Just found the Blackadder Season 2 DVD [cracks open a bottle of wine]

Flood - Little Simz I Am (Reborn) - Greentea Peng Dancing With the Europeans - Suede Half a Lifetime - My Morning Jacket Time Attacks - Swervedriver

The ritual Christmas folding of the wrapping paper as the presents are opened so it fits in the bin. Hope you're doing lots of folding. Have a cool Yule, y'all 🎄🎁⭐

An alternative universe Polar Express where Tom Waits does the Tom Hanks bits. Who's with me?

The Kylie Minogue Toppermost from @riverboatcapt.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/minogue-kylie/

Why is it always the busiest Christmas getaway on record?

You're not meant to SAY the "we have to keep the lowest paid poor so everyone else knows they're better than them"

RIP Joe

Great choice to close the new Knives Out

Your regular reminder that sport hurts.

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head? I saw her from the corner when she turned and doubled back Started walkin' toward a coffee colored Cadillac I was pushin' through the crowd tryna get to where she's at And I was campaign shouting like a southern diplomat

Prime time sportainment.. golf :(

RIP Brent. Turn it up loud today.

YES we've been to the new IKEA

You might need a few more!

Top 5 Aotearoa New Zealand albums #Bestof2025 Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie Marlon Williams - Te Whare Tīwekaweka Dick Move - Dream, Believe, Achieve Troy Kingi - Night Lords Alien Weaponry - Te Rā

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Phew, wotta scorcher. Already.

I'm handling it.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

You're taking the piss now, Baz. You may have been before.

When Shirley says sing, you sing..

What I'm wearing to the BlueSky Christmas party.

TVNZ adding some Bradley Walsh to their pitifully inadequate selection of programmes featuring Bradley Walsh, I see.

Musical Advent? Yeah nah. All one big splurge. Things what I have enjoyed this year:

Today I am mostly building a raised bed from a kit

BRB, building ark.

Sounds like the cream we put on the ceiling in an annual dinner food fight in the late 70s might have been removed.

Today I will mostly be playing..

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Thin Lizzy The Smiths Trouble Funk The Pogues Prince

You're assuming I was bold enough at that age to have a choice.

They put the Kiwisaver down, they put it up. They twist and turn like a twisty turny thing.

Boys keep swinging.

Game on.

Oh, Mani #RIP

Motorhead's version of Enter Sandman is better anyway.

The good stuff.

Disappointed by the lack of volume from Metallica in the neighbourhood.

Gym bro ordering at the caff. "100 grams of chicken, 40 grams of cheese.." Ten minutes and he's still going. "And a small amount of cream on the side." Fksake, lad. Make your own breakfast.

What's Welsh for "Ay caramba!" ?

Don't** want to kick off a trans-Tasman stoush here but better than Amyl & the Sniffers: ** I do

Emma Thompson doing the Frances McDormand thing in Dead of Winter. Didn't quite come off, but pretty good.

Sage advice from Bill.

Earwormed by Radiohead's Just, which they played the other day for the first time in yonks, so they're probably responsible.

Post a free image from your camera roll to train AI and line the pockets of Facebook.

iPhone advert trying to ruin that terrific Greentea Peng song for me :(

Huge crowd at Eden Park.

Oh yeah.

Cos I've done a lot of travelling this year, I have the impression I missed out on a lot of music. What are your go-to listens for 2025?

Remember, remember the .. er.. no. It's gone.