Finished Game of Thrones on DVD. Saturday night is now Sopranos Night 😀

Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s...

Irish fashion designer Paul Costelloe dies aged 80 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From Amanda Seyfried To Jacob Elordi, The 8 Performances You Need To See Before Awards Season www.vogue.co.uk/article/best...

Miss Mexico stuns as Miss Universe 2025.

St. Oswald’s Church at Grasmere in the Lake District. The church and west tower are mostly 14th century in date. Perhaps not the prettiest church, but still medieval! 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StOswalds #Grasmere #LakeDistrict

67 today! Happy birthday, Jamie Lee Curtis 🥳

30 years ago today, ‘TOY STORY’ released in theaters.

Coffee Addict - Chap 20 - Jaimie's House www.mendera-storm.co.uk/the-blog/283...

‘I prepared for the role by playing in my room’: the making of Toy Story as it turns 30 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

'Halo hair' is viral hairstyle that's everywhere this winter - 9 inspo pics of the trending look www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/beauty-ha...

In the late 18th century, men were digging a drain at the edge of the lake of Loughnashade in the shadow of Emain Macha, Navan Fort, in County Armagh. They made a truly spectacular discovery, four enormous sheet bronze horns or trumpets, dating to around 100 BC, along with human remains.

It would have been artist Martin Aitchison’s birthday this week (b.1919 - d. 2016) Here are some of his books for Ladybird

Stephen Schwartz says he and Winnie Holzman are developing a new ‘WICKED’ project. It wouldn’t be a sequel to Glinda and Elphaba’s story but instead a new idea that “expands Oz in a new direction” (Source: theankler.com/p/more-oz-wi...)

Frilly underpants, always a crowd-pleaser.

‘Toy Story’ was released 30 years ago today.

‘WICKED: FOR GOOD’, starring Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande, debuts with an A on CinemaScore. Read our review: bit.ly/DFGood

On this day 22nd November 1859 Cecil Sharp, founder of the English folk-song revival was born. (Here he’s pictured overhearing a gardener singing) Artist: Martin Aitchison

The ‘dresser’ from the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #SkaraBrae #Neolithic #Orkney

An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

I’m not saying I’m tired but it just took me five minutes to work out why the door wouldn’t open. Spoiler alert: you need to unlock it.

‘South Park’ creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s new musical comedy movie, produced by Kendrick Lamar, has been delayed indefinitely “It’s true – we’re moving (again). We’re working hard at finishing the movie”

A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

I'm hoping to get the first draft of the Christmas short story finished today.

Coffee Addict - Chap 20 - Jaimie's House www.mendera-storm.co.uk/the-blog/283...

1987 Laverda OR 600 Atlas #ClassicMotorcycles #Motorcycle

1974 Honda XL250 Motosport #ClassicMotorcycles #Motorcycle

1972 Ossa 250 Explorer #ClassicMotorcycles #Motorcycle

Superman copy found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Real men have shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Coffee??

And......................Somewhere warmer

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.” ― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Meanwhile...............In Norway

More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

The curious case of why Poundland is struggling during a cost-of-living crisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tonight North London will officially be fuc**ng cold 😀😀 1 degree if we're lucky.

Wheeeeeee........It's Friday!

The 15th century font from All Saints’ Church at Old Buckenham in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #OldBuckenham #Norfolk

Detail from the ‘Monks Stone’. Possibly part of a shrine panel, the stone dates to C8th or C9th and was found by grave diggers in 1943 at St Laurence's Kirk at Papil in West Burra, Shetland. Now part of the collections at Shetland Museum & Archives. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday

I’m officially no longer a young columnist. Watch out for my new era in the British commentariat with pieces including, “why house prices are very reasonable, actually” and “keep your hands off my pension.”

There are thousands of aligned holes in Peru. Archaeologists now think they know who created them edition.cnn.com/2025/11/21/s...

I’m Calling It: ’90s Velvet Trousers Are About To Be Everywhere This Winter www.vogue.co.uk/article/velv...

Coffee Addict - Chapter 20 – Jaimie’s House Word count 6,008 Two huge wolf creatures attack Jaimie’s house, while Teresa and Lidia are there…….. Enjoy Ed ~ November 2025 www.mendera-storm.co.uk/coffee-addic...

Meet the new Miss Universe, Fatima Bosch Fernández: 3 controversial things that impacted her pageant win www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

Ariana Grande shares on her Instagram Stories that she tested positive for COVID.

Happy 60th birthday to the iconic Björk.

Happy 40th birthday to the talented Carly Rae Jepsen.

A Roman glass funerary urn that was found during excavations in the Botchergate area of Carlisle. Dating to the 1st century AD, the urn can be viewed in Carlisle Cathedral’s treasury. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #CarlisleCathedral