Wanted to know what it would be like to go on a wacky Japanese gameshow so I went for a piss on a moving National Express coach

I don't think there's been one five minute block this week where I haven't thought about having a nap

Made a hat with actual Aran wool from the actual Aran Islands

They will never attribute autism to something that Dads do. Or some shortfall in public services or environmental standards. They will wonder aloud with no evidence or bad evidence, blaming stuff they already dislike, and somehow always manage to stay in their "mum's fault" lane.

Once I finished making my blanket, I baked a cake for a friend's birthday lunch. While there, I picked apples from their garden. The apples are in the slow cooker now, getting turned into chutney. Autumn is so magical.

Digging, weeding, planting - thanks to Penny, Steve, Jordan, Val, Liss, Chi, Margaret, Peter, Matt, Lucy and Nadev! Also thanks to Sylvia for donating bulbs which were duly planted this morning. 🌱Glorious morning but next time we'll chose to pose somewhere where we're not squinting or in shadow!

Just finished the Six (Fourteen) Day Star Blanket

Finished my latest blanket (pictures to follow). Next project: a hoodie. Protect ya neck.

The bespoke needle-punch rug that has cost hundreds of pounds and I've been 'working on' for three years has been silently sobbing in the corner since I whipped this scrap yarn baby up in two weeks

Guy Garvey's voice is the distillation of a rainy Sunday afternoon

Googling lyrics in the age of AI has a different cadence

Brother's birthday yarn bowl smashed in the post; they're sending a new one; I fixed the old one for myself; had to share it on a social media that my bro isn't on

Finding British crafters on YouTube by judging the teeth in the thumbnail, like a 17th century duke trying to find a wife

Thanks to Jordan, SteveM, Chi, Bridget, Liss, Andrea, Peter (withFoxy), Ann and Sam for lots of work in the Chinese garden this morning. It was a hot one!

Schrödinger's house

Scored as I was plugging in my HDMI cable and the screen was turning on; you're all welcome

Thanks to Steve, Jordan, SteveM, Penny, Matt, Liss, Chi, Colin and Rob for this morning’s session. Brambles cleared, paths widened, planting and, of course, litter picking in the Japanese Garden!

Jim Corbett:

Happy 150th birthday to the GOAT. Jim Corbett: hunter of man-eating leopards and tigers in the foothills of the Himalayas, turned conservationist and photographer

Listening to this, the last of *209* albums from the selected discography of Ruy Castro's history of bossa nova. No idea what I'm meant to listen to now while I walk along the Mersey in the morning pretending I'm in a film. É o fim do caminho.

Thanks to Jordan, SteveM, Val, Penny, Liss, Peter, Chi, Vanessa, Ian, Kris, Bridget, David, Safeer and Matt for weeding and clearing this morning in the Festival Gardens!

I'm loosely planning a thread on Nanda Devi, the Himalayan mountain with whom I've fallen head over heels in love. But with each week I discover another book to read, and I'm now looking at learning Hindi. It's either the affair of a lifetime or I've mentally illed myself into latent spirituality

Thanks to Jordan, Penny, Val, Ann, Liss, SteveM and Bridget this morning- lots of weeding in the Chinese garden and main entrance. Hot 🥵 work!

Inside you there are two wolves

somebody at the beeb is sending an SOS to the world

Thanks Steve, Jordan, Penny, Steve M, Liss, Chi, Fionnuala, Peter with Foxy, Ann, Val and Leo this morning, working around the cascade! Of course, we spent half an hour fixing plants pulled up and damage in the Japanese Garden before we even started! What a team!

As of today I am only halfway to 68 years old, and yet sitting on the sofa with my crochet and watching Michael Palin is all I have wanted

Guys, this is great and all but they're having MUCH more fun on twitter

me after seeing Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew tonight

You know you're on the train to Manchester when you hear somebody say 'it's the largest municipal park in Europe'

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers - Steve, Jordan, Penny, Lucy, Nad, Rob, Donna, Steve M, Chi, Liss, Bridget and Fionnuala-this morning around the cascade and Chinese pagoda.

Oh, the humidity!

Thanks to Steve, Jordan, Ann, Val, Penny, Chi, Bridget, David, Steve M, Ian, Peter with Foxy and Liss for this morning’s many activities round and about! 🌷

With the help of a youtube video flipper (it's a left-handed thing), and a lackadaisical approach to the bottom right corner, I just crocheted my first granny square.

Five years ago my horrible old housemate played me this song, after which Spotify autoplayed Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man, and I listened to Head Hunters on repeat for a fortnight

Great turnout and work in the play area - thanks to Steve, Jordan, Penny, Bridget, Steve M, Liss, Kris, Chi, Peter, Nadev, Lucy, Rob, Mark, Bruno, Lucy and Lars! #FestivalGardens @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social

Sometimes a headline can be so good that it actively puts you off reading the article

I'm pleased that my food colouring is food grade

All the snooker coverage is like: This is Zhao Xintong, who could be the first Asian world champion! And this is a crumbling wreck of a man, Mark "Bog Body" Williams, somehow still plodding along, the oldest person we have ever seen, all 50 years of him

Thanks to Steve, Jordan, Chi, Penny, Emma, Liss, Steve M and not pictured, Bridget, Ann, Peter with Foxy, Asha, Hannah & Jess for their work around the Moon Wall, steps and Japanese Garden. Great work everyone!

Unearthed some treasure at the Festival Gardens. Best before December 2001. They don't make em like they used to!

New low: putting the brightness down on my phone so strangers don't see me swiping Bumble in my glasses reflection while I stand on my own waiting for the band to come on.

Day three: I'm no longer convinced that this is a perk. With each iteration of the roast, elements fall by the wayside and are forgotten like a culinary Russian Doll

Perks of living alone: I'm on night two of a three-night roast dinner bonanza

I feel all the time like a cat in the hat tin roof

Helped out with this lovely lot, made a roast, watched Rugrats Passover, sunbathed in the park, napped for two hours. 10/10 Easter.

Finished an American-authored book about mountaineering which pivots masterfully in its epilogue from the British ascent of Everest, the German failings on Kangchenjunga, and the US defeat by K2... to reminding us that at least the USA put the first man on the moon.

Just off to forge in the smithy of my soul (ie. have a nap on the sofa)