Burn in Hell.

Went to the gym, found new kettlebells, YES!! Now drinking coffee and listening to the radio with my book. #SaturdayMorning

RIP Jilly Cooper. I finally read Riders and Rivals this summer, and loved every page. Guess I’ll have to read them again now!

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I’ve got a ticket for the Black Sabbath ballet at Sadler’s Wells! YES!!

Happy birthday to @cynicalcylon.bsky.social !! I hope you’ve had a wonderful day!

I wonder how Elon is reacting to being named in the Epstein files. I’m sure he’s taking it well.

This also means boycotting the next Marvel flick? I’m in.

The Tate was excellent. I love Picasso…

Excellent episode! I now have to visit Sheffield…

Off to London…

Just been in the gym working out to Yungblud, ZZ Top and White Zombie for a proper cross-generational soundtrack.

Birthday weekend! Woo!

Thou shalt not let these disturbers of our harmony frighten you nor steal your peace. They feed off fear and hatred. Do not feed them.

I’ve found an instagram account which features Sweep singing popular songs, and it’s giving me lots of joy right now.

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The Prince Charles Cinema is showing Nosferatu - the 1922 original - with a live score on 31st October at 4.15pm. Anyone want to go with me? #invites

Booked a ticket for the Afternoon of Rock event in London in 8th November. Over 30s only. It’s going to be LIT.

Plans for birthday sorted. Hooray.

Life is not good. Taking a break.

It’s my birthday next week, and I’m doing nothing to celebrate it because I do not see the point.

I am really tired of hysteria. And I don’t mean the Def Leppard album.

Just completed online training in Fire Safety, and think that a 1970s PIF should be included.

BBC 2 broadcasting The Proms:The Planets and Star Wars. Favourite of the Holst suite? Neptune.

What a week. For me, that is. Not anything else.

PSA: Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future is on right now on Sky Arts. Enjoy!

Went to see Caught Stealing this afternoon - very enjoyable. First. Aaronofsky film I’ve walked out of smiling rather than wanting to get a bottle of Valium.

Spent a few hours in work today, stopped off at Lush on the way home. Got chatting to the sales assistant who had tattoos of the covers of In Utero and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I told her she had great taste…she told me she was 21. Music belongs to all, and I love it.

On Sunday I spent 25 minutes watching a film called Taxi. I was prepared to enjoy it as a silly buddy cop movie, but a parrot died and I switched off.

Got to speak to the wife of the gentleman who collapsed with a heart attack in the gym last week today. Good news - he’s out of ICU and in the cardiac ward. This has been in my head all week, and I’m really glad he’s recovering.

Cooking to this top tune…

Had a really bizarre dream last night where someone I’ve not seen or spoken to for 15 years made an appearance. I’m now wondering if this means I’m going to get an email in the near future, although there is no logic to this. Brrrr.

Yep.

At an exhibition of Jenny Saville paintings at the National Portrait Gallery, and this must be familiar to anyone who bought a Manic Street Preachers album in the late 2000s…

Episode 13 is out! A nuclear warm welcome to Dave and Ste from @scarredforlife.bsky.social. We discuss amazing songs by Nik Kershaw, Sting, Fishbone, Elton John and Kim Wilde... Listen, subscribe and engage. open.spotify.com/episode/6iyZ...

Real American Presidents vs. Trump What American Presidents worth the name would say today. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Last post has made me now think about a Krispy Kreme. Glazed raspberry. Best flavour IMHO.

A kestrel got trapped in the local shopping centre, and it was apparently revived with water and a Krispy Kreme. I am now wondering if Mr B ever wanted a Krispy Kreme….

Terence Stamp was a very fine actor. But for me he will always be the greatest supervillain on celluloid. RIP General Zod.

Got to the gym this morning to find a gym buddy of mine flat on the floor surrounded by paramedics. Horrific situation, but paramedics are incredible people. Hope he’s going to be all right.

This heat is annoying. I’d have liked to do some gardening and go for a walk - temperature drops tomorrow (hopefully!) so maybe this weekend…

I went to Alaska in 2011. Amazing place - stunning landscapes, incredible wildlife (I saw a grizzly!) strong, wonderful people. Protests in Anchorage do not surprise me at all.

Went to bed at 10pm last night, intending to read for 20 minutes. At 11.50pm I’d finished my book and thought I should go to sleep. I haven’t done that for years.

Train back to London was on time, got downstairs at Paddington and a Lizzie Line train for my destination was just coming in. Travel Gods are merciful today!

Heh. I’ve lived in London for 14 years, never had any issues. I lived in Exeter for 3 years in the early 2000s and got followed twice, plus two friends of mine were nearly mugged.

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I present the cartoon in today’s The Times, by Peter Brooks…

This weeks @scarredforlife.bsky.social podcast guest has mentioned Round The Twist - that brilliant 90s Aussie series that. was Tales Of The Unexpected for kids. Yes!! Along with Grange Hill it was appointment viewing. Is it on YouTube?!

Trump has no way out of the Epstein problem; he can either continue to stonewall, which makes him look guilty, or he can release everything, which may make him look even guiltier. https://trib.al/7K8Q9eZ

Holiday reading.