Ooh Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek have been added to this year’s @endoftheroadfestival.com lineup. I’ve wanted to see them for ages.

Just booked tickets to see Johnny Campbell next week. I think it is finally time to accept that I like folk music.

Who will buy my beautiful oboe? It’s a lovely oboe but I would really like it to be sold now. www.howarthlondon.com/product/howa...

60 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band make their TV bow on Blue Peter.

Right, that’s enough doomscrolling for now, time for lunch.

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙

George Harrison would have been 83 today. Here's a wonderful video of him being pushed around Friar Park in a pram by Nanny Neil Innes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ac3...

Feeling a little delicate this morning so cheering myself up by listening to lots of George Harrison

Trying to watch the curling whilst at my best friend’s birthday party. I’m not usually so invested in sport but the curling has caught me this year. 🥌

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

I‘m really enjoying Matthew C. Whitaker‘s album Songs for the Weary

OK, this is weird but I have to know. Does anyone remember a cute British comfort food restaurant in Manchester's Northern Quarter that served Mrs Kirkham's Cheese On Toast and, and here we come to the point, a dish named after Michael Palin. Mention in next book for info received.

“Sometimes we’re wild dogs, sometimes we’re full of bees.”

Watching the Biathlon and remembering how frustrating it was to play on the Commodore 64

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

Quite excited that I’ll actually be able to go to @supersonicfest.bsky.social this year as it’s not clashing with End of the Road

In case you missed it: 100+ bands just joined headliners Pulp, CMAT and Mac DeMarco on the #EOTR2026 lineup inc. Super Furry Animals, Kurt Vile, Fat Dog, Ty Segall, Lucinda Williams and Beverly Glenn-Copeland (with Elizabeth Copeland). Last remaining tickets: endoftheroadfestival.com/tickets/

To honour Jennie Lee’s legacy, Milton Keynes City Council has appointed sculptor Andy Edwards to create a new statue celebrating the visionary behind the 1966 White Paper that founded The Open University. Unveiling in 2026. 🔗 https://ow.ly/9Hip50Y7u3j #OUfamily #OpenUniversity

Just found out that the pub I’m going to in a few weeks was once owned by Paul Heaton, so I’m now going to have Caravan of Love stuck in my head for the next three days.

BBC News subtitles are on #TheTraitors which adds a real edge

was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos

Looking for something to do this weekend? Then try your hand at predicting what will happen in 2026. 50 questions - simply say how likely each is to occur, on a range of 0% (won't happen) to 100% (will definitely happen). Any question can be skipped. www.edrith.co.uk/p/2026-forec...

Fiona and Rachel attempt to write each other's name on the murder parchment. Stephen goes running to Claudia for reassurance that everything is going to be okay #TheTraitors

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Sorry kids, revolution’s off.

No #StileCup for me this year but I did find some lovely stiles today along the Tyne Trail

Christmas Day stroll along the Spay

New leather soled shoes on tiled floors are very slippery. In other news the floor of the kitchen floor is very clean.

Nice mooch round Inverness

I think I found the original source of the 67 meme

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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Yesterday the United Nations voted 153-1 on a resolution ensuring the safety and security of humanitarian workers and UN personnel across the globe. The only country voting against it? The United States.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

I’m really glad that I can run and I’m enjoying doing it but the routes where I live are so incredibly boring.

A great piece by @iandunt.bsky.social

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Enjoyable Real Ale Ramble starting in Llanwrtyd Wells today, might have even worn out Innes for once.

Wasn’t sure if I was going to go to End of the Road next year but Pulp mad son would be very upset to miss seeing them. Looking forward to seeing CMAT again, she was fantastic when I saw her at EOTR a few years ago. Can’t wait.

You deserve more … PULP! The band that inspired a generation are coming to EOTR for the first time, hot off the heels of their stunning 2025 LP More and the 30th anniversary year of Different Class. Joining them: country-glam powerhouse CMAT and MAC DeMARCO, who’ll bring his signature slacker charm.

The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.

When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located). www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...