Hehe 🤣

Brilliant!

Quite the scrap in the owl box #NotAnOwl 🐿️🐿️

The fact that Kemi Badenoch's personal approval ratings have risen in recent months does confirm that there remains a section of the population that you can, indeed, fool all the time

Completely predictable, utter self harming shambles

New The poisoning of the wells Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Of course, it is unlawful. Even the "pre-emptive" justification is half-hearted guff. Of course, it is stupid. Wise US politicians once realised a rules-based international order was in their interests. That is being thrown away. And most of all, and regardless of the above, it is wrong.

If it's an uphill task, I think I know why they're not doing better... 🤔🤦‍♂️

So nice to not have to wear a waterproof for the first time this year on the morning dog walk. Overtrousers and wellies still essential to navigate the mud luge track down to the brook though 🫣😅

Pancakes! 😋 We were too full after the savoury Breton (buckwheat) ones, so may just have to do sweet ones at the weekend... 🫣😅

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

Very good from @verybrexitproblems.bsky.social

Apologising for causing offence to some people or all people means absolutely nothing without accepting your racism and privilege and changing it. We’ve heard it all before. A never ending cycle of systemic racism. Today it’s Jim, tomorrow it’s Bob. Nothing changes.

It’s not your language that offends. It’s your racism.

A sh!tload of manure 👀

We may be weak individually, but collectively we’re stronger than we think and have tools we can leverage- military based, bond markets, overflight rights, Diego Garcia, trade deals, sanctions. Trump is a corrupt, authoritarian leader - we’d have long ago sanctioned his type in other countries.

This

Lovely to see our first snowdrops of the year in the garden

At last, it's the weekend! 🦉😊

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

“Jenrick is a politician with all of the sophistication and skill of a pantomime villain, and with similar chances of emerging triumphant when the time comes for the curtain call.” Wrote that last January… www.thenewworld.co.uk/robert-jenri...

You can be as racist as you like but my god you'd better be a loyal racist

Beautiful sunrise over crisp, frosty ground this morning. What a glorious endorphin hit 😊 The smell of rotting cow manure, not so much... 🤢🤣

Unusual cloud formation this morning, with the clouds looking like they're radiating from the rising sun. Strangely, I'd not seen this before until last week in the S of France

Old tweets being deleted now

Another disgraced ex Tory jumping on the Reform bandwagon. No surprise there...

First BBQ of 2026. And time to start on the last 2 cases of 1996 wine...bought from the year we got married. They were better 5 and 10 years ago, but are still very enjoyable today 😋

Muntjac deer are badass. I've also seen 2 badly gored dogs that had chased and cornered a muntjac. Never let your dog chase one

#uksnow CV22 4/10 Snow has replaced rain and even started to settle on what were very wet main roads just an hour ago. Take care if you're driving anywhere

Yesterday vs today 😳

Probably needs renaming before being sold in the UK 👀🤣

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

New year's day observation: people out and about between 8 and 9am seem to be around 60% dog walkers, 20% runners, 10% cyclists. Dogs very much don't care if/how you celebrated the new year. Your lie-in is overrated and there is essential dog feeding and walking to be done 🐕😋😅 #HappyNewYear #dogs

*Adds chorizo to the growing list of things I need to add at least 25% to the required quantity when cooking with, in order to make up for the amount I 'may' eat during cooking* 🫣😋🤣 See also mushrooms, parmesan, radishes, chocolate, ginger nuts, nuts of any description... 🫣😅

Appropriately for (owl)Boxing Day, Terri the tawny has spent the whole day in the owl box. Starting to nest...or just sleeping off Christmas excesses? 🦉🥚🐣🤞 #wildlife #nature #birds #owls #TawnyOwl

Owly visited the box again a couple of times this morning but for the first time it looked like it might be checking it out rather than using it as a pantry food store. Might it be thinking of nesting?... 🤞🦉🥚🐣 #nature #wildlife #owls

CityFibre contractors have been installing fibre broadband in the village and were working on the telegraph pole outside the house today. Of course our landline has now gone down... Aptly, the contractor doing the work is....FFS 🤦‍♂️🤣

Sunday mouse anyone? No? Just Owly then... 🦉😋 Those are quite the eyes... 👀

If this rain carries on much longer, I may have to consider wearing the old diving drysuit to walk the dog tomorrow...

Exactly this

Absolute corker of a sunrise this morning (before the rain set in! 🤦‍♂️😅)

Terri the Tawny picking up a midnight snack and then thoroughly bedraggled at 7am dropping off another morsel for later... #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #Owls #TawnyOwls #ItsAnOwl

I love this local tradition. The village elves have been at it again. This year, the Lord John Scott statue has been dressed up as Chase from Paw Patrol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yay. Earliest sunset of the year today, so it gets later every day from now on 🤓😊

The UK's bewildering exercise is self harm continues...although now, even more perplexingly, the level of harm is being quantified 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Productive rainy afternoon. Gin sorted. Hic 😋

Another visit to the owl box by Terri the tawny 🦉 #owls #nature #wildlife #birds

I'm obviously not Bakeoff material, but what these mincemeat twists lack in looks, they make up in taste 😋

Brilliant pulling apart of a BS budget sob story in the gutter rag Telegraph

OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity