Finally, we have nearly made it. January the 92nd, the final working day of the month.

Friday

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Manchester is from Mars?

All out on the ice! It's a cold afternoon in 1610, and Hendrick Avercamp is there to paint it. He was born on this day in 1585.

Yeah, it is absolutely horrible out there 😬

"It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.” #Wodehouse

Just seen a dog that looked like Charles Darwin.

Delice de Bourgogne on toast is food fit for the Gods. A lower middle class version of spreadable cheese out of a tube on toast that was often my tea in my youth. The ingredients are much better but the resulting contentment is much the same 😊

Please share. 💔

Smoke these ungrateful pricks out. People going out of their way & putting their own lives in danger to rescue them AND being shown kindness by getting discounted hotel rooms ... but they still haven't paid. Gave a wrong number to contact them AND stole head torches. 🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1 million people: this thing happened 1 right wing nutter: no it didn't BBC journalist paid £350k a year: with varying reports, it is impossible to tell what's happened

Aonishiki back to back yushos! Incredible at just 21. He wins in a playoff against the often smiley & popular Atamifuji, who had his best ever tournament. Only 23 himself he has a lot of chances ahead (although i fear he is in a golden age of wrestlers with Onosato, Hoshoryu and Aonishiki). #sumo

Weird. I like it.

Excellent nominative determinism in accounting there #MuppetChristmasCarol

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

We are in the bedroom and have been for a while (no, not that). Wandered into the loving room to find all the lights still on and got to shout 'It's like Blackpool illuminations in here!' I could sense the spirit of my Dad appearing, Yoda like, in front of me smiling and nodding sagely.

Lol

Lol, Abi #sumo

Now is the time to fight for our values.

Hot cheese and onion oatcakes for tea. Perfect winter comfort food. Day off tomorrow so all set for the final 3 days of the Hatsu basho #sumo 🤘😊

Havershamblin'

If you missed the first two of these, I've set up a bundle for you to order all four of them in one go! It'll be sent out after the new two are released on 26th February, but you can pre-order now. - Michael bertsbooks.co.uk/product/mr-m...

US stocks staging a late afternoon recovery here, has he died?

Honestly, if we had someone rambling like that on a Teams call we'd just mute them and move on.

Take That's follow-up single wasn't quite so warmly received.

Ffs, Abi #sumo

Raiders of the Lost Ark is 45 years old this year and that upsets me on so many levels that we simply don't have time.

All food must go to the lab for testing…

Monday

I've just stumbled across this photo of a Korean lighthouse that's shaped like a pony so I'm showing it to other people straight away

#sumo today

Huge bowl of pasta for lunch. Having a lie down to recover. Life in your 50s is one giant social whirl.

Silents Synced is coming to the UK and Ireland this February. More info here: www.cinemalive.com/movie/sherlo...

Lady Glossop: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie: Well, I suppose it depends on who’s wife it was. A little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill. #Wodehouse

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn’t. #Wodehouse

This week seems to have lasted a fortnight

Winter in the Woods Tom Thomson 1916

Yesterday I had no internet for a few hours and ate an apple. It felt like an extremely minor insight into what it's like to live as a horse.

Nobel peace prize participation trophies - isn't this the kind of woke nonsense the GOP endlessly rant about?

Fujinokawa is having a great basho 😊 #sumo

Japan memories

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

Don't recall any calls for police chief resignations from the Daily Mail et al when the actions of South Yorkshire Police killed 97 people at Hillsborough in 1989 and then lied about it. No one died at Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv

🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit Wanna see? 🫣 New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...

Sad to see Kirishima lost today, he was looking good. Still, 4-1 is not too shabby. Can't believe Takanosha didn't win that bout. Fair play to Onosato, he was aware enough to pirouette and keep his foot just in, but Takanosho must have thought he had it! #sumo

Also the first recorded sighting of Feathers McGraw.