My son put it best when he was a young kid: "Cats are great because you get happy every time you encounter them. You turn a corner, and there's a cat there, and it's like there's a cat, and that's great." I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.

Doing that thing where I can’t sleep. Then I think about how bad it is that I can’t sleep. Then I realise I need to be up in six/five/four….bugger.

Chasing the Sun. #forestpath #woodlandwalk #naturelovers #landscapehunter #sunlight #wintersun #mystical #atmospheric #treelove #forestbathing #naturetherapy #outdoorphotography #scenicview #smartphonephotography #photography

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

Happy #Caturday from MyDude and MooCow #catsky

Bless you, large cat, for thinking what I need after a coughing fit is a cat on my chest.

I’m in bed, I’ve brought up a glass of Baileys and a pint of water. I’m definitely definitely gonna cut back from tomorrow… Definitely

Little wander up the road to visit the locals

Day two of #dryjanuary There was Baileys left in the fridge!!! Not so much now.

Julian is convinced he can capture the gigantic bird on the telly

JANUARY 1st: anything is possible JANUARY 2nd: on Monday

Turn the wheels turn the time

This is completely genuine @silversnapples.bsky.social

Fesshole Live is on tour - tickets available for Leicester, Luton and Leeds. Plus, we’re going to Sweden (Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm) and running Anon Opin shows in Leicester. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

I’m thinking ALMOST dry January

Shoutout to all my fellow Y2K survivors

Start of a New Year. Brings more promise than many prior. Glad to be this age and in this position. If you’re struggling, keep going, I’m glad I did.

Tonight was a return to shower dancing, thanks to the thoughtful shower speaker, other half gifted me at Christmas. Yay for Erasure and Siouxsie Sioux

Ah yes. The end of December. Come, friends and let us behold the Daily Planner that will revolutionize my life, making me outwardly productive, inwardly peaceful and just generally a better person than the rest of you. No, honestly,THIS one is going to work. New Year. New me. Seriously.

I remember the excitement of buying the changing bag before they were born. A thing that made it real. I would be welcoming a small person into the world. I loved them all as soon as I knew they existed.

Sticking my fingers in my ears while chanting, "Fa la la I can't hear you!" until New Years

sometimes you just have to hold your cat up in front of a mirror and say “dats u” to remind them that they’re real

Watching a film I probably shouldn’t “Goodbye June” it’s beautiful and real. www.imdb.com/title/tt3576...

Baileys and some cheese and crackers, I am tempted to say “Gromit”.

Arms out, spiralling out of control into 2026, but making machine gun noises with my mouth.

I am sitting on my sofa, not quite sure why I’m up. Oh yeah, it’s that work thing isn’t it. Bugger.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Ok, I know I’m biased, but how handsome is this cat?

it’s purely coincidental that this paperweight looks like something with which one would use to hit someone else in the face

AAAAAHHHHHHH

This is the cosiest cat ever, when he’s not digging needles into my skin.

Remembering that this time of year can be really hard. Another year is ending and it can remind you of all the things you’ve lost, or all the things that made life difficult. Trying to ground myself in the now and enjoy the good stuff.

A list of five more ways to say “nobody asked you” from around the world… 5. Deal with your own cabbages (Italian) 4. Keep your own owl straight (Punjabi) 3. Go and wipe your own nose (Korean) 2. Why is this making your arse itch? (Finnish) 1. Unload your own donkey (Arabic)

Finally, a nice day for a walk, and to visit the local dignitaries

Is it mean to play noisy cat videos, just to see what my cat will do? I mean, it’s almost science.

Iggy Pop’s full name is Ignatius Lollipop.

I’ve started singing “Sweet Caroline” instead of “Sweet Child of Mine” and vice-versa in my head, and now you will too 🙂

In other news, the whisky advent calendar is fab

We are officially old, well I am. Me n other half had both decided that something had definitely NOT happened. Only to discover with a little research, that it had. What the actual….

Which words have given you happiness this year? I’d love to hear them. (And if you fancy some distraction over the holidays, do give my word game Two Words a try. twowords2.page.link/play)

In my teenage years I had a fling with a mate's divorced mum. It was great, she taught me a lot and I apparently satisfied her needs. Fast forward 40 years and I've reconnected with the mate who's invited me to his mum's 80th b'day party as she 'always spoke fondly of me'.

More of this energy in the news cycle thx

It’s a Pratchett kind of day

Cosy cats of the day, it’s almost like they know the most complementary backgrounds to snooze on

🎵 …couldn’t bescape if I bonted to 🎶

You'd think the thing in my house with the most cat hair on it would be my cat

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

This was pretty bloomin’ spectacular

At my new workplace I have already established that I am the shortest. Every time I sit at the front desk the colleague that follows me says “Ohmygod, why is this chair so high??”

I’m supposed to be moving this box. How am I going to be able do that now??