I know you didn’t ask but we had a rotten Christmas I’m afraid. Two days after hitting Anglesey for an idyllic getaway the dog had 4 seizures in 10 hours. Never shown any signs before so we understandably crapped ourselves and spent the week in and out of emergency vets. 1/2

@efsb.bsky.social I hear your prayers have been answered

This house believes that people only pretend not to like Christmas cake to make themselves seem a bit more interesting.

Ten years today since Lemmy went, rest his rock n roll soul.

I only like two premier league sides and Aston Villa are one of them so I enjoyed that. Be nice if Everton won a few more.

Good lord I mean I have no problem with the UK Subs but what on earth have they found to fill 26 CDs?

Let’s face it they could have just printed Stoke 0 Preston 0 in the listings this morning.

When I hear the words ‘Stoke versus Preston on Boxing Day’ this match is exactly what springs to mind except not as cold thanks to climate change.

December 24th 1945. A child is born in Stoke on Trent, England. Peace on Earth.

Happy birthday Hanoi Jane. And Frank Zappa but to be fair he’s no longer with us and he never looked this good.

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Merry nearly-Christmas from Anglesey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I really like David Byrne’s song about his T-shirt but bloody hell 6 Music are hammering it a bit.

Can’t wait for people to hear our new album The Velvet Underground & Nico & Mogwai

Quite. Little Britain was the nastiest, most route-one celebration of playground bullying and I couldn’t believe anyone was still churning that shite out in the twenty-first century.

Sub-Pop are closing their store at the airport in Seattle which will have exactly zero impact on my life but still makes me a bit sad because it was such a cool idea.

Radio Stoke posted on Facebook that the Potteries Shopping Centre has new owners and I gave up reading the comments after the first twenty all seemed to think that it’s about to be filled with asylum seekers 😳

Tell you what the co-op bank haven’t wasted any time cutting their interest rates. Any faster they’d get fucking whiplash.

The last Friday before Christmas (ie today) was always the day we put our decorations up. Usually it was also the day school broke up for the holidays. Then down again on twelfth night. Sounds a bit Spartan now. Although not as Spartan as no decorations at all which is what we do now.

Local ‘spoons has been heaving since 9am. Happy Black Eye Friday y’all 👊🏼

Old Putin’s a boy innit. Got a nerve talking about ‘stolen’ assets.

You’re my best mates, you are 🍻🤪

But what about the testaments of Burslem, Longton or Tunstall? #lamepotterieshumour

I won’t bore you with my top ten albums of 2025 because they’re all by the usual suspects who’ve been going for a hundred years. Which isn’t to say they’re not great. Honourable exceptions include Geese. Yes I know it’s too cool for school and all that but it’s a wonderfully satisfying record.

Hell of a game for the neutral, Brian.

Listening to a Cardiacs album from 2025 and it’s great. I’ll have to go and listen to some of their others from the past 40-odd years that I’ve somehow never got round to.

A rare goal for Ben Pearson today and an absolute pinger. As he hit it I’m sure I’m not the only Stoke fan who could hear him thinking “why does nobody ever just have a fucking go?”

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Primal Scream at Trentham in August cancelled a whole nine hours after tickets went on sale today. Is this a record? That’s somebody trousering a whole bunch of booking fees for doing fuck all. Don’t worry I hadn’t bought any.

Einstein 1915. The General Theory of Relativity. What a genuinely breathtaking work of art.

Weird how Hüsker Dü records always sound so quiet when seeing them live was like being at some mad atom bomb test.

The Gumbo Variations by Frank Zappa. I’d put it on every time I visited the Old Brown Jug in Newcastle. At nearly 17 minutes it represented excellent value for 50p.

Just seen Man Utd’s goal. Not often you get Keystone Kops defending and Keystone Kops attacking at the same time.

Chucks in a bit of White Riot as an afterthought.

Only just dawned on me that I’m basically the same age as Rubber Soul. I wish I’d aged half as well.

This is the best Leeds-Liverpool thing since the canal.

Charlotte waving from a psychedelically coloured hill just outside Gatehouse of Fleet.

the cunt of noncey crypto

Very sorry to hear that the Charlton supporter involved in the emergency today didn’t make it. RIP Norm 😢

“It’s oh so nice to go travelling, but it’s so much nicer to come home” sang Frank Sinatra. Having just got back to Stoke after a few days in Dumfries & Galloway I’d agree with Frank that it’s oh so nice to go travelling.

Calling it now Scotland 0 Haiti 0.

Alan Turing couldn’t crack this fucking World Cup draw.

The big googly eyes on this bugger 😂

Spagged out in Scotland. No pets on the furniture please.

Midwinter beach action at Brighouse Bay.

Many happy returns to my Sagittarian sister Viv Albertine and my birthday brother Wild Billy Childish ❤️🎂🎉🍻🎂❤️

Greetings from sunny south-west Scotland where we’ve come to celebrate a big birthday for me tomorrow. They’ve even declared a special Scottish bank holiday in my honour. Officially they claim it’s because St Andrew’s day has fallen on a Sunday but I think we know the truth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The only reason I think Your Party isn’t performance art funded by Nigel Farage is that he doesn’t know what performance art is.

Billy posing with his light show counterpart at Trentham yesterday. Un-illuminated of course. Not paying silly money to come back in after dark.