Can you help my friend and I identify what's made such lovely, neat holes in her leaves? Also see the bug hotel! We *think* we know, but would welcome your opinions, too — thanking you 🙏

What have you done, Bluesky? I can't see videos any longer, just a blank space or a 'Play' button, which doesn't work? 🤷🏻

It appears to be 'Wankadoodle Day' ... why don't my calendars remind me? BBC stroking this for all it's worth. Can we have a moment's silence for Chris Mason being out of the country at this sad time? That's quite enough.

@cloudhead.bsky.social Hello - nice to see you back — I hope whatever it was has been well-and-truly banished 😊

Yes, that's right, Admin: if you continue to show an account in your 'Suggested for You' for more than three months, despite my lack of interest and hiding it, then my subsequent muting will change to 'Block', as I've just done. I'm sure they are perfectly nice but 'not interested' means just that.

@dorsetang.bsky.social Here she is! She hasn't left us for 'better quality engagement' elsewhere: she's just gone to work for Jason in Department 'S' for a bit! 😊

Incredibly, 50 years have passed since the delightfully bucolic Derek & Clive gave us their first ever album of live folk ditties. Veering somewhere between Pride & Prejudice, the jolly couple brought nothing to mind more than 'The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady'. Or part that title thereof 🤔

Why on earth do people still go on 'Today' on R4 when, right-wing excepted, they are not permitted to finish an answer in the face of unnecessarily rude and aggressive questioning? Even Anna Foster's at it now. We learn nothing from this approach other than the editor's own politics.

NEWS!! Here's the poster for my forthcoming solo exhibition of caricatures at @quirkyfox.bsky.social. Entitled 'Divine Comedy', it's themed around comedians and comedy actors. Show opens July 1st. More details and a link to follow in due course. Reposts much appreciated. #caricature #art

I have very flat ears - No 'Shrek' type 'wingnut', I: Of course, this all means that I cannot hear the sky.

I know it's radio, but please may I have subtitles for Aston Villa's Unai Emery's post-match interviews? * asking for c. 16 million others ** not a clue

@cornettofairy.bsky.social In case you missed it ...

That's right, Mr Diamond, do presume to speak for the rest of the world in blaming Iran for Hormuz and the current conflict with Israel and the US on TWatO - do you think we are so stupid as to be taken in by your nonsense? Your guest wasn't. As a BBC presenter, you are expected to be neutral.

Montague toiling away at the shit-face, picture of Starmer marked 'Enemy of Reform' taped to her microphone stand. Come Hell or high water, she, her BBC cronies and the many political-opponent-guests will do everything in their power to remove and destroy Starmer. "WatO: Cheaper than Reform Subs!"

Such a lovely day, made even better by a lonesome blackbird's glorious song from my chimney. So I nipped in to find my Observer book of British Bird Song and here's what it said:

With all the armed, existential conflicts acting out, BBC World at One devotes its entire opening 30 minutes to the number of raging angels dancing on the Mandelson pin-head and makes damn sure Starmer's opponents get 90% of it to imply, smear and lie without a bit of evidence. Rien ne change, alors

Coffee never tastes better than just after eating black grapes. (You have not been charged for this valuable piece of wisdom)

Well judged searchlight on the MO of the right-wing media. Well worth a few minutes to read, imho:

I'm finding it hard to stay calm at every BBC news programme: today's irritant is that second-rate Nick Eardly claiming Jim Ratcliffe's contention re immigrants is actually valid because Farage and Stride say it is. To be corrected by Sarah Montague over the scale of immigration is for shame.

I wonder if it's occurred to Chris Mason that the reason Team GB haven't yet bothered the Olympic scorers can only be Starmer? How can he cling on to power in warmth and luxury whilst those brave battered Brits break and bleed for us? It should be good for a week or two, anyway. Hey ho.

Anyone want this baby? Printed for a craft fair but the audience were not my type of people!!

Trump Is Pushing the U.S.-Europe Alliance Onto a Precipice www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w... Why unthinkable? The USA has chosen fascism to replace democracy. There are no longer any values it shares with Europe (or the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan etc).

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

@cloudhead.bsky.social Might I suggest these when Madame dons her salopette avec le T-shirt au jardin? Porquoi? Parce que le jardinage est une affaire sérieuse, bien sûr!

@dorsetang.bsky.social Well, I reckon you'd have been about 2 when it was on, but 'Nuts in May' is on BBC4 iPlayer, and as it's mandatory for all Darzet folk to have seen it, you have to, too - it'z the law. 'Tis how I imagine you speak, see ... 🤭

Like most of us, I'm a frequent user of Wikipedia and often 'trail' through the articles via links. This is one of my favourite entries, on some breathtakingly beautiful little things ☺️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake

Of all the things I never thought I'd share, preferring 'In The Factory' with Greggggg Wallace rather than its star vehicle reboot comes close to the top.

It's becoming more annoying. BBC radio ends every news item in a bulletin on a phrase baiting listeners to dislike the government or anyone who bends no knee to the right-wing. So doctors were against online appts, Lammy goes against the golden thread of jury 'justice', and Gary Lineker left ...

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned: Marina 1800 Cavalier GSI 2000 Rover Vitesse BMW 535i Individual E39 V8 VW Golf Plus drove assorted company cars.

Please sign ✍️ Please repost ♻️ Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Don’t let these two shysters get off without repercussions. Both more interested in their mistresses than protecting the country & the vulnerable .

Dear BBC - do you think we could have programmes without Phil Wang appearing? He's a nice chap and not without humour, but I am tired of Your Favourites infecting every possible show into which you can crowbar them. Diversity also means 'Different People', too? Thanks, awfully.

@bsky.app Some videos playing then can't be closed/cleared crashing the app. iPhone iOS26.

An important consideration in the midst of Trump's recklessness: cepr.net/publications...

If anyone else is very upset by the unrelenting fireworks that seem to have become the norm, you can sign this petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

@deeplyclassical.bsky.social You may very well own one incarnation of this, but I do think this special offer is something of an absolute bargain from Presto. Interested parties can find it easily: it does take some time to download, especially if one of the 'posh frock' file formats! c. 9 GB.

Fuck off Elno you cunt. We know who you’re siphoning money into from your rancid purse strings, and we know why. I hope the British secret service keep a close eye on this one. He’s an enemy of the state. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The Daily Express has been fined 'nine times' so far this year by IPSO over inaccurate headlines but you would never know it. When will the UK press be properly punished for deliberately publishing disinformation? #IPSOfail

I do think it about time R4's BH was re-titled as BS. Absolutely every utterance from Paddy O'Connell drips with sneering and anti-left rhetoric, and has done so for years. Tired of it now.

What? This? 😆

If you see this, post a vampire who isn’t Dracula

Here's hoping Martin Carthy walks off with the Mercury Prize tonight. Peerless, and an object lesson in minding one's work whilst paying one's dues. Never stole, nor looked for credit. And that reminds me of a forever favourite song: youtu.be/o6TGIARTId4?...

Gamon wel dun ...

@s2hewitt.bsky.social OI!! Desert Island Discs NOW!! 😀

I finished and signed The Beatles. I just have to varnish them, then package them up for shipping to @quirkyfox.bsky.social gallery in N.Z. Details on this quadriptych, and the exhibition in which it will appear, to follow in due course. Re-posts appreciated! #caricature #art

Just a tiny tipette, government: if you're hoping to instill confidence over introducing new, potentially controversial legislation, then avoid a spokesperson who sounds, with due respect, like a fourth lead from Wallace & Gromit #today

At last - the truth is out there.