Strands #665 “Load up on tissues” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🔵💡🔵 🟡🔵

Connections Puzzle #931 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Wordle 1,653 6/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Strands #663 “Please hold” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵

Connections Puzzle #929 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,651 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Strands #662 “Caroler's count” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Connections Puzzle #928 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟪 🟩🟦🟩🟩 🟦🟩🟦🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Wordle 1,650 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Strands #661 “Gather around” 🔵💡🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵

Connections Puzzle #927 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Wordle 1,649 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Reader, it arrived just as I had gone out to buy a replacement. The turkey has landed!

The Eagle Has Not Landed update - delivery time changed to 6pm. Heading out to hunt for meat! Meanwhile, Duolingo is trolling me.

Merry Christmas indeed @farmison.bsky.social

Thought I’d check my WhatsApp chat with them and ask again, having been told via Instagram that they’d refer my question to customer services and pass on my phone number. This is the reply from @farmison.bsky.social on WhatsApp

Made the mistake of looking at the Trust Pilot 1 star reviews. So many people have been let down. Not feeling very hopeful.

And I tell you what, if you’re at all neurospicy, last minute changes of long-standing plans are pants.

Turkey still not here. Will head out at 13:00 in search of festive protein if it hasn’t arrived. Chances of getting a decent turkey and a ham?!! I know it’s a first world problem, but it’s pesky.

Message from Fed Ex directly this morning to say that the turkey (and other parts of the festi-food order) are en route. Sadly, nothing from @farmison.bsky.social themselves. Hoping that the description of the container being 10cm x 10cm x 10cm is a mistake 😐

Still no turkey ☹️

Wordle 1,648 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

And just putting everyone on hold is not providing customer support. @farmison.bsky.social

Am waiting for the @farmison.bsky.social delivery that I ordered at the beginning of November. Meant to be here by 12:00 today. It isn’t. And no answer from their customer services via any medium. Very not chuffed.

Connections Puzzle #925 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Wordle 1,647 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This is such sad news. If ever there was proof that you can know, support, care for, encourage, inspire & laugh with someone you’ve never met, it was embodied in this wonderful man. Michael gave so much of himself to everyone he interacted with. He was A Good Thing in a sea of Less Good Things.

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

Wordle 1,646 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Please water my plants and stand on draining board.

How to know if you have the superflu From the new Private Eye, out now.

Strands #657 “All the trimmings” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Connections Puzzle #923 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Wordle 1,645 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ 📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Strands #656 “On the chopping block” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

Fleas Navidad.

Connections Puzzle #922 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,644 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Always power-cut ready

to cheer you up, here's Patrick Warburton and his sons (two of which may actually be clones???) doing Kronk lines

Is this real?! WTAF. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#Llamagrama 247 - Flower Power 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 💡2 🔤 0 #LlamaHerd #FlowerPower www.llamagrama.com

🦊#FoxiMax #1208 6/8 foximax.com 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩

Strands #654 “Out of line” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