Poppy hating the fireworks

for all y’all Brits out there, please consider for a moment what it’s like for your Black and Brown friends to hear this sort of stuff being said by *elected representatives*

Can’t express how much me and the doggos loathe this time of year: I’m locked in with them with two out of synch radios at full blast, swigging wine and paracetamol to numb the fucking headache while the fireworks go off like a fucking war zone. Yay.

Mrs B just turned these into the sexiest veggie curry I have ever had!

While it’s good that the whole Andrew thing is finally being dealt with, could we perhaps take this opportunity to ask the wider question: what the fuck is the point of the ‘royal’ family?

Chilling on a wet, blustery evening

Small but perfectly formed sweet potato crop!

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

@royalsociety.org have already demonstrated they are too piss-weak or piss-scared to take action

NYT’s way of apologising?

The annual 2 months of 5th Nov has properly started so I’m sitting boxed in the living room with the dogs and the radio on full blast to try and drown the fireworks out. Ban the fucking things: or at least ban selling them to selfish twats.

Soggy dogs blanket bundle

Good to see the artist formerly known as prince Andrew is losing (nearly) all of his anachronistic titles, perhaps this is a good time for all royal titles for all of them to get in the bin? It is the 21st century after all. Just saying.

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Not the classiest shot, but apart from the roast duck, everything else on the plate (including the plums for the plum sauce) is from the allotment!

I'm sorry I said your poem about the little hedgehog was predictable and that the rhyme wasn't really working properly.

Allotment visitor!

I often say to undergraduates if you can’t decide what you want to do after graduation make a list of things you actively want to avoid in your career. The thing at the top of my list back then is what I have been lumped with for the last three years. So much for being congruent!

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If anyone is stuck for a Christmas pressie for me:

Catching some sunshine on a stormy day

Woohoooooooo!!!!!

YEEEEESSSSSS!!!!

Go on Ellie!

This Labour government seems to determined to create all the tools necessary for a future government of the far-right to control, surveille, and discipline the entire population.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

Oh, fuck off!

My Spanish penpal sings in a Kajagoogoo tribute band. He's excellent, in fact (wait for it) once you've seen Juan, you've seen Limahl.

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"And then I invented air, but I don't get the credit for that."

Do this. Do that. Familiarise yourself with this system. Take this mandatory online training. Learn this stuff. Don’t do this. Update that. Install this. Attend this. Report on this system. Be an academic: it’s the only career that gives you real freedom. 😂😂😂

You keep your thumb up his fundament Chuck, I’ll try and get Sadako back in the well.

Get in!!!

No, Musk’s fellowship is not in question: @royalsociety.org have already demonstrated they are too weak to enforce their own regulations.

Bucks Fizz have let themself go.

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I’ve cleaned the carpets and furniture: this is the only dry thing to sit in, so the dogs are depressed!

… and on and on and on. Six. Fucking. Months.

You a giraffe? Yeah man. Are you? No mate. Zebra.

Allotment veg messy briam for tea!

House wolf.

Do you really need to stir your reactions? How do you know?

Here's a flag for roundabout artists...

Some beans!

Getting of the rain on the allotment, with unexpected company!

My mate just sent me this lol