Alone on the Ice by David Roberts, South by Shackleton, or maybe The Sea Shall Embrace Them by David Shaw, or Until The Sea Shall Free Them by Robert Frump

One day. It's just one day. One little, harmless day. A wee bitteen of a day. Just one, wee, small little day. How bad can it be. You've already done three. Just one day.

Fireworks again! Was there not enough of that messing and jigacting yesterday.

Smol. Yeasty. Bed rotting.

Those bluesky roundups are AI, you guys. Can't run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds, you know

We went out to look at the fireworks for a minute and came back in, Lola was looking glum so I picked her up and said gimme a snuggle and a kiss mwah mwah and the boy looked terrified for a sec

Help help they are trying to blow up my estate with me still in it

the confetti clears at 12:01am revealing me inexplicably tucked into a canopy bed and snoring so strongly the end of my nightcap is getting sucked in and out of my mouth

A short break for a light dinner and back to blanket adjusting

I've a theory. We didn't survive. The world ended, and we're all in purgatory, a purgatory run by computers and AI because we didn't turn enough of them off.

She also got the zoomies, then launched herself up on the armchair to rearrange a blanket, then started eating my hat and when I said hey don't eat my hat I need that she started chewing faster

Some fireworks have gone off outside with enough power to set off alarms.

The glenroes, but for a whole new year

soop and a sambwich

LOLA JUST DID A BINKY

I didn't achieve anything this year but my main goal of keeping myself and Lola alive was achieved I guess. I got a degree as well, I suppose. But mostly it was about keeping my head down and getting through it, which is the plan for next year too.

Working New Year’s Eve

I looked up jobs in Nunavut and I could be earning 112k a year? Seeyis!

Someone pretended very hard not to understand what I was saying here and blocked me. A very Bluesky interaction overall, 5 stars

Ordered my 2026 Antarctica calendar 👍

I'm a bit delirious right now but I just laughed myself sick remembering a Big Reveal thing that happened in work where a crowd was gathered with champagne and a curtain pulled back for a surprise reveal to absolute silence, and the marketing woman tried to get everyone to clap & someone loudly

The boy is reporting the same symptoms. He brought illness into my home, I know it

Lost a full bag of lola's pea flakes so just got stung for 34 quid for a replacement bag. Ridiculous.

YES! HAHAHA! YES!

Oh my god an ex was like this, always like ‘I’d do THIS if I saw someone do this to a woman’ and so on and when I said ‘bro you can’t even bring your plate to the sink’ he sulked for two days

Have that Coming Down With Something feeling again, I better not be coming down with anything, if one of those disease merchants out there roaming the streets gave me the flu I'll go on a rampage

when I was driving home a hawk thing grabbed a bunny rabbit from the side of the road right ahead of me! Me and the rabbit were like "WHAT the HELLLLL"

I seem to be in this position a lot. That’s what I get for working in the broken-glass-and-loose-nails factory I guess

Went out to bring in the bins (even though I was the one who brought them out) to see that my car once again has a flat tyre, no good deed goes unpunished.

I agreed to work over Xmas cos another dept were working and might need me but I got an out of office from them so what now

Just idly thinking there and remembering the time I was in Seahorse Aquariums where there was a little greenish crab cleaning his eyestalk with his claw, I automatically gave him a wave as I walked by and he waved back, then went back to cleaning his eyestalk. I think of it often.

THIS IS THE ONLY PROOF I HAVE OF THIS BOOK, WHERE. THE HELL. IS IT.

Important PSA

Lola, will you bring the bins out? And bring me in some pringles on your way back. No? Useless.

Daaaaamn this holiday sugar crash/normal seasonal depression/2025 retrospective crossover is ROUGH

It’s true! But it’s because doctors don’t take us seriously!

WHY are you EMAILING me

That BBC Titanic thing is on now, for my ships people

Me; Oh I die. I have never been so ill. I will survive from now on on a diet of plain crackers and water. It's over The boy: Got prawn crackers, here Me: ooooh!

Starship Troopers sure why not

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

I'm catastrophically unwell, like a human pipe bomb or flare or something

Gavlebocken down, however I'm a firm believer that for the world to right itself, the Gavlebocken needs to burn.

Home! I’m excited! Lola’s excited! Never moving again! Exciting!

I JUST quit a book 250 pages in and I can't read any more books about shipwrecks right now so the solution as always was get some Steo

"Unions?!! A lot of the time unions do more harm than good" - my dad

Now watching the King's speech.

🥲

I AM HOME TO ABSOLUTE SILENCE (besides the usual) BLESSED BLESSED SILENCE

I got my dad a robot vacuum for Xmas and it’s already the new family pet