Caught up with the @backlisted.bsky.social Christmas episode on Asterix and found I've been pronouncing Toutatis wrongly in my head for 40 years

Of course when Shakespeare was off till the 5th January with a house full of chocolate and cheese he wrote King Lear

It's giving district line

We are at York City v Boston, 1-0 at HT and pretty cold 🥶

Destroyed the family at Marshmallow Madness in a manner so convincing that I might try and go professional

Don't forget

Opening of James Thurber's The 13 Clocks. Not a Christmas book but enormous fun to read on a dark winter evening

Happy to report I will be spending Christmas day with a dog called Marley

I have eaten the holy infant that was in the manger and which you were probably saving from Herod Forgive me he was delicious so tender and so mild

I have mulled the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast

Bloody hell what a goal from Morocco in the African Nations Cup

Muntjac in the garden

Up in Suffolk for my nieces 18th birthday and caught this festive tractor parade (let this loop 100 times for a good approximation of the whole thing)

Finished work for the year. Then went out and walked straight into a full length glass window at a nearby cafe. I'm ok though, I bounced off. But it was quite a surprise

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social any chance of a Buddo, I finish at 4 and am then done for the year

Custardy beer churned out, tasted pleasant (6,2,4,5)

Was in a Waterstones earlier today and it looked to me like they are already selling a few greeting cards created by AI

Skip to about 8m30s in this video to see Kingsley Amis demonstrate the 'sex life in ancient Rome' face, as mentioned in Lucky Jim youtu.be/7JeTMN2q0D4?...

Cheese issues. I'm taking this as code that the farmers have been on le acide bruin

Rewatched The Holdovers and it is maybe the best movie about a talented young history student avoiding military school since Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Taverns measureless to man: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, what else?

A little Christmas collage for you

Maybe I could collect the penguin Simenons but each one with a different design

Old MacDonald had a theremin eeeeeEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo

Pacific Rim but it turns out the human inside the Jaeger is being controlled by a funny little rat hiding under his hat, and then it turns out that the rats brain is riddled with the real hero of the movie: toxoplasma gondii

One of the great bird noises youtu.be/bKsNhYVr5bg?...

Thought it might be fun to have a TV series about Robert Herrick marching about town with a perpetual boner and dashing off poems, and then I thought you'd probably cast Matt Berry, and then I realised you're just making Toast of London again

Trump once drew Norwich out of the hat in the Rumbelows cup draw. FACT

I need one good fun question on the theme of birds for a work xmas quiz. Give me your feathered poser yearning to be heard

awwww YESSS \o/ it's time for my very favouritest page of A Cloud A Day

Boycotting all the shops that have snowflakes with eight-fold symmetry stuck to their windows

Question: where exactly are this guy's feet?

Breaking the glass on this

My brother has new cats. This is Nero

Let's have a film where a Terminator tries to kill Emily Dickinson and gets absolutely worked over

@brianphillips.bsky.social any predictions for the ashes? #poppingcrease

Ploughed straight through vol III of On The Calculation of Volume, and now my head is reeling (again).

Looking out of the window and seeing the first snow of winter always makes me put this on youtu.be/8l9Lr9loHG4?...

easing into the week and then hearing the latest brainwave from the government youtu.be/75B_PCN0USE?...

Quite liked Edgar Wright's go at The Running Man, and spotting some familiar locations like the steps up to Wembley tube station

mf looks like gandalf the white BBC News - New photo released for King's 77th birthday www.bbc.com/news/article...

Post an image that will always make you laugh

Les briques, c'est chic

Next step: bears BBC News - Atlantic salmon in stretch of Derbyshire river 'extraordinary' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My take on Bond would be yet another remake of Casino Royale but set in the Crucible theatre in Sheffield and replacing the high stakes baccarat with the world snooker championship.

When Harvey met Szalay

Might have to wait for AMOC collapse before I can wear my lovely new chunky jumper

There is this, in Suffolk