🎶 Somewhere over the rainbow, weigh a pie 🎶 #NotThatOldChestnutAgain

It's easy to forget how long YouTube has been around (20+ years) until you see a "15 years ago" timestamp on a YT video's page. How did we live without it? I can listen to almost any piece of music from almost any era. Maybe you can do that on Spotify, I don't know (no Spotify account), but do

But no link (that I could see) to any actual Proms 2026 page. Home page, calendar, list of composers. Nuthin. Great job BBC. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You'll never guess what. Yep. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioxO...

Still raining by the way. Goodnight, and may whatever you want to go with you, go with you.

I'm becoming convinced that some kind of sprite or demon has moved into my tumble dryer. This morning I did laundry. Everything went into the dryer the right way round. Three t-shirts out of four came out inside-out. So did a pillowcase. Other things did too but I won't be uncouth by mentioning

Steve Race is a Square!

Just in time for the morning rush hour.

"After 61 minutes, Nottingham Forest are yet to register a shot on target. They have an xG of 0.58." What the bloody buggery bollocks does that mean? #TooManyDamnStatistics

Phew, what a night! No, not like that. A night of broken sleep and several dreams, some of which I can remember parts of and none of which I can explain, except maybe the one about buses and 1950s council estates. Why was I paying my fare on a London bus with US quarters? Wish I could remember more.

It will get better. Goodnight and sweet dreams.

"Would you care for a sherry, Linda? You've a choice of course. You can have the sweet or you can have the sort that makes your eyes water." #NeverGetsOld

So farewell then, Andy Kershaw. He always brought a smile to my lips when I heard him introduce something by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in that glorious Rochdale accent. I'm not going to try and reproduce it. You had to be there. Peel had already kindled a love of world music in me, especially African,

I know there are a few Goon Show fans among our readers. The chorus of this might sound familiar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUSW...

They're here. I'm not going to try loading a gif or an image with BS so wobbly.

It seems there have been problems around here earlier on. I wondered why my notifications were showing "30+". Never happened before and not likely. In fact I'd find it a bit overwhelming.

Artichokes. Why?

Plum and Pomegranate. Two girls I used to know at school. You'll have to wait for my memoirs to be published to learn more. Sorry.

I found some bright red furry mould growing on a jar of something in the fridge so I flushed it down the bog. Could have been the next penicillin. Could have been a cure for cancer or Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. Could have cured internet stupidity. Okay, that last one is a bit far fetched.

I could murder six rounds of brawn sandwiches, two rounds of cows udder, a pig's trotter, half a poloney and four slices of slab cake right now.

If this song doesn't moisten your eye there's summat wrong with you. It makes me blub like a baby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dDW...

It's just not right that anyone should have hair like that. That's Melvyn Bragg hair. How can you have hair like that? I've never had hair like that. What do you volumise it with? Meringue? My barnet's flat as a bleedin pancake. When I had any that is. Sod you Tom Conti you handsome bastard.

Song lyrics expressed in scientific measurements, no. 38: "It winds from Chicago to LA, More than 0.00039 parsecs all the way. Get your kicks on route sixty-six."

I still don't understand the point of the Discover feed when 70% of it is stuff that's already in your timeline.

There were six people in that car. Stavely was sitting on Annie's lap in the front passenger seat. Seriously illegal, that. Overloaded.

Today I have been mostly making chicken stock in a pressure cooker. Sounds like heresy to some chefs no doubt but it works. I've done it three times and it's the three best batches I've ever made, and without having a pot sitting on the stove for hours on end, skimming of the fat, topping up the

Hooray, it's tiny spider season! It ran away before I could get a snap of it. There will be others.

"sweetened desserts will be limited to once a week" If it isn't chocolate sponge with chocolate custard there's something very wrong with the world. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pro-celebrity dusting. Could be the next 'Strictly'.

Know what I really miss about my old job (besides the money)? Squeegeeing floors.

He is no more... But the lineage continues!

Who wants to help me out with the other stack? Butter, golden syrup or agave syrup are on hand. If you want maple syrup you'll need to pick some up on the way over.

I hear thunder (outside where the weather is, not in my heart). www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBaU...

I can't help worrying about deep sea creatures that live in complete darkness who suddenly find a research sub shining a sodding great light at them. If it doesn't blind them completely it must at least fuck their night vision for several minutes.

#ProperSaturdayNight #3

#ProperSaturdayNight #2.

"Nice to see you, to see you..." #ProperSaturdayNight

FFS, when am I going to learn to read my posts before sending them!!! (Never) "and then *offer* two, three, four options"

I have to say this again because it pisses me off numerously and I don't say it enough. Interviews are not multiple choice exams! So many times you'll see an interviewer ask their subject a question and then off two, three, four options, none of which might be what the interviewee was going to say

One or two of our readers will remember the beautiful mimosa tree that used to grown near the swimming pool. When it was in full bloom it was magnificent. The two photos below were taken in May 2018 and June 2019.

I could murder a massive bag of dry roast right now.

Today has been a Good Day, mostly. West Ham won a match they really had to win. Losing it would mean almost certain relegation, and there's still no guarantee of that not happening. Secondly, I got a piece of news I've been waiting for for a month. Nothing medical or anything like that but not

One for @diddleynubbins.bsky.social perhaps and @delboy.bsky.social too, amongst others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dx...

"after he directed a middle finger at the 15th green" If he'd stuck with the good old British two-fingered salute plus raspberry instead of flipping the bird he might have got away with it, and also if he'd used 'bollocks' instead of what I suspect was probably 'fuck'. www.bbc.com/sport/golf/a...

There's only one thing better than clean sheets after you've done laundry, and that's brand new sheets. Egyptian cotton would be nice but several parsecs out of my range. My old fitted sheet had a tag at each end saying "top of bottom" to make it easy. This should be something they all have by law.

Am I alone in thinking it's incredibly rude to text someone a link with no explanation about what it is? And only slightly less rude to do the same with an image? Is that very old fashioned of me? I'm 83 years old you know.

They're here.

The satisfaction there is from boiling new potatoes to exactly the right amount of al dente for scooping up butter with is one of life's greatest pleasures.