

Barnard’s Green post box delivering more yarn bomb action… ❄️ (Right in front of the gents’ loos - had to wait for someone to get out of shot - he seemed thrilled)

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Textbook cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon (1971)

There’s really nothing else like this. Love it immoderately. open.spotify.com/track/3cPtZw...

Spotify Wrapped for middle age people…?! Yeah well whatever 🙃 Less of a miserable f*cker than I thought… [Also informed I use this emoji the most: 🙃 I suspected as much… 🙃🙃🙃]

Have listened to the first record a fair bit, but today realised I might prefer the second? There’s some beautiful clarinet going down on the Shabaka Hutchings track… Nearly cleared my desk, too! 🙃😁

Lunchtime listening. #musicsky Having an admin day and tidying (allegedly…). Have put my glasses down somewhere… 🤔 🤓

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Another one… youtu.be/os66zYXaVYA?...

Also loved this! 🙌 💛

On this Black Friday, experiencing some frustration: two recent orders through small, independent companies - one sent me to Amazon to pay and to collate the order (I think Jeff took less of a cut this way, but 🤷‍♀️), and the other are using Amazon to deliver… 😭

Agreed - someone really *should* do a #musicchallenge for #christmassongnotchristmassong - #musicsky …? My contribution :)

An absolute all-time favourite 💫

4 hours of jukeboxing with 17yo after a hard/challenging/mostly good ultimately week for both, and feeling a-okay… (and have converted 17 to the merits of this bit of Joni…) youtu.be/JP1hEPRYBQs?...

Bore da! A chilly one but no frost yet 😊 Have a good day ☕️

Dear Mahmood/Labour, Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X. Yours The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK

Oh this.

Nothing about this is sophisticated. Pure joy tho 💫