www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja... YES THIS. Nowt wrong with 90 minutes as a run time. At a push, you can have 2 hours for something spesh. 3 and a half is just SILLY.

Absolutely loved Angharad's puzzle jug, and her hilarious inability to remember the names and accurate subspecies of the pets on it. 😂 #Potterythrowdown

Did some tidying, took my Mum to garden centre with a Lakeland outlet, about to settle down to watch the potters. A very Sundayish Sunday. ##potterythrowdown

Dismal weather today. Singing a bit of Morrissey to myself. 🎵 Everyday is like Sunday, everyday is silent and grey...🎵

Flint Castle. Quite pleased to see this after 11 miles. Meant it was time for cake.

On the Dee Estuary, enjoying biiiig skies. And mud. I like a bit of river mud, if I'm not actually in it.

It is, a bit. 😁

Cracking sunrise. 💚 Almost makes me feel positive about my multiple deadlines. 😁

Every yoga teacher in the world* has decided January is all about core. 😥 January should be about lying down doing some nice stretches, maybe a bit of meditation. *The two I've been to classes with this week, at least.

Morning. You'd think after all this time I'd have got the hang of this working on a Monday thing, but it definitely feels like a bit of a trial today. Would rather be dot watching! #spinerace

Quick dot check before bed. Sarah Perry is proper motoring! Bet it's not very nice out there tonight ❄️ Best of luck to them getting through a chilly, snowy night. #spinerace

Trailor for Wuthering Heights at the cinema: 'The world greatest love story'. Me: "Love story my arse" Mum: "Bet they left out the bit where he hanged the dog." We are not a family of Heathcliff fans. 😁

Went to Hamnet. Oh God. With that and All Of Us Strangers I think I'm starting to develop a Pavlovian response where I see Paul Mescal and start weeping hopelessly.

In further news avoidance, I'm spending my evening making everyone look at this Glossop Mountain Rescue call out report, where they had to carry a tired golden retriever off a hill. 🤣🤣🤣 Honestly, Mountain Rescue are the best people. 💚 www.facebook.com/share/p/1JPo...

#CarnyxMemeThursday 🤣

New job has finally woken up and I'm actually busy and I'm ignoring the news for sanity. So, today's lunch break shall be dedicated to carnyx memes. 10/10. Marvellous.

Also, I think the Winter Spine Race starts this weekend.... Ooof. Good luck to them all. 🥶

Enjoying the evolution of the Met Office yellow warning for snow on Friday as it slowly and ominously starts to encircle Manchester.

Being quietly emotionally devastated for the lad on #OnlyConnect who got the square root question right but forgot it was a sequence. 😥

Crawling to the end of Monday, held together by Buddo and the fact it's still surprisingly light out there. 😁

Right, I've done to 3.30pm, surely that's enough for the day now? 😁 I've got better things to be doing, like napping.

Morning. Back to it, then. May your first Monday of 2026 be as painless as possible. 😁

Sunday night, tea, snowing gently outside, #potterythrowdown This is all very satisfactorily January. 💚 Already deeply invested in the concept of soup tureens. 😄

Took my cold for a small walk. Was lightly snowed on. ❄️ I wonder if there's a collective noun for sausage dogs in coats? A sleeve of sausages? A cape of dachshunds?

Local FREEZING WEATHER update: there was a very thin film of ice on the bird bath this morning, which I broke by poking my finger in it. 😃 I have snow envy. But also a disgusting cold, so I wouldn't be playing in it anyway. 😃

Bits of the 1958 Preston Bypass (the UK's first motorway) were used in the construction of Barton Bridge on the M60 (the UK's only truly circular orbital motorway). 😂 Tell me you're not happier for knowing that. 😂

Thanks to all those people who were all "only three people from 'We Didn't Start the Fire' left alive now". Unstoppable earworm. 😡 And one of the worst ones, as I can't sensibly remember most of it. 😂

Accurate representation of how I feel about having to fly home in a few days and then go back to work. 😁

Lisbon Christmas lights. 💙 Have walked miles looking at pretty things, 100% fuelled by pastries and custards. 😁

Look at this glorious Portuguese mountain cat. 💙 Recurring holiday conversation: Me: "I could pop out in the hand luggage and bring it home with us..." Boyfriend: "NO" 😁

Christmas walk in the woods. With cork oak and eucalyptus. Smelled glorious.

Merry Christmas!🎄 Have been to the top of a sunny hill. You can see our (temporary) home from here. 😁

Noticeably not complaining about the weather at the moment. Have a lightly sunburned nose. Have been paddling, and looking at flamingos rather than moors. 😁

Can't stop laughing at this. Honestly, if the sign says "do not look through these windows" the first thing I'm going to do is look through the windows. 😂

Up the hill for a glorious solstice sunrise. 😂

Last day of work before Christmas. Fairy lights on in my home office (back bedroom). Yes, that's star bunting made from an OS map. 😁 An excellent secret santa gift from many years ago.

I strongly support this elf alternative.

There are a lot of lovely things about living in the north west, but looking between the rain here and everyone else's lovely sun rise photos is making me think longingly of moving east. 😁 Still. Two working days left before Christmas. 4 days to Solstice.

Very much a "what you looking at?" expression on the sparrowhawk in the garden this afternoon.

Morning. Tuesday. Not raining. ⛅️ Five days to Solstice. Getting there. 💚

It's 'archie-pel-AGO' and I won't believe anyone who tells me otherwise. 😁

Praying to Buddo to end the rain...😁

Morning. Monday. Sunrise wasn't really all those triumphant. Still, 6 days to Solstice.

Butterflies. Their wings flapped which was lovely. If also slightly startling.

Spooky disco woods. 💙 Rather fun (and slightly disorientating) effect at a rainy but impressive Light Trail tonight.

Clearly written solely to get rage posts from disgruntled Mancunians and the anti-grouse shooting lobby. 😡😁

Nice bit of winter sun and winter mud about today.

This is BRILLIANT. Furiously looking up Ben Rinnes now to plan a hike. 😁

I've been to London this week for a work thing and I seem to have developed Reflective Northernerness as a result. 😂 My vowels are flatter than a pancake and every interaction with a random I've had today had involved me calling them "luv".

Joining in the Christmas festivities by eating Rudolph. 😁