Apparently, if you were extremely beautiful and had a good arse in your youth, people will mourn you when you die in old age, despite the fact you were a fascist cow for most of your life...🤷‍♀️

RIP to Brigitte Bardot, sixth best singer to collaborate with Serge Gainsbourg, but definitely the one most convicted for repeatedly inciting racial hatred.

Early visit from my neighbour's cat, Lulu... Cuddles and much purring...💙

How I'm walking out of 2025...

Ah, my neighbour is out the back having a bonfire... Life is returning to normal post Christmas...🙏

Somehow Scott feels right atm...🖤 #nowplaying

“None of us can guess how the Trump assault on the BBC will play out, because he wields unprecedented power, unchecked by personal dignity or decency.” No. We can’t. But we can condemn forever the repulsive British politicians and media gobshites who would side with him instead of us.

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Hey #FilmNoir folks in the UK! Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson and a really bad wig; Double Indemnity (1944) has just started on #BBCTWO. But you can catch up on it on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Bit more cheese

US Carries Out Air Strikes On Epstein Files

I'm from a working class background and I was called 'A Tory' because I read books...

Just caught up with the Christmas Day Inventory... This one is free, so I highly recommend reading... Another lovely, thoughtful and moving piece by @iammilliam.bsky.social 🙏💙

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

If you’re struggling today, ‘Bringing Up Baby’ is on iPlayer.

I have this problem all the time because I cook a lot anyway, but, cooking Christmas dinner when you wear glasses is hilarious... Every time you open the oven door your glasses completely steam over...👓😁

New Christmas episode up now! Asterix and the Roman Agent - and LOADS more Asterix books - with Louie Stowell, Robert Shearman, Una McCormack & Andy Miller. 🎄📚🎅 @robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6mIn...

BBC Radio 4 Extra - A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas share.google/7Pzkyro0MOcR... On air now... Happy Christmas, everyone...💙x

A Christmas Greeting to my followers here and to a better New Year: card originally published from by Merivale Editions from. my line drawing ink on paper

Profound Silence: watercolour from Fetes Galantes

"They looked towards the hilltop and saw a yellow flame rising against the sky. Too-ticky had lit the bonfire. It wrapped itself in flames at once, from ground to top, it gave a roar like a lion and threw its reflection straight down on the black ice" Moominland #Midwinter, Tove Jansson

Winter definitely seems darker and more depressing this year... 💀

Yes. #vinyl #records

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This... I'm always very polite and smiley with my postie because he does a stirling job delivering my endless stream of vinyl...🙏💙 Their job is a nightmare this time of year... Be nice!!!

Off to my parents' house soon... Last minute food shopping for them 💀 cleaning their house, checking they have enough meds... Coming home and drinking a vat of gin...💀💀💀

What an interesting thread. And what a talented chap @slipperyjack.bsky.social is!!

youtu.be/u6WLdFV4mQA?... Night...x

My friend just rescued a cat who had been in a hoarder’s house and then in a shelter’s cage for five months. Came home today. I haven’t wanted to hug something more in my entire life than I want to hug Bob.

My work colleague asked me to text her when the Christmas meat hampers arrived at work. Turns out I took her number down wrong and I have sent a really ominous text to a stranger

It's been a while, but I've dug out Bergman's, Fanny and Alexander to watch on Christmas Eve... It is the right time of year after all...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Oh, this is wonderful... In the tradition of ghost stories for Christmas...💀🎄 Be a perfect re-listen for late night Christmas Eve...🖤

A Life cover by Bill Ray: Jane Fonda, April 23, 1971

Jane Fonda by Willy Rizzo Paris, 1963

David Hurn's photograph of Jane Fonda in Barbarella garb Rome, 1967

More Jane Fonda Barbarella in celebration of her birthday today 🎂 📷 David Hurn, Rome, 1967

Jane Fonda in another Paco Rabanne costume for Barbarella 📷 David Hurn, 1967 "A week into the gig Hurn’s cameras, including Leicas, were stolen. They re-appeared two days later, however, replaced in a secret act of generosity by Fonda." - Tara Godvin

Tony: Kids don't sing Carols on spec these days. They wanna see the colour of your money before they start. They've got a price list round here. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, half a dollar. We Three Kings of Orient Are, shilling a verse or five verses for 3/6d!

Thinking of applying Oblique Strategies cards to mundane Christmas tasks e.g. Where should I buy the sprouts?

Well, much like Margo Leadbetter my Christmas has just been delivered in a van... God bless Ocado...😬

Will always stop what I’m doing to listen to this; much to the chagrin of a dog who is already alarmed at how late the morning walk has become.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... 🖤🖤🖤

Bed and a book for me... Night...x

This is the way 🖤🖤✨✨ From Teaandrosemary IG

Andrew's not wrong!

youtube.com/watch?v=jWR2... Morning...💜xx

Animals are better than we are, aren't they? They're not all the time pretending and lying and sneering, like loathsome human beings.

Came home today to vinyl postal deliveries...💙

12/19/1968: Lindsay Anderson's audacious If... Malcolm McDowell debut got Kubrick's attention More: @davidbuckingham1.bsky.social: davidbuckingham.net/growing-up-m... @honorszombie.bsky.social: www.bkmag.com/2017/04/05/n... Harvey/ @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-bu...