Anyone know what I did yesterday cos I've already forgotten...

The old "⚠Invalid Handle" glitch seems to have made a return (seen a few profiles tagged with it today) so bringing this back...

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. ‘Marbles’ (1959) Artist: G Robinson

Getting fed up of our local lidl. Staff literally refused to open a till for the trolleys on the grounds they can self scan, all the trolley people suddenly found they weren't queueing to be served after all, then the scales wouldn't take the weight of their purchases.

It’s the Gail Sale! 50% OFF Christmas cards & wrap 20% OFF unframed prints Use code GAILSALE Ends 18 January 2026 www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

DLR delivers: Cutty Sark station gets new escalators via the tracks www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/dlr...

I just came across (while looking for something else entirely) a sentence by Eimar McBride that I wrote down ages ago, and which now seems… relevant: “While a picture may paint a thousand words, a thousand considered words are more powerful than a thousand misleading pictures.”

I am in Cambridge next month / tickets here www.junction.co.uk/events/robin...

Alena Dergileva

Well, what else could we mark on 29 December but the 97th anniversary of the birth of that gift to the world, Bernard Cribbins? (small🧵)

He once played Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at Oldham Rep, and told The Stage: “On the first night I took my T-shirt off and wiped myself down with it, and a man in the front row was sick” (but mostly I wanted to share this link for the preview image)

Mophead Hydrangeas. C. Lewis (Chen Tai-Yu)

Pothole claims up 90% in three years, says RAC

What a companionable trio of chaps Times Radio has scheduled across daytime this Betwixtmas. ...Considering putting my hair into a mohawk, to give me a bit of edge. Join me from 4pm, all this week 📻 times.radio

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

Well, I put it off for ages, but Four Seasons on Netflix is really good. Funny character stuff, but with some moving episodes that explore the big themes of middle-age. I really enjoyed this and am glad it’s getting a 2nd series

Hospitals warned end-of-life care crisis threatening treatment

On this day 29th December 1975 “Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK (Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)

Winter sale on West End theatre tickets for plays, pantos and musicals www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/win...

Tacky and chaotic Christmas decorations in an 1100 year old building be like...

Watching Hostages and frankly the Charlotte Richie character is reminding me of trying to get Donny to do anything.

Focusing on drinking enough water and getting some sunlight today, I’m basically just a houseplant who doesn’t know what day it is rn and that’s okay

Right now!

Richard Savoy

Mark Grantham (Canadian, born 1966) “Until Tonight [ Nova Scotia]” 2019 Acrylic on board

Just started reading The Pretender by Jo Harkin and it is perfection.

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Gusty Twilight’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

“Klaus” (just rewatched) is just such a good movie and better than so many superhero origin movies.

Woman on a bus: Last night my husband said 'You've got glitter in your hair.' I said 'No, I'm just going grey.' He said 'Well, it's lovely.

edgy

Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

Jef Bourgeau (American, b.1950) "The Stand," 2023

Dyschronometria — to have no concept of time.

The Churel

(Eyvind Earle)

Joe Tracini: Finding out I've got ADHD has saved my life

Pity the former head teacher is dead, would love to know why he made Farage a prefect despite the overwhelming case against him. I was taken aside at school by housemaster and told I couldn’t be a prefect because of my long hair and ear-ring.

“Hedge-banks and ditches are russet with the browns and yellows of the dead bracken fronds. The distant trees show mistily in the winter air” Writer: EL GrantWatson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

One thing to say: #AxeDrax www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

I see the Brexit-backing owner of Dyson, who offshored himself and the firm for tax reasons, is moaning about having to pay tax on the extensive farmland that he bought here as a way to avoid inheritance tax. Hang on. I'll find my violin.

I hope she stands her ground.

SO WISE

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Recommendations wanted again...I'm looking for British thrillers by women that are well written and ideally not a series. What should I be reading?

The modern world in old Ladybird. "Furniture of today" (1971) Artist: Robert Ayton The Story of Furniture

A perfect little ice crystal formed on the surface of our coffee ice cream

This is silly and probably unfair to the people of Hebden Bridge, but the first thing I always associate with the name of that town is this absolute classic, photographed at a mini-library in a nearby village (photo not my own):

Whitchurch boaters take stock after Llangollen Canal collapse