I just don't believe him. The Orange Prince keeps contradicting himself, asking for help, saying he needs no help, threatens allies for help, tells the allies to f** off. He's won, he needs to bomb more, he'll win soon, someone else needs to protect the strait of Hormuz

I never really understood character sets and how important they were or how they worked until I saw Patrick's talk on it And, yeah, lots of nice pictures of dogs! Well worth m hour of your time.

I’m going to lose my race with Mother Nature - I’m trying to restore a totally out of control hedge but the leaf buds are bursting and it will soon be prime bird nesting territory. I think today I must stop.

A few months shy of 40 years ago Amanda and I went into this building and started our degrees- both Zoology + Something. We met within the week and have been friends since. Poor lady! So good to meet up and reminisce.

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

Hang on, didn't Trump say the war was "very complete" and "nearly complete" and that he did not need UK ships as it was over? Anf if Iran closed the strait he'd bomb them 50 times more than he already had. It's almost as if he's constantly lying or has no idea what's going on.

At last! All remaining hereditary peers in the UK House of Lords will go in May 92 men, mostly old, will no longer have a significant voice in our governance simply due to *who their parents were*, usually based on a forgotten deed by a long, long dead ancestor www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just spent 5 minutes telling a friend a story about when I met four nuns in an oringinal Austin Mini, about 1986. It sounds like a joke but it wasn't. And yet... For some reason, just the remembered image of four nuns in a tiny Austin Mini cracks me up. And I don't know why.

They just can’t resist, can they? #Caturday #catsofbluesky #cats

Dear oh dear oh dear. Deer! Visitor in the back garden

One day, this will be me. I never claimed to be a nice person!

Happy #Caturday! All four kittens playing with mum on the new cat gym I created #cats #catsofbluesky

I wonder how bloody stupid #FIFA feel now over that "peace" prize they gave to Trump.

Some people drink wine, go on the internet late at night, and buy canal boats, double-decker buses, or old fire engines. I drink wine, go on the internet, and buy battery-powered garden tools. And batteries. But only small ones.

The BBC comedy "Ghosts" is to come back as a film! It's odd how happy that makes me, the writers had previously said they had brought the program to a conclusion and it was not coming back. We have just finished re-watching it for, I think, the third time. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

It’s 17C, not raining, bright sunshine, and the cats are playing chase. Not #caturday but I might repost then. #cats #catsofbluesky

If it was a choice between voting for this bunch of lying, racist, dog-whistling, jingoistic grifts or Beelzebub, I’d be asking Mr B to talk more about his plans for buying souls. Is there a way to prevent these people sending me their pernicious tripe?

Happy #caturday. Mum & daughter sharing the sofa. The pink bit by Rosalind, head is my foot. She likes using it as a warm pillow.

Ohhhh, the orange wannabe dictator is going to be in a foul mood right now! I wonder what revenge he’ll try to take on the Republican-nominated judges who just clipped his wings? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

Who else remembers when you could buy a much better radio/tape/cd player for your car than the crap unit the manufacturer fitted. Only, as they became the #1 item for sh1th0les to steal, they then had detachable fronts, strange locks, or an exploding fake cassette as part of the unit.

I wonder if someone's Valentine's day plans did not go as intended!

Happy #caturday. It’s so sad how Rosalind has grown up to be so nervous around us and not want cuddles 🙄 Honestly, she has no concept of personal space

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Wine thoughts number 137. Isn't it about time for Boris Johnson to announce he's joined Reform? He must have another book out to promote soon.

Happy #Caturday, poor Rosalind looks so stressed

I keep seeing news items like this. 3 million pages. What's on these pages and who's looked at them? If you spent just 1 minute per page (not long!) for 8 solid hours a day that's... 17.1 years. I'm not commenting on the case, just the volume of apparent data. How much is repeated or not relevant?

To my great dismay, I have just learnt that, in the UK, you can't leave your estate to your pets. Though I think Mrs W would object anyway....

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university 1 Human genetics/eugenics 2 Animal mechanics 3 Computer programming (really poor!) 4 Neuroethology/Neurobiology 5 Biochemistry And I ended up being a computer programmer (sobs)

For the first time *ever*, when BlueSky dropped me in the Discover feed not the Follow feed - I actually followed a new person! Enough to say it involved cats. Or, more correctly, kittens.

@theotherdavidh.bsky.social I thought you would like this

Our first, early daffodils are out! A little later than the last couple of years though.

After 15 years using my pair if BenQ 22” monitors I finally decide to upgrade. A pair of Dell U2724D/E 27” monitors now grace my desk, and they fit the space perfectly. The tech has moved on in 15 years, they’re bigger, brighter, higher res, more ports… lovely

I sometimes wonder if I met Bill Watterson when I was a small child and had an influence on his career.

For this week's #caturday, this was Hera and her kittens (just 2 days old). It was her second litter but Hera looks a little shell-shocked!

After the particularly cold start to 2026 and a cock-up on organising the heating oil delivery, the #woodshed is looking a little empty. #shed

The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights

I can pinpoint the exact moment the UK went to the dogs and our society began to crumble. It wasn't a new PM, a specific law came in, or even a sporting tragedy. It was in 1998 when Opal Fruits become Starburst! 38 years of UK childhood thrown under the wheels of international commercialism!

Happy #caturday number 2 as I found a video of Rosalind playing on the cat gym her mum now bends. The fall at the end is pure Rosalind. The bare patch is from when she was neutered.

Happy #caturday. Here is Hera on the cat gym this evening. Yes, that platform is seriously sagging under her. To be fair, the cat gym was designed and constructed with her kittens in mind, when they were little. Not for an adult cat with a serious I test in food.

Some people are saying AI will transform business reporting - people will steer AI agents rather than design or build the reports The thing is, when I perf tuned these reports I'd often find they were giving wrong results, or not the data the designers thought Wil AI agents do better or worse? 1/2

We’ve had just enough snow to make everything look pretty

I missed this for #caturday but here is Rosalind attempting to be cute on the sofa between me & mrs W yesterday. It's the paw over the nose that does it.

Hera cat is fulfilling her feline Christmas duties and entertaining us chasing wrapping paper balls. Happy #catmas everyone!

Ohh, I do miss the days of 8.3 file names and messing about with autoexec.bat & config.sys, trying to get over 600K of free Low Mem.

There is a wonderful thing about being retired. When friends/loved ones need some time, ***you have time***. Maybe not Right That Second, but generally you do. It’s a benefit I never expected.

Happy #Caturday. These two are eyeing up their new climbing frame! It would be the death of them to try (or at least get them a good shouting-at), it’s actually a frame for a spectacular “circus big top” hat that Mrs W has spent days crafting.

Today's the day (in the UK, & many other places in the Western Hemisphere) when the sun sets the earliest. Yes! Not when the "shortest day" is (21st this year) Weird, huh? It's to do with how fast the earth goes around the sun, I did a blog on it years ago: mwidlake.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/t...

This would be my cats too...

Conference tradition for me. A nice cup of tea after a night of beer and socialising

SYM42 table number 2. I’ve got so much out of the whole Oracle community, it means a lot to me to still be a part of it