Trump can just fu*k off and do one. The man is a semi senile kleptocratic cretin, and one day soon he will be a nobody, and hopefully a life prisoner.

So the fat, thick old orange goblin isn't satisfied with being filthy rich, amoral, president, but has to pressure FIFA to give him a medal? What a sad f**k.

Bluesky is becoming too much about 'me' and too little about 'us'. Agree?

There is stupid and there is Trump. There is greedy and venal and there is Trump. There is nasty and there is Trump.

Every week for the past two years I've made a cake for the Rosevale miners. Last week I made them speculaass biscuits for a change and to give me a break. I was thinking about tweaked mince pies this week, but I suspect that the lads will be disappointed. Should I give in and make them a cake?

Oops. It seems that the Rosevale deep Adit team dug into a backfilled stope in shit ground, which collapsed spectacularly. We now need to do some ground reinforcement before we can clear this mess and progress onwards. Still better down now than were we are metres beyond it, or were squashed by it.

Like old miners we constantly read the ground as we dig out our deep Adit. We don't want to get buried either. Suspicious about a timbered section that was moving we removed a trench prop. A minute later, tons of backfill crashed down leaving twisted wood and tons of muck. Better down than deadly.

So maybe income tax up and employee's NI down in the budget? Hmmm. When you're on a pension you don't pay NI anymore, but you are liable for income tax. That'll go down well with older people then. It's been suggested that there's no point in increasing higher rate IT (dodged). Property tax then?

Just read, sorry devoured, Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear - her book about her relationship with Newlyn and its fishermen. Best insight into what it's like to be Cornish I've read in ages. Excellent writing.

Charlie Kirk = becoming Horst Wessell? By the gun you live. By the gun you die dude.

A cabinet of terrified sycophants appears to surround DT in Washington. How insecure is this thick sap? Very by the looks of it. And these creeps need to go away and reflect on the degree to which they have abased themselves so embarrassingly.

If Donald Trump really wants the Nobel peace prize perhaps he could consider enacting Draconian gun laws in the USA. No-one but law enforcement officers, the military and registered hunters should be allowed to carry a weapon. No chance of that is there?

Red flag sprayers. We're not racist. It's patriotic. Oh yeah? Why not ask some of the large number of people who don't agree with you how they feel? Or minority groups in this country?

Was there ever, in your experience, such an utterly thick and venal president of the united states as the present incumbent? I thought Reagan was dumb as a plank, but Trump out Reagans him massively. He can barely string a sentence together, and what he says rarely makes any sense at all. Nasty too

How did we get to this, with Netenyahu and Putin killing tens of thousands of people at will and world leaders unable or unwilling to stop them? Meanwhile oil producers and processors burn the planet and poison the oceans for financial gain. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

Is there a parallel planet I can go to where people aren't obsessed by hair, nails, lip and arse fillers, pink things, expensive shoes, football etc and where poor kids blown up by tank shells fired by sociopaths are more important? Cos I want to live there and not here.

Rockets, tanks, fighter and bomber jets, assault rifles, grenade launchers and mortars versus starving civilians. How is that in any way a just war?

Epping (Effing) Forest's councillors and residents should hang their heads in shame, having promoted casual racism and fuelled violent protests against migrants including those fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries. The dimbos protesting have no idea what these people have undergone.

D j trump.surely the most politically, socially and economically illiterate occupant of the white house. And illiterate. The man can barely string a comprehensible sentence together. The leader of the free world? No.

Dry fried organic salmon with basil, green olives and fresh strawberries. A bit of a fridge clear but it ended up being a rather interesting combination. What's the oddest mix up you've ever put together and did it work or was it a disaster?

Well it seems we are coming up to replacement car time. Looking online I'm astounded how ugly and expensive most second hand modern cars are. Can't go electric as we have on street parking on the other side of the road from the house (even if we could afford a v basic electric car). A banger then.

No photo from Rosevale mine this week as I was fully occupied on winch duty as the lads were going flat out. We're through the timbered section (at last) and the adit seems to be turning direction into better ground (maybe?). Photos next week perhaps?

For the sycamore gap tree fellers could I suggest that the judge should have imposed three days in the stocks. Public embarrassment, a lot of rotten eggs and fruit thrown at them seems to me more appropriate than what they were given today. They need to understand how stupid they were.

The IDF and Netanyahu are now totally out of control. They cannot continue killing gazans and stealing land from Palestinians. This must stop now.

An update from Rosevale Mine deep Adit dig. We are finally through the old stope (see photo of steel cage for how much support we have had to build) but the way ahead is through more horrible ground if the amount of timbering the old men felt it necessary to install.

