In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social One for you, I believe: fb.watch/Emy6EsAIJl/?

New Year celebration is just me, some whisky/whiskey and My Morning Jacket ripping it up.

In 2025 I set out to play all the Bowie box sets in full and they even elegantly released the last one in time for me to squeeze it in. 2026 will start out with The Fall albums as a read-along with Steve Pringle’s book. I have a good chunk of them already but there will be some shopping required.

Evening all.

Good evening, all.

Go round the outside.

Congratulations Yorkshire, every last one of you.

I enjoy coming up with anagrams for “Spider-Man.” PS I’m a nerd.

I know he left The Stranglers a long time ago, but he’s still making headlines.

The actor Timothy Chaletmaid took his stagename from his love for unfulfilled 1980s uk sitcom characters.

I don’t want to brag but guess who won the House of Games fondue set, dartboard and this terrible trophy.

Excellent taste in gifts from my family.

Wishing you all a Super Christmas!

Good evening to all, this Gloucestershire sunset wishes you a very Merry Christmas. 🎄

The true meaning of Christmas.

To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

Memories of waking up to the news of Joe Strummer’s death on this day in 2002. I explained to my kids (9 and 11 at the time) why I was feeling so sad. There was a long pause and then one asked, “ What are they going to do with his Christmas presents?”

Tim Timebomb and Friends - Tim Armstrong and his buddies having fun with a bunch of covers.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

@artofthero.bsky.social Bloody archivists trying to start some trouble:

I quit Twitter a while back and deleted Threads off all my devices last week so you guys are my home team. Merry Christmas and thanks for the company. 🤜🤛 www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

I was going to spin a few more 2025 favourites tonight but as soon as this finished, I had to flip it over and play it again. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green

It's #buyastrangerabook day & @melissaschuh.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a book. So if you'd like a book but aren't sure what, let Melissa know the kinda stuff you like reading. She will then give you a choice of 4 books. Pick your favourite & Melissa will pay for it! UK only GO!

Instead of a waterbed I got two hydrogen beds and an oxygen bed.

Christmas tractor run. I love this tradition - 80-100 tractors all lit up for Christmas driving right past our front gate. Great fun. Video in next post.

Just finished Vanity Fair for the first time and surprised to find that I knew the penultimate sentence by heart - “Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?” As quoted by Ian Dury in This Is What We Find. Never knew.

Refining my 2025 album of the year list with three fine candidates: - Mogwai - The Bad Fire - House of All - House of All Souls (now with 50% more drummers) - Nightingales - The Awful Truth @mogwai.scot @houseofall.bsky.social @nightingalesuk.bsky.social

Wow, just wow.

Douglas Adams years ahead of the zeitgeist, as always.

But the thing is: you can go for all your cancer screenings (and I always have) - mammograms, cervical smears, two colonoscopies to check and biopsy polyps - but none of these screens for ovarian cancer. So know your symptoms. 4/4

There’s a lot of very good stuff about cancer screening in the news at the moment - but I just wanted to remind you all that there is no routine screening for ovarian cancer. Therefore it’s really important that we know the symptoms so you can ask your GP if you think you might have it. 1/?

May I suggest that now would be a good time to pick up a @robinince.bsky.social book while you’re doing your Christmas shopping. One of the good guys - and a book lover.

Splendid night out with The Icicle Works. I’ve always loved them and their songwriting, but did not expect them to rock quite that hard.

@simonwoodgate.bsky.social I guess I arrived too early. I guess I’ll see The Icicle Works instead.

"And that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE LAUNCH! I'm doing a raffle. Tickets are just £2 each! You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend. More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools. TWO POUNDS. More here. www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex... Please share.

You will be visited by three spirits:

🎵I bet that you'd look good in a bookstore, I don't know if you're looking for a romance, I don't know what you're looking for. I said, I bet that you look good in a bookstore, looking for a book like "I Robot", or "1984". Or "1984".🎵

I had a dream last night where this guy paid me in £2, £4 and £8 notes. When I asked why he was using these odd denominations he replied, “So you’ll realise that it’s a dream.”

Not wishing to brag but I assume FIFA will be sending me my Best Sleeper trophy soon? Unless anyone hit the perfect 100, of course.

July Talk: - July Talk (2013) - Touch (2016) This Canadian outfit has a blistering live show driven by the chemistry between the two singers, Pete (who sounds like Tom Waits after gargling gravel) and Leah (who sounds like a songbird on a spring morning). The rest of the band are solid too.

The absolute fucking state of this tho. I just wanted to see a retired footballer pulling ping pong balls out of a vase tbhwy. #WC26

Whilst it’s good to point out that this creep is a lifelong racist let’s not forget that he is also a Russian stooge

New House of All album on the way? Yes, please. Just realised I was too excited and ordered before Bandcamp Friday - sorry guys.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

I’ve just come across the BBC and @chrisgpackham.bsky.social’s Inside Our Minds. Stunning television and many familiar touchpoints. I gotta a lot of thinking to do (as always).

It’s Black Friday, or as it’s known since it went solo, Frankday Black.

Moose is one of the most consistent sources of smiles on social media today.