(By emielscartoons on IG)

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Happy daffs #TinyJoys

This is lovely 🎼

Remember when America was so desperate not to elect a woman that they elected Donald Trump

Spent the day in LGI with Ch3 (nothing life-threatening thank goodness) and there is a cracking view from the lifts. #Leeds #Sunset Also the #NHS staff are fucking ace

Rehearsing all the non-opera pieces tonight, starting with #Beethoven and followed by some #Faure And the marvellous @judeabb.bsky.social has designed our concert flyers

Tonight’s rehearsal was in the church where tomorrow’s concert is. It was Not Warm. So tonight I have been Horn Compo 📯🥶

Breaking news: BBC Royal Correspondent shocked at having to report on some real news for a change.

Dammit I was doing so well at working today, only popped on here for a quick snoop while a thing was loading. Been cackling for the last 20-odd minutes. I’ll have a short lunch break to catch up On WORK to catch up on work

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone

Reminded me about this (not OF this, because the Mardi Gras costume is awesome)

Hello @jamesbluecat.bsky.social you’re in the window at the White Rose Waterstones and you’ve got your own little display inside too 🙂

Cat decided to launch herself from the windowledge to my desk. Hadn’t factored in the plate next to my phone. Ch4 had to clean & plaster the claw marks on the back of my left arm because I can’t see them. Luckily it’s not school run time yet so the neighbours’ kids didn’t hear the Language 🤬 #cat

Why are Tuesdays 87 hours long 😩 #timewarp #officeday

Got major mum-points in the bag today. Drove 1h45m to Tamworth so Ch4 could get their tattoo touched up. Less than half an hour later, drive 1h45 mins home again.

Snowball Fighting should be a winter Olympic sport.

I have a to-do list for work today. I’m supposed to finish at 4. However I’ve been quite distracted this morning (offspring, snowboarding on the iPlayer, general scattiness) so I’ll be finishing when I’ve done. Hopefully not too long after 4…

Hello! We’re busy rehearsing for our next concert on Sunday 22nd March at 3pm - Sunnybank Mills in Farsley (where they film #SewingBee) - it’s a lovely mixture of pieces 🎼🎵🎶 Beethoven - Overture: Fidelio Fauré - Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande Mascagni - Zanetto Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance

Watching the new series of #SchoolSpirits with a glass of wine & a snoozing cat next to me

Supermarket white bread, toasted & lightly buttered; 3 pork chipolatas (the good ones), split lengthways; 2 or 3 rashers of smoked bacon, grilled to slightly crozzled; one poached or fried egg; brown sauce. Ignore cholesterol levels.

New #crochet while I watch* predictable crime procedural on the telly *more like listen to, as background noise

Finished another blanket #crochet

Wfh today. Approximate number of times I have removed the cat from my desk: 273683852748 Number of fucks she gives: 0

🐤 🐤 "quack" 🐤 🐤

TRUMP: I invented electricity. did it one day, turned on a lamp and a scientist gasped and said wow how did you do that and I said I just flicked a switch and he started crying and saying "sir you've just saved Africa from ebola" BBC NEWS: a sober reflection on healthcare from the President

Share a bird pic you took

Living dangerously* right now *eating spaghetti carbonara while wearing a black top, and I have to go back out again later

Dear 🇺🇸 Can you please do the necessary ? Like now ? Yours The Rest of the World especially (but not limited to) Ukraine Venezuela Columbia Mexico Greenland The EU The UK Oh fuck it - it’s just everyone isn’t it ?

For fucks sake #mood

Getting this in just in time, taken before I went out earlier. Tasha fast asleep on the armchair #Caturday #ProofOfCat

What an absolute banger of a piece of music #Firebird Played my 14 bars and listened to the rest of it with great pleasure (grinning my head off when the percussion & brass let loose)

Today’s entertainment, with a slight change from the usual hardware #WagnerTuba #catastrophone #Stravinsky

This post and the replies is fab

If, like me, you are in need of an effective, cheap and quick mind-body-heart reset along the lines of "lalalala eVeRyTHiNg iS fiNe," may I recommend this thread

Read this thread out at work for a bit of light relief 😂 Gasps of horror and laughter from my colleagues as I went through, we needed this #TinyJoys

🧵Spotted While in Golden Bay in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (60s?), with silver hair in a gloriously chaotic bun is walking down the street singing George Michael's "Freedom! '90". Grinning as a passing stranger (40s?) joins in the chorus with her. (1)

In short, the phrase "child pornography" is not fine, and given one objection to the preferred "child sex abuse material" (CSAM) is "people don't know that phrase", then perhaps we should make a point of using it so that we all do become familiar with it.

This evening I am tidying up Christmas booze & continuing my CSI binge watch

Avoiding the news so I’ve put #Mahler 6 on (need to familiarise myself, I’m playing it in March) and also appreciating these tulips left by Ch2 when she went back to uni #TinyJoys

Deeply fucking annoyed that I appear to be getting yet another cold. So I’m having a medicinal hot chocolate.

They asked the Pharaoh, "What made you a tyrant?" He said, "No one stopped me." -- Egyptian proverb

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

Happy New Year! 🎆🎇🎆

My new #tattoo - a tiny star on my left little toe. Ch4’s new tattoo - this epic #octopus

Sat in a tattoo parlour in Tamworth while Ch4 gets an octopus tattooed on their arm (it looks fucking amazing, I’m a bit jealous) - I’m getting a tiny star tattooed on my toe when the main event is done.

It’s the 32nd anniversary today of one of the greatest chase sequences in the whole history of the motion picture, which means it’s also the anniversary of the single greatest sound effect 🧵👇

#BoxingDay cheese has been deployed. Currently enjoying an absolutely reeking truffle-infused Brie 😋