Pet sounds: Why some dog owners share music with their 4-legged friends apnews.com/article/musi...

Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)

I liked it better when tech entrepreneurs looked like this.

SOMEONE CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. I have found the most middle class review ever on Ocado for Comte cheese. Steady yourselves for this Ready? You’re not even close to being ready

#WindowsOnWednesday A cute little dog looking out the window in Portugal. #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBluesky #Portugal #Dogs #Scape

The BBC News website’s proofreading reached a new high this evening, running a story about ‘a woman in his 30s’.

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Sez Les (25th January 1974). John Cleese once again teams up with Les Dawson.

#European to #US #travel figures. Voting with our feet.

TINK: This is just absurd. I look like Scrooge. #Corgi #Corgisky #Storm

This afternoon was dominated by a Tuscan chicken cookathon.

Tors Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Ray Mackey Photography @@raymackeyphoto.bsky.social #Photography

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

Correct. Pretty weird German (having lived in der Schweitz) but German nevertheless.

I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.

Awake at 4am, worrying about Trump and Greenland 🇩🇰

Me to Eddie a minute ago: I can’t believe I’ve ended up living in Manchester with a strange dog.

The Art Deco masterpiece, American Radiator Building, Manhattan, NYC. c.1924

The daily back from school greeting

A view from the river Brue, Glastonbury. #river #landscape #nature #glastonia #Tor #countryside #summer #glastonburytor #photography #Leica #swans

In Iraq, some book markets leave their books out on the streets overnight, trusting the local saying: “The reader does not steal, and the thief does not read.”

Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."

Far Side

One advantage of my current insomnia phase is that the internet is full of Americans overnight, so I’ve learnt that they have their own types of birds with funny names - grackles, mergansers, chickadees.

Don't you think the one with the beard looks like Janice.

RIP Molly Parkin. I met her in the 90s when I did a report about her ‘Prosperity Thinking’ events. She went bankrupt shortly afterwards. Such a colourful and amusing character. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

It’s aged around 500, it weighs 150 stones, it’s not exactly a looker and it has a thing about Greenland. No. It’s not Donald Trump. It’s a Greenland Shark. #Trump #Greenland

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

Jan Bonawentura Ostrowski (Poland, b.1946) Nosorożec ( #Rhinoceros ), n.d. (2nd half 20th c.) Oil on canvas, 92 x 100 cm rempex.com.pl/wydarzenia/5...

The canal at the end of the street. Lots of paw prints on the surface. The local cats have discovered they can walk on water.

Peacock Fairywren.... not the formal name of a specific species but a descriptive, informal name sometimes used for the Superb Fairy due to the male's striking blue breeding plumage. A small bird with a long blue and white tail that is held cocked. 📸: @vik.d_wildlife

An exhausted mom gives the baby bottle to her friend instead of her son, and the two can't stop laughing

Clever headline #Manchester United #Amorim

Today’s Mirror headline: ‘Tyrant captured by lunatic’.

‘Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.’ Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

I once directed Anna in a radio reading and she insisted on 37 takes until she got it right.

Very excited to see Anna Massey (and Geoffrey Palmer) in tonight's Poirot! (I've skipped past the Orient Express, which I've already seen two or three times.)

Somewhere out there in the universe is the story of a famous (male, I think) actor congratulating himself on putting his director through 27 takes of a particular shot till he got it just right and the director responding "We printed the first take."

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Last night’s frost was clearly too much for the local crocodiles.

Guess who left the kitchen window slightly open while chopping onions last night and forgot to close it? ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

I just apologised to my 20-something lodger for taking over the kitchen and said: ‘Sorry. I’m like Fanny Craddock on crack’. He gave me a funny look, whereupon I realised he hadn’t a clue what I was talking about.

Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.

For connoisseurs of utterly mental extensions on mundane houses (via reddit) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Oh, this is interesting. So you should end your alt text with a period. I rarely do that, but I guess it's because the intonation will be wrong if you leave it out. I'll start adding it now!

Bougie 🙄

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Happy New Year. I’m sure 2026 will be better than 2025. Here’s the Roman New Year’s god Janus. I like him but he can be a bit two-faced.