Anyone else doing #Drycember?

can’t believe Jared Kushner was unable to negotiate a meaningful and just peace with Putin

Surely it can’t be 37 years since Naked Gun was released.

The Christmas rehearsals begin.

The Bridlington Car Parking Tariff Challenge! Think you’ve got what it takes to outsmart the parking machine at Langdales Wharf? Want to discover which members of your family could qualify for Mensa this Christmas? #bridcarparkchallenge

The final #beeroftheyear #Drycember Who’s joining me?

Tomorrow I’ll be posting on Bluesky and the post will go viral. Keep your eyes peeled! #bridparking

Schindler’s lift.

In Dubai they don’t like ancient instruments of the Aborigines of Australia but..

Performing on the mean streets of Belper Sunday at 6.15pm as the town turns on its Christmas lights. Forecast to be a toasty 3 degrees - maybe time to dig out the fingerless gloves?

HSTs are alive and well and living in Scotland. Plaudits to the nonchalant guy who missed it.

I see Thunderbird V’s let itself go.

Astonishing to see the influence of Trump and Putin on the feeble minds of some Brits.

Ten points if you can #namethestation

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Just two tickets left for singer Jeanie Barton’s Christmas Special gig with the Belper Jazz Company on Sunday 7th December. The performance takes place in the warm and welcoming surroundings of No.28, Belper.

I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...

Dance like you’re down in the sewer… Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.

‘A Night In Tuna-isia’

‘My Funny Valen-Thai’ - what other tunes should the Belper Jazz Company be performing at its Food Festival Special gig today?

He stees you when you're stleeping.

Ten points if you can name the tune @thefastshow.bsky.social. An extra twenty points if you can name the composer…

Brizzle in the drizzle.

People love the work of the Stranglers but few are aware of their efforts to reunite people with their lost pensions…(currently worth in excess of £31bn).

“It rainin, duck gone” was my youngest daughter’s first ever sentence. ‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.

Someone threw a bottle of Omega-3 pills at me. Injuries were super fish oil.

Can you name that tune?

Greg Abate and the Belper Jazz Company headed up north Sunday to put on a show at Bakewell Town Hall. Lovely to get this email from a happy Peter about his experience of the show.

"Surely the clearest indication of the BBC's fundamental truthfulness and integrity is the number of known liars who wish to destroy it." Isabella Stone Sheffield

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Happy Days - Rattus return to The Black Bull, Gateshead, this Saturday to perform the music of the Stranglers live. Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.

“America needs to get back to the 2 and 4. At the moment it’s clapping on the 1 and 3.” Exceptional political analysis from US sax great Greg Abate who, thanks to @jocaulfield.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of performing with in Bakewell last night.

This guy, Mr Basu. He made such a difference to my family’s life as well Debbie’s. Not only an exceptional brain surgeon but he makes greeting cards too (but not at the same time): www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk/news/debbies...

“Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.”

Well done @coldwarsteve.bsky.social, bravo! 👏🏻

Whoever won the East Midlands Trains signage contract did so in spite of their elevator pitch.

Tough on folks traveling on their own. #amaximumof @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social

Steely Dan fans take note…

Not sure the staff and students of the Uni Of Nottingham’s Music Department will find these banners, prominently displayed next to their beloved facility, particularly ‘exciting’. The uni has just announced that undergraduate music courses are being suspended. Link to petition in comments. #tonedeaf

In the relatively short time I taught in the music department, I could see how much the students contributed to the city’s cultural richness. My thoughts are with those affected by this decision. Dreadful. bbc.in/47roVFF

Morning.

More of today’s wandering in #Derbyshire

The Cromford Canal, #Derbyshire

Down by the Cromford Canal this morning, #Derbyshire

As further information becomes publicly available, it is true, as many feared, the attacker lived in our City and boarded from Peterborough Station. I wish to say little more about this individual and instead focus on the stories of the superhuman actions 1/3 www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/new...

A sip at The Trip.