At that stage of office re-org when it just looks like a bomb has gone off!

Funny how one person can be anti-Semitic and another can just be guilty of childhood folly.

Finally got round to assembling my new office chair...it's got a funky back stretching function - not massage but stretches... supposed to help work out the kinks! It'll try but it'll fail!!

Ordered something from Japan on Boxing Day - it arrived today! Postage was very reasonable - no more expensive than many places charge locally! And yet sending presents to the US etc - bonkers prices!

Just finished 'Proto' by Laura Spinney.. it's about 'Proto-Indo-European' - the reconstructed root language of the Indo-European family of languages that many of us speak today. It's a terrific book using both linguistic, archaeology and adding genetics into the mix to tell the story of how it

And so the old model becomes the new model!! Makes me laugh!! www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Xmas Present Success - Gnome Not Alone!!

Was expecting something raunchier!! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Hmm, I think I could forgo Turkey; just have pigs in blankets, all the veg, roast potatoes and good giblet gravy!! Followed by mince pies, cream and ice cream...

H took over most of the cooking when I got ill - I'm perfectly capable of cooking now but she doesn't really believe me. It is today that I feel this most...I have to bite my tongue! Today I have peeled the potatoes wrong!!

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! You all deserve the best presents!

Sometimes MacOS is a heap of shit - or Mac Application writers are twats. Oh we're going to install a new network profile - that trashes your existing network profile - and when you uninstall - no we won't tidy up afterwards. Remove the network location, reboot - it comes back again! Nuke network

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Can someone just buy next-door's youngest the sheet music for both Seven Nation Underground and Annie's Song. I'm tired of listening to them trying to work it out on the piano!!

“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” This is the posthumous message left by Gil Gerard. The actor who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) has just passed away at the age of 82.

Mmmmm geese fatnog

The Red Guitars - ‘Marimba Jive’ (1984) https://redd.it/1pkc37g https://youtu.be/Po-s6GFRC64

Well, this is a bright spot in a day of gloomy news!

Our local undertakers has been converted to a Winebar...I wonder if they have refused the fridge to cool the wine.

Woohoo - got tickets for three of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs.. Mogwai, Garbage/Placebo and then Wolf Alice. We decided against MBV - didn't want bleeding ears!!

This idea of Trump's around access to social media, names of family members etc for people who want to visit the US. We've got access to his and many of his supporters ,I suggest that they should all be banned considering the comments & threats that they have made! America - Land of the Free

Realising I watched RoboCop as a child and incorrectly assumed I was prepared for how stupid the future would be.

Here's my disturbing thought for the year, Ear Beer...it turns out I have a yeast infection of the ear! Should I cultivate the yeast and make 'Ear Beer'...

IDGAF - I see lots of people dissing the new Supergirl trailer - but.....Blondie....Anything that gets people to hear Blondie is great in my mind!

Moonlandingz were both tight and shambolic at the same time... perfect mix of punk, funk and dance...not saying best gig of the year but up there. And I got to chat with Nadine Shah for a couple of minutes before she decided I was some kind of lunatic.

It's insane...FIFA just continue to confirm that they are money grabbing wankers of the first order!

Off to my last gig of the year ... Moonlandingz at the 100 Club. Booked another gig for early next year for the grand total of zero pounds!

One more gig this year ..seeing Moonlandingz at the 100 Club... should be great. H+M are going to the Molotovs Xmas Party gig at Bush Hall, that'll also be great. Although live music is in a bad way as small venues struggle, there are lots of fantastic bands who don't get the exposure

Heartworms tonight at the Scala...a lot heavier than I expected and better for that. Bass player was amazing... Worth seeing, especially those of you who are goth adjacent...

FFS, it doesn't matter how fast you score runs if you are bowled out for fuck all!! I'd rather our openers batted like Boycott and Tavare...get 100-150 onboard for the first wicket and then you can start scoring.

Reading the various advent calendars that contain food - we traditionally have the Hotel Chocolat one for two but next year I am considering mixing it up. Or perhaps I stick with the Hotel Chocolat one and have my own special calendar as well...

Hmmm...I reckon @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social RPG collection fell off the shelf and caused this... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CMAT tonight...but I'm knackered, glad we're sitting down...might have a pre-gig snooze

In the queue, laughing at the announcements...traders, you have two minutes...#dragonmeet

On train to Dragonmeet... hopefully see a few pals!

Hamish Hawk tonight at the Islington Assembly Rooms..and then CMAT on Monday. We've done loads of gigs this year. And I've still got Heartworms and Moonlandingz to come. Already got five gigs lined up for next year.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: The Smiths Stone Roses Sisters of Mercy Nanci Griffiths Bananarama And so many, many more....

At the stage of 'Oh Fuck Off' when reading about people moaning about the mansion tax....People whinging about how much they've invested in their property over the years, think yourself lucky that you had that to invest. Young people would love the opportunity to buy a place to invest into...

Is a third world country one where the population is not predominantly white? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And another nostalgia gig booked....Haircut 100!!

This looks so cool - takes me back to some of the arcade games I played....

It's the entrance to the Hollow Earth?

I can see that the 'mansion tax' is unpopular - so I have various alternatives 1) Capital gains on main residence sales - they do this in the Land of the Free.... 2) A Bedroom Tax - if you have more bedrooms than residents - then you pay a special tax. 3) A Greedy Twat tax - if you complain

Looking forward to Dragonmeet on Saturday - I shall be bringing bags to fill with interesting things!!

And so the PPPPPP has kicked another project in the head!! Sometimes I wonder - we employ some very smart people who have all the common sense of a day-old kitten!

If you love British folklore, great writing, characters to fall in love with and don't need to sleep when a new one comes out and you can devour it in one go...you should be all over this!

If you see this, post a monster...

Fascinating and obviously plot hooks for a future Cthulhu scenario/story. Neolithic Cthulhu anyone?

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

Watching 'The Cancer Detectives' on C4 - feeling proud and also a little 'home-sick'....I was born in the Churchill Hospital and grew up in Oxford. And of course #CRUK innit....