That's the wife's Crimbo pressie sorted!!

Have to be 200yds up the road in an hour for nosebag at friends. It'll be great when there but I have no enthusiasm for shaving, showering or the walking up the hill which might be the end of me. If not the stagger back will be fine if I don't walk into a🌲or a 🦡! We don't have street lighting!!🍷

Mrs. M's Mum, who went off on her jolly way in summer 2018, would have been 100 today. During the Blitz she did fire watch duty on her school roof, later worked at the bank of England before having two children & later became a JP. Here she is probably just before WW2 as a young teenager.

@debsgwinnell.bsky.social A change from the slippery ones today.

Crisis!! Bean to cup Delonghi machine is kaput. Expect I'll get the blame as I was the only one to use it today! 😧

Wife of No.2 son has tested + for C. They have a 7 week old. Dad is on PL. 🤞that he & granddaughter dodge the plague. 😱🦠😷

Popped out earlier to fill the bird feeders for the first time this autumn. Peanuts, seeds & fat balls. Dare I say it was balmy in the Garden of England? Hard to believe sleet is forecast here next Thursday! 🥶🌨️

From the later 1800s

The Boss made a pie!

Not looking good in Newark, NJ tonight. Afternoon there!

Wow

Another sign popped up in my FB memories today. Probably not a place for @norwegiannaturist.bsky.social to visit me thinks.

Dec 2019. The pup about 3 months old & the 10 year old cat sorting out the hierarchy. The old cat was superseded in 2021 by a new model.

I think, not long ago, @norwegiannaturist.bsky.social asked what our favourite signs were. This one just popped on my FB memories from 2023 taken on Pulau Ubin, a small island off Changi Point, Singapore Island.

Where has the big bloke in red turned up a little early?

Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.

Reform leader branded “captain chaos” as Kent fire authority in disarray www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/11...

It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.

There’s only two of us for lunch!! Leftovers for 2 year old grandson on Tuesday & soups for us all week?

Not had one of these in a decade or more. I like the occasional Guinness but prefer this. Cheers!

Reposted with ALT text 💔 By Siegfried Sassoon

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Any thoughts what this image is about?

In 2017 I found out I had Gt Gt Uncle who was killed in Apr'18 in France. The 1911 census listed him as a colliery painter. This year out of the blue I found a 3rd cousin who shared my Gt Gt Uncle. From her I discovered that he went to Adelaide around 1912. She had his sketch book of his travels.

This is in a village along the way from ours. Am I wrong to think it's not right? Or am I just an silly old curmudgeon?

I'm declaring tomorrow a hurkle durkle day. All welcome to join in. You're welcome! 🛌

Me: "Hey Google play Chrissie Hynde" Ms Google: "Ok playing Chrissie Hindi" Makes me snort every time. Why can't Lady Google say "Hynde"?

UPDATE: The two items of clothing I got her are going back. A given! Hippy hemp dog was ok mostly during the village school's fireworks last night. She was so chilled that when a barrage of bangs started later she didn't even give a little growl. What kind of gormless goons set off fireworks @ 0130?

Just fed the 🐶 some Vet's hemp & camomile sweeties. It's the village school's fire work night in an hour. She doesn't really stress over the bangs, barks a bit, growls & grumbles but I thought I'd try to chill her out a bit more. A waste of time & hemp probs. (Might give two to the Boss😅!) Me =🍷x 10

Youngest son in Utrecht had his Christmas come early today. He has a subsidised flat in a building that is due be demolished not because it's in a poor state but just a redevelopment thing. He was due to be out at the end of January. The date has been put back to end of July. He's a very happy 🐇!!!

Sky News online: 🤔

Which one is more English?

Hope that you're on the mend @proseccoscot.bsky.social! Do you need more Kleenex & malt?

Been looking at flights to Hanoi and back from Ho Chi Minh for next September @fatimad.bsky.social & @stuartscarisbrick.bsky.social How sad am I? 🙏

Bought Mrs. M two clothing items which have arrived today while she's out lunching. What's the betting both go back?

(In The Guardian today) I don't recall ever having a panic attack but if I was in that mass of humanity I think I might. 😱

Youngest, 27, went to uni in Utrecht in 2019 & we said that we'd part fund him (he worked part-time) & pay his travel when he came home but only til he graduated in 2022. He's coming home for a w'end soon & again for a few days at Xmas. Yep, you guessed it!✈️ Be glad when he finishes his Masters!!👨‍🎓

7 wk old granddaughter off to the cinema for the 2nd time since landing. Baby & Parent showing of the Boss Nebraska thing.🎥🎬🍿

Reform UK lose out as Lib Dems take 53% of the vote in Tunbridge Wells council by-election www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-we...

They don't know how to spell do they @proseccoscot.bsky.social?

Odd? There's been a few whizz bangs in the village since Saturday. Not a peep so far tonight at 6.17pm. Waiting for the dads to come home? (Bit sexist I know! Sorry)

Chances of seeing a Big Beaver in Kent tonight? NIL!!!!

Or put another way "29 things you don't need at all!"