Wimsey, please don't headbump my glass of Coke while I'm drinking it.

Somebody is using the outdoor cat house I set up for the boys, because the blanket is squished down and covered in fluff. But considering my two continue to come in soaking wet, I'm pretty sure it's not them!

Sadly, travelling £££ class continues to be vastly better for my poor shattered spine. Although I think it's cheaper, proportionally, to fly first class than catch the train, unless you manage to catch one of the two affordable tickets they sell.

Twelve days until my next holiday.

The High Life musical was SO GOOD. Alan Cumming was, inevitably, delightful. "This is like when I was hosting the BAFTAs and nobody told me what the fuck was going on." And lovely to hear him sing with a Scottish accent - particularly when rhyming solo, Polo, YOLO and Rolo!

@floweringc.bsky.social At this point, I guess you aren't coming. If you are, message me and I'll send you your ticket's QR code.

@floweringc.bsky.social I'll be outside the theatre at 7pm

I miss Indian trains. I want to lie down with a pillow and a cosy blanket.

Various Types of Women

I booked a stupidly early train tomorrow so I'd have time to look round the Britannia Panopticon in Glasgow, and it's SHUT for their AGM. Any suggestions on how to kill a couple of hours in Glasgow?

Gold, bronze, brown, blue, green, white

@floweringc.bsky.social Seeing as bloody Blue sky won't let us DM each other, do you want to drop me an email? [email protected]

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

Hurry up, Saturday! youtu.be/DCuhFyO50wI?...

Folks, if one of your co-workers is great, email their boss to explain why. It takes seconds, costs nothing, and gets them noticed as being exceptional which is handy for raises and promotions.

Out of context Susan Calman: "I'm not saying that dick's not fantastic but it wasn't my favourite." (Talking about the film Carry On Dick, of course.)

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Hello, yes, I would like Nadiya Hussain to be prime minister, please.

We’ll rarely see it but “Poor vetting by X party cost UK councils £Y amount” is a nice snappy headline.

Every 'paper candidate' elected as a councillor who turns out to be ineligible, gets binned, or runs away when they realise the work involved, presumably triggers a by-election which is going to cost that local authority serious money. I think their party should be invoiced. Applied to all parties.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

Y2K.

My computer would connect to the router but couldn't get internet. Router had internet. Phone had internet through the router. As a network engineer, I ran various tests, restarted the network adapter, pings, traceroutes, checked the log on the router. Nothing.

Not to brag, but I just parallel parked absolutely perfectly - with PEOPLE WATCHING. People watching who owned the cars I was parking between. Damn, I'm good.

Three weeks until my holiday. I have my boarding pass and luggage tags printed and ready to go. LET ME GO ON HOLIDAY.

Octopussy.

I cannot emphasise too strongly how much I don't want to go to work today.

I was trying to hold off reading Platform Decay until my holiday, but that was never going to happen.

I'm now the proud owner of a Level 2 Award in the Principles of Fire Safety. If you need someone to set off a fire extinguisher in a car park, I'm your bod.

A pneumatic goblet designed by Ismail al-Jazari in the 13th century. When the goblet is filled with wine, the duck on top begins to scream and rotate before stopping with its beak pointed at a random partygoer. It doesn't stop screaming until the chosen person has drained the goblet completely.

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

What I forgot about being on call on a bank holiday is that I get alerts for ALL P1s, not just the ones with OOH cover, because our monitoring solution is crap. And, no, we don't have a list of which customers I actually need to care about, because that would be useful.

Bucket-list items I have achieved: -Seeing tigers in the wild -Crewing a tall ship across the Atlantic Items I have not achieved: -Setting off a fire extinguisher But I'm doing fire marshal training on Wednesday which SHOULD include using a fire extinguisher!

It's for ordering lunch-sized amounts of breakfast foods.

I'm craving chole bhature.

Trying (and failing) to explain to Bunter that he's too wet for cuddles, and it's how own fault for not going into his little cat house when it started raining.

I remember coming home from the pub, and throwing all my clothes straight into the washing machine, then having to shower and wash my hair before bed because I STANK from the people smoking around me.

This Mesolithic amber figurine from Denmark is conclusive proof that The Wombles were around long before the 70s.

In the DS9 episode Take Me Out to the Holosuite, they made Rom left handed because his actor, Max Grodenchik, played baseball in college and in the minor leagues. He couldn't make his body play baseball badly, so they had him play with his off hand so Rom could be convincingly bad at the game.

Oh no

The trouble with Cunard having given me free upgrades on my past two cruises is that now I'll be disappointed if I don't get an upgrade on the next one.

The problem with being woken up at 5am for a fault that takes ten minutes to fix is that the cats are ALSO woken up. And they have no concept of "going back to sleep".

Power, power, everywhere But nowhere to plug in my fucking laptop. (I'm in the data centre. Not a single three-pin AC power socket to be found.)

I think I owe @mitchbenn.bsky.social royalties for the amount of times Glam On A Budget has played inside my head today.

I cannot wait to wear this dress. @oriharakaoru.bsky.social

I was having a lovely snooze in the back garden, until 5kg of cat descended rapidly from the 6' garden wall to my midriff. Swine.

20 days until my next holiday.