Jubilant Iraqi football fan on their radio , can Iraqis even get visas for the US? #BoycottTheWorldCup

As well as 👇🏻 the best film I'll never watch again "Blue Velvet" I'm happy to let it fade into a half remembered fever dream

If anyone wants 30 s of calm. Malham Cove and a babbling brook

Although having watched "Persepolis" the other night one of the themes is how weird Austrians are

Yes it's a mistranslation in the early gospels Jesus, was actually crucified with two fat rascals

We have an entire field/meadow of them just down the lane . It's lovely to see but not very photographic just a field of tiny yellow dots

Tiny pots of ice cream with tiny spoons and an indifferent G&T it's the law

Mate, come on. Of *course* she still believes in unicorns

The Lizard and Lisburn king(s)

This has an Israeli tactic/ collective punishment / war crime since the establishment of their state .

"Fair Galathilion has flowered once more". I'm ridiculously pleased to have kept this lovely thing alive over the last few yrs. Container trees are tricky & my yard is blustery in winter & hot in the summer. But a bigger tub, some organic feed & regular bowls of waste water have kept it blooming.

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is running a free course on the Holodomor and asked me to share it to help reach people who might be interested www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...

"The feeling induced by kitsch must be a kind the multitudes can share. It must derive from the basic images people have engraved in their memories: the ungrateful daughter, the neglected father, children running on the grass, the motherland betrayed, first love" -- Kundera on totalitarian kitsch

The Arran Brotherhood

Having to visit the White House almost makes me feel sorry for the King. I imagine it'll be a grim old affair with an addled rambling speech from DT (which will be randomly offensive) tortuous small talk with the dazed first lady . Only to arrive home only to find that DT has called us all pricks.

Our local Persian/Iranian restaurant

Seeing folk discussing "progressive" films, I am interested in examples of mainstream successful western films that aren't at least humanist in tone. I can't think of a "mission" film where for example a martinet is successful in completing the mission whilst imposing Draconian discipline.

Wigtwizzle!

This is such sad news. I only met Glen Baxter once, at a literary festival in Montpellier. (He was hugely popular in France.) I can only say he was one of the funniest, warmest, most charming geniuses I've ever met.

They are playing the James Blake songs where he seems to sing "why don't we make some dinner?" I suspect it's something else he doesn't seem like "a nice piece of grilled gammon" sort of guy #6music

Ha @agittner.bsky.social was annoyed by this too

Must admit as a regular tall visitor to LDN I welcomed the leg room on the upper deck of these buses, I hope any replacements are equally capacious. I do think losing the platform on LDN buses was a shame it was so handy to get off outside "your "shop on Oxford st rather than 300 yards further on

Think it's going to hellish for anything involving discretionary spending , noticed inflation influcencing my planning and spending especially on impulse things like a quick pint or coffee .

It's Monday! as Shaun Ryder said "Put on your Reeboks man And go play fucking tennis"

Watching a music documentary, funny how marked up contact sheets have become part of our visual language.

#NowListening whereas this has a great cover and is a great record as well.

Listening to this one of my favourite needle drop soundtracks . As always I deeply apologise for the LP sleeve . It's truly ropey especially given the beauty and sultry hotness of both of the leads

Today’s Palm Sunday procession to St Martin-in-the-Fields across Trafalgar Square marked the beginning of Holy Week, the most important time in the Christian calendar.

Frankie Valley’s brother.

This week in @thetimes.com I discuss what makes a perfect pub atmosphere and why some pubs get it wrong. Meanwhile in the comments, some bloke reads this and decides I only go to the pub for one pint once a month and expect pubs to survive on that. Yay! (paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

I love the ITV Holmes but also love radio adaptations, which do have the advantage of avoiding what I call "stray milk churn" set dressing and excessive smoke machines. June Whitfield is v good as Jane Marple, plenty of sly whit and faux innocence www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is my dad's wooden toy horse and jockey, it's probably from the 1930-40's. It's a slightly scary clockwork one, the mechanism says "Foreign" on it, which probably means German, so it might have been a present from that side of our family.

#GardenersWorld in a world of "viral" influencers briefly famous for spouting vacuities, I'm deeply heartened by the secret daffodil grower, letting her beautiful tiny flowers speak for themselves #bloomscrolling

I didn't know what time it *is*, so I made some Welsh cakes #baking 🍽️

Love the new Saturday Night ITV game show "Guess which accent Gillian Anderson will use in the next advert".

"when contacted Mr Beevor's publicist wouldn't confirm if his next book would be a history of controversial depression era criminal "Ma Baker ""

Boy-lesque: (faded glamour outside the house clearance shop) March 2026 S.Yorks

You're protesting in the wrong way !

...soon here in the UK we may/will need to do the same. As a father of three sons, one of whom works in an industry that is already undercontract to the DoD, it is a worry. And I do not believe that society is prepared or preparing (yet?) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love the new Saturday Night ITV game show "Guess which accent Gillian Anderson will use in the next advert".

Oh lovely an "ample parking" postcard, one of my fave niche card genres

Why've they not called it a gherkin jerkin? Philistines.

Oh and Ryan Gosling has a red space suit and as we know red space suits are the coolest space suits

Of course at the cinema last night the endless adverts for the Navy take on a different feel if the cheery Scousers and Geordies aren't escaping their roots to play volleyball in Bali but are strafing boats in the straits of Hormuz . "Born in Barrow, Buried in Bahrain"

I'm not one for denying pleasure but I think it's weird that Hot Cross Buns are the focus of so much brand extension and mucking around, as the base bun is hardly worth the bother. They are pleasing toasted and buttered but fleeting and utilitarian. Also a fancy HCB stops being a HCB.

Went to see #ProjectHailMary last night it's a wonderful big hearted spectacle, proper sci-fi with excellent ships and design but also a thoughtful and moving central performance #filmsky

Slept in my Cud t-shirt , I lay on my back and you stamped on my face

Getting ready for tomorrow!!

Yep our town is 2-3 generations on from heavy industry (if you don't count french fancies and mince pies) we are surrounded by logistics hubs , call centres and other services industries we need new ways of looking at work and how we want to live .