I'm weird... I get just as upset when the freight train smashes the DeLorean to pieces in #BackToTheFutureIII as I do when the Minis are thrown down the mountain in #TheItalianJob... I just have a thing about special cars, I guess.

I know that New Year is supposed to be all about excitement and hope... but I feel nothing but despair at the prospect of 2026... 😒

Beyond evil...

Heading home from work. The barricades across all roads around the South Bank (ready for tomorrow night) are more than a little bit scary... 😵‍💫

I am The Dragon Reborn... 🐲

Thence to White Hall, where I carried my wife to see the Queen in her presence-chamber; and the maydes of honour and the young Duke of Monmouth playing at cards. Some of them, and but a few, were very pretty; though all well dressed in velvet gowns.

Very, very cold - subzero temperatures - from the weekend... ❄️❄️❄️ I am NOT looking forward to that... I need 🏝️🏖️🌞🔥

I am seeing posts saying that AI has gone live on 'Truth Social' and is immediately exposing it as 'Lies Social'. But I don't trust anything I see online anymore (in fact, I automatically disbelieve it until I can corroborate it myself). Is anyone on the Lies site? Is it true? Hilarious, if so...

Calling in at Mr. Rawlinson’s, where he stopped me to dine with him and two East India officers of ships. I had good discourse, particularly of the people at the Cape of Good Hope, of whom they of their own knowledge do tell me these one or two things.

Viz, that when they come to age, the men do cut off one of the stones of each other, which they hold doth help them to get children the better and to grow fat; that they never sleep lying, but always sitting upon the ground.

I have almost found out a young gentlewoman for my turn, to wait on my wife, of good family and that can sing.

A grey, cold day, with a cold. Perfect excuse to binge #TheTalamasca on the Netflix on the sofa. Most amusing. Elizabeth McGovern's terrible English accent and Manchester masquerading as London notwithstanding, it's entertaining. Especially the Interview with a Vampire cameo from the nutty writer.

Very strange dreams last night... mainly about organising a LibDem party conference in a shopping centre in Croydon. But also involving running virus prevention for a Victorian era office in Mayfair where the King was doing a podcast about tractors. And something to do with parking permits. Weird.

To White Hall, and got up to the top gallerys in the Banquetting House, to see the audience of the Russia Embassadors; which took place after long waiting and fear of the falling of the gallery (it being so full, and part of it being parted from the rest).

Mrs. Mitchell told me what I heard not of before, the strange burning of Mr. De Laun, a merchant’s house in Loathbury, and his lady (Sir Thomas Allen’s daughter) and her whole family; not one thing, dog nor cat, escaping.

1776: Hard frost, grey, spitting, dark, bright & freezing.

1824: Went with neighbour Billings to Southey Wood & Gees Holt to hunt ferns - found none - met with a new species of moss fern stripd growing on a common species like the mistletoe on a thorn it is a sort of moss mistletoe - preservd a specimen - saw a branch of blackthorn dogrose & eldern in...

Good old Donald coming to the rescue!

Every potential RefUK voter you meet needs to be told who funds him, and why...

Two paragraphs that get to the absolute heart of what Farage is all about: money and conning people. Without the bankrolling, he’s a loser. But, if you think he’s on your side, so are you. So are we all if these murky shits buy him power.

1776: Snow on the ground, grey, sun, louring & still.

With my wife to church, and coming out, went out both before my Lady Batten, he not being there, which I believe will vex her.

I've had a cold for nearly eight weeks... but I don't know if it is the same cold that waxes and wanes, or three consecutive colds without a day in between... First part: mainly cough, second part: full on cough and snot, third part: excruciating sinuses, and snot... #FeelingSorryForMyself

Home with great content with my wife, not so well pleased with the company at the house today, which was full of citizens, there hardly being a gentleman or woman in the house; a couple of pretty ladies by us that made sport in it, being jostled and crowded by prentices.

Fun fact of the day: Asa Butterfield is surprisingly tall... #FunFacts #BlueEyes

Me at the beginning of 2025 vs me at the end of 2025

I've had a cold for nearly eight weeks... but I don't know if it is the same cold that waxes and wanes, or three consecutive colds without a day in between... First part: mainly cough, second part: full on cough and snot, third part: excruciating sinuses, and snot... #FeelingSorryForMyself

1776: Dark & frosty, grey & thaw, some snow, snow on the ground.

Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Poisoned by RefUK and bolstered by pusillanimous Labour, the UK is viewed as an 'unwelcoming, racist' country. We really are not, but it suits the billionaire, media-owning manipulators' agenda. We're ****ed.

Home, and found my wife busy among her pies, but angry for some saucy words that her mayde Jane has given her, which I will not allow of, and therefore will give her warning to be gone.

But, Lord! to consider how my natural desire is to pleasure, which God be praised that he has given me the power by my late oaths to curb so well as I have done, and will do again after two or three plays more.

1824: Found at the bottom of a dyke made in the roman bank some pootys of varied colors & the large garden ones of a russet color with a great many others of the meadow sort which we calld 'badgers' when I was a schoolboy found nowere now but in wet places - there is a great many too of a water...

I absolutely love 'The Italian Job', it is one of my all-time favourite films... but I do have two major problems with it... Firstly, Minis have their gearboxes at the front of the engine - a very vulnerable position...

This is Trump's way. The people around him make a bargain with the Devil. They trade proximity to power for their souls. Even nominally "good" people (Rubio) are corrupted and destroyed by Trump. He issues orders to commit unthinkable evil, and subordinates comply, self debasing, or they're out.

A five-year cyberattack campaign targeting users of Amazon Web Services infrastructure in the West has been confirmed by the Amazon threat intelligence team #Amazon #AWS #sandworm #russian #russia #cyberattack #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking

Hither come Mr. Battersby; and we falling into a discourse of a new book of drollery in verse called Hudebras, I would needs go find it out, and met with it at the Temple: cost me 2s. 6d.

These vile alt-right 'patriots' pretend to be Christian, but the King - whom they pretend to revere - spells out in clearest terms the true meaning of Christianity, they have the usual hissy fit. #Predictable #Pathetic #Hypocrisy #KingsSpeech

What do you do with so much leftover gravy?? 🤔

Christmas dinner cooked with military precision, once again (cf. last year), excellent leftovers for tomorrow, Christmas pud doused in in cognac and successfully set aflame. Stuffed to bursting, legs aching, going to bed! Hope you've all had a lovely day, Blooties. 😁

1824: Gatherd a handful of daiseys in full bloom - saw a woodbine & dogrose in the woods putting out in full leaf & a primrose root full of ripe flowers what a day this usd to be when a boy how eager I usd to attend the church to see it stuck with evergreens (emblems of Eternity) & the cottage...

1776: Frost, sun, pleasant, frost. Full moon.

With my boy walked, it being a most brave cold and dry frosty morning, and had a pleasant walk to White Hall, where I intended to have received the Communion with the family, but I came a little too late.

I walked up into the house and spent my time looking over pictures, particularly the ships in King Henry the VIIIth’s Voyage to Bullen; marking the great difference between their build then and now.

I've got something in my eye. Both eyes actually... #Christmas 🥲🥰🤝

Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave: "The White House... you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." #PedoPresident #StarWars

Jeepers, BBCOne... I really didn't realise there were *so many* Spiderman movies... I've seen maybe a third of them?

This is a disgrace: "It's allowing developers to game the system," the veteran of more than 50 years says, adding that making it law would be an "absolute abomination". @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social #EndOurCladdingScandal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Julian Clary looks bloody great for 66... #QI