Kemi Badenoch on Radio 4 making me feel all punchy...

Remembering Sandy Denny on her birthday youtu.be/gvdr_kilrw4

Fecking snow...😖

So, I just popped into Waterstones to browse... 😬

Oh God, I appear to have ordered far too much vinyl, again...😭 I'm beginning to think vinyl addiction is far more subtle and insidious than some other much more obvious additions... Vinyl addicts anonymous should be a 'thing'...😶

Another of those films that I was barely aware of this morning and consider an all-time great by evening: The Small Back Room boxd.it/cryDrd

open.spotify.com/album/29vFia... ❄️❄️❄️💙💙💙

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Albert Camus died in a car crash on January 4, 1960, in a rare sports car, a Facel Vega FV3B, owned & driven by his friend & publisher Michel Gallimard, who died 5 days later.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

youtube.com/watch?v=S803... Mark Hollis #botd 🖤🖤🖤

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." Albert Camus

Suddenly have a mad desire to buy a chaise lounge but have nowhere to put it unless I get rid of something else... The only feasible candidate is the piano, and there's no way that's going...😶

Soon does one learn the bitter lesson that humanity is never content just to differ from you and let it go at that. Never.

Currently thinking about that legendary Frankie Boyle bit about the US military and how they will not only invade your country and kill all of your people but then they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad

Any minute now Starmer will be condemning the U.S. aggression. Any minute now.

Honestly, I am bone tired of seeing, hearing, and hearing about, poundland Musolini...

He's basically just robbed a country of its oil...

Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake

WARNING! The AA have warned that anyone travelling in present conditions should take blankets/sleeping bag, extra clothing (including scarf, hat and gloves), 24 hour supply of food and water, torch, spare battery and a first aid kit. I felt like a right twat on the bus!

Afternoon garden visitor...💙

Big blue skies on the hills this morning

I've been busy...👩‍🍳🥧 Last dinner with two friends tonight, before one goes away for 6 weeks and the other has an ankle operation... No more get togethers for a couple of months...😭

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Good morning...x Have an obligatory snow photo...❄️

Listening to David Sylvian and working my way through a bottle of Prosecco... Start the year as you mean to go on I say... 💀🥂

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is officially mayor of New York City

Well, so far 2026 is just as shit as 2025...😬

youtu.be/aPikJ9r7-3w?... Last day of the year...🖤

For some reason there's nothing funnier than my friend complaining about dealing with his extended family... They arrived for NY this afternoon and I've been getting a running text commentary since... I wish he'd stop, I'm not used to laughing this much anymore...😬

I'm a priest dealing with witches...

Back in Redditch performing my filial duties... I swear, if 2026 isn't the year I become at least 50% an orphan I will eat my boots... I really, really am not enjoying this phase of my life one little bit... You can keep middle aged, it's shit...

Every single time we're in the car the smell of weed comes in through the vents at some point... I don't want to sound like an old fart, but ffs... Only 5 years ago you didn't get this...😶

Top tip... If anyone ever wants to get rid of me, just play Richard Dawson and I will leave immediately...

On so many people’s best of for the year and rightly so, it’s brightened up so many days for me! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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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