I could have happily gone the whole of the rest of my life without hearing the sentence “Elphabas sex cardigan”. Still, good name for someone’s punk band.

Me (observing my Velcro cat falling asleep): I wonder where the line is between needing to sleep soundly and needing to sleep on me? Husband: she loves you. I’d fall asleep on you if I could. Cat: *starts wobbling furiously from all the laughing*

I wonder if the Kit Kats etc will survive into the next generation of fandom?

Sometimes you can really tell it’s not humans writing this. I really need to find a proper Welsh course.

If you are ever tempted to think that nail polish base coats are unnecessary I’m here to tell you that I accidentally used top coat and so far (in two days) three nails are chipped and one peeled off entirely when I scratched my leg. I did such a neat job too… 😩

I feel like my brain is blowing bubbles. Pressure changes, random gravity shifts, sounds suddenly echoing then just as suddenly muffled. Still, at least it’s having fun. Anyway I’ve been a bit quieter, not even knitting as much. That’ll be why.

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The moment of absolute disorientation you have when someone with a family members name follows you and you have to check they haven’t changed careers and started a podcast while you weren’t looking 🤣🤣🤣

enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted IG community_clothing and campaignforwool

One physio appointment and two phone calls (one awesome, one not so) this time. My uncle, a guy who monologues to Olympic standards, found me a bit quiet in a conversation this morning. Anyway, please don’t expect wit for a while.

Evri is such a shit company. Just had a delivery guy lie to my face that he didn’t try to deliver a parcel - presumably because he’d already sent the email on his walk to the next house after giving me exactly 4 seconds to get to the door. You know it’s shitty punitive timing policies driving it. 🤬

it's so important to have one cat who never leaves your side for one moment and another cat who just yells at you for food

This final round table is like watching puppies kick puppies #Traitors

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Everything I’m seeing about Game Of Wool suggests that the makers know nothing and care even less about knitting and 🧶 craft in general. Also that they fail to both learn lessons from other similar shows and adjust their format to meet their casts personalities. Bleh. Not going to bother.

It was a very pretty twilight this evening so I went out to look. I ended up having a conversation with a spider who had built her web across the path - congratulating her on her efforts & warning of the danger, husbands eyesight not stretching to spiderwebs. I’m not the only one like this, surely?

There are fireworks going off in one of the gardens nearby, but something tells me my efforts to de-terrorize loud noises with the cats have paid off. Now if we could just make her less afraid of the postie.

This old curmudgeon has been listening long enough to be confident that every musical generation produces great music, mediocrity, and trash in every genre. We all just have problems agreeing on which is which, since taste is so relentlessly subjective.

In important news though. I have listened to the whole of Everybody Scream. Oh my god.

I watched a reviewer of Good Boy ask why it wasn’t a cat and I can answer that. I just told my cat that if she saw anything spooky to scream and run and to not even think about coming to help me. The look on her face was interpreted by my husband as “of course not - that’s a You problem.”

That’s actually reassuring as I’ve never managed to work out where I fit.

Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues

I used to block trolls and misogynists. Bluesky is apparently so refreshingly free of these menaces that my block/mute response has transferred to AI posters, people who ask “does anyone still use this site?”, joy policers and poets (but that’s my phobia, not the poets fault). #blessed

Minority representation on TV causes outrage Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Every child should live in a safe, decent & secure home. Awaab's Law - requiring landlords to fix dangerous hazards in social housing - is a momentous piece of legislation & will save young lives. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I get the feeling there’s a sportsball game running a bit long somewhere…

We’re at three for three on the absolute bangers with the new Florence & The Machine album.

Just saw a comment on insta saying the reason they (some men) don’t like tattoos on women is because you generally have to be 18 to get them.

Same with benefits in the UK. The vast majority of people claiming benefits either cannot work (children, the elderly and the disabled) or ARE ALREADY WORKING and the companies are paying dividends and CEO wages letting the government fund their employees survival.

None of us argue in good faith any more. We’re either so keen to be arguing that we don’t even realise we share the same basic views and keep bitching around in circles. Or we’re too busy going for the gotcha we twist and misinterpret every word regardless of obvious intent. Ugh.

If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff. But it’d be cool if it talked, right?

I hope it works.

So Reform didn't win in Wales. In fact it wasn't even close in the end. Turn out was just over 50%. More than most council elections. Suggests there is definitely a ceiling to Reform support, but their supporters are motivated to vote. But if enough people turn out they can be defeated anywhere!

For all those who need it, here is the softest kitty belly, and the cutest little feet, courtesy of Harley.

They’re so terrible they’re amazing.

What good book when no read good? Man do action!

Most of the time I think I’m a fairly sane, sensible, intelligent woman. Then I look up and my vision is blurry and I think oh gods! Is it my brain? My eyes?!? My blood pressure?!?!? My fringe. My fringe was over my eyes.

More people need to watch The Fall. It's one of those amazing movies that comes out without much fanfare and somehow flies under the radar, never getting the attention it deserves.

stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

You can now turn off all the AI slop on Pinterest. PINTEREST WILL BE USABLE AGAIN!!!

Hubs talked to the pharmacist about plan to give it a week and try again - their advice was ‘no, that’s a really bad reaction, just don’t take it!’ It’s really nice to feel validated that what you are experiencing is yeah, not right. But now having to cope with no plan at all. Joy.

Our foot rest is broken so it took much of the morning to get the cat to lie on my legs up on the sofa, then far enough away that I could get my frame loom out and finally do some weaving. I’m mostly pleased with the results. Need a squishier main weft colour. (Copied from an image on Pinterest).

One single tablet of new medication and I’m getting shudders in my chest, nausea and cold patches all over me. I’ve come to terms with the fact that the “Pain Management” clinic had decided to ignore the pain and manage my mood - I just didn’t realise the goal mood was hacked off and miserable.

Brava.

Attempting to fix the loom whilst one cat gets the zoomies and the other decides (loudly) that it’s treat o’clock. Those cozy family evenings eh?

Yeah, ok, there’s a real problem with jokes flying right over the heads of people who really need to tell you about it. But why is it always the guys with the mid to achingly-unfunny jokes who are whining about it?

Idly looking for a halo for Halloween - why does this tickle me as much as it does? WHAT CHOICES LED TO THIS? 😂

I just got an email from ‘the seervice representataive’ of my photo storage company, telling me that my photos were about to be deleted- all in lower caps with no punctuation, in the header bar. Come on guys, you’ve got to at least fucking TRY.