It's a blue sky day. Put a load of washing on. 40 mins later it's raining. It's a clear day today. I need to water my and my neighbours veg beds. As I'm putting the hose away just now it starts to rain. It's a gift!

So Lisa Nandy goes on a strop about people expressing opinions she doesn't like. But quite a lot of us do agree broadly with the idea that the IDF are out of control and feel licensed to kill Palestinians - men women and children - because of their ethnicity. We must be allowed to object surely.

Just re-listened to an R4 article about how the re-emergence of the bullet bra is a feminist statement. Now I'm a bloke. It's not anything of the sort IMHO. It's a means of yet again making women into sex objects for the male gaze. In this instance women are complicit in embracing it. Yadda Yadda.

Spent a delightful hour in Penzance on El Galeon Andalucia, a loving replica of the formerly ubiquitous merchantmen which sailed the seven seas for centuries. The ticketing system appeared to have devolved into anything goes, but the crew were ultra friendly and I thoroughly recommend it!

Glass of beer. Fruit flies. Suicidal alcoholics. I don't want little lumps in my beer, especially if they are drowned fruit flies. Seems to be the thing this time of the year unfortunately.

Although I didn't find any ancient tin slag on my walk today, it wasn't entirely wasted, as I did spot this sweet little bladelet (20p coin for scale) amongst a scatter of debitage on a site which is usually productive, but which hasn't been ploughed in a decade.

Just heard a cuckoo on the cliffs at Botallack, and a little later in my garden. A bit late in the year, surely? At Zennor they're around mid April.

No photos this week from Rosevale, as we were all a bit busy. The final side protection was installed in the safety cage, then we took down the temporary wood block wall. The way ahead looks very unstable, and will be challenging to dig and support unfortunately. Progress will be very slow.

Don loves Elon Elon loves Don Elon hates Don Don hates Elon It's so exciting (not).

Dear @cornwallcouncil.bsky.social. you have put up 20mph signs down the road past my house in Botallack. No one takes the slightest notice of them. Can you lend me a speed gun or alternatively can you police your speed restrictions? Otherwise what is the point of the signs?

Off for a walk today, but an archaeologist is always an archaeologist, and so I came back with this rather crappy discoidal scraper. We look down, not up most of the time, you see, particularly where there's bare ground available to walk over. The scraper is rather better than it looks in this photo

A much walked over and rather muddy bit of Rosevale. One of those moments when you remember to look down and not just photograph the obvious things.

Good progress on the safety cage at Rosevale today, though welding fumes drove us out at one point. Not much to photograph at the working end, so here's a photo tak n underneath the main stope looking outbye past the 100 foot winze. The atmosphere is diluted welding fumes!

The may blossom this year is just stunning. The Foage Valley at Zennor is a sea of white at the moment, on a par with Japanese cherry blossom, and well worth a look soon before it disappears.

Cafe? Cage!

Progress in Rosevale Deep Adit, Zennor. Ted seen here digging the footing for the next steel leg for the cafe that should protect us if the rock above collapses. Once this and its partner are in we can start to take down the temporary wood block wall and move forward into terr incognita.

Well there you go. The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum. Reform have lots of councillors nationally as of today. You voted for Brexit. You voted for these idiots. Own it and live with the results you stupid people. FFS grow up.

Saw a black kite over Botallack today. Very exciting. Apparently there are a few around at the moment, but that's the first I've ever seen.

Just finished Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet. Actually just spent two days solid devouring it. A lovely piece of writing that had me hooked throughout. Highly recommended, though some sections are emotionally hard going, be warned.

Jo's little stone garden Buddha must have been feeling the cold over the winter, as I see that he's acquired a moss jumper.

One day Donald Trump will be dead. Before that he will be universally disgraced. I'm staying alive for one or both of those days.

@theguardian.com Alexine Anatole's king prawn with rhubarb and ginger sambol (Saturday feast) is a zinger. We didn't have any pak Choi, but fresh rainbow chard proved to be a good substitute. Personally I'd reduce the fish sauce a bit and up the rhubarb in the sambol a fair bit. Lovely stuff.

Hooray. I just managed to finish Easter Saturday's guardian cryptic crossword, which was a complete brain buster. Sometimes those fiendish ones can take weeks, or just never get finished.

Best mate for years, ace guitarist, bike guru, John Smith with his and Kate's Ducatis, back in the late 1970s when the sun shone all the time, we were young and hadn't heard of Trump and Musk.

At the Tinners in Zennor yesterday. We were the only locals apart from ziggy and his partner. Noisy young Londoners prevailed.