I have a Sports Injury. It is groin strain. I don’t really know what to think about this, given I don’t do sports.

And the slackly pronounced book is a Penguin!

Just been listening to an audiobook SO FULL of mispronunciations that I am furious. So slack not to practice. E.g “preparatory” pronounced “preppetory”. Got names wrong etc etc. V v annoying.

Got sent to Moorfields today for torn retina. Amazing. From triage to back out on street, via laser surgery on retina, four hours. #NHS

Lordy, loving catching up on the R3 Julie Andrews 90th birthday homage. Singing along, weeping every now and then. Fab.

Repost if you have more followers than the Official White House BlueSky Account

Searching for an 8 letter capital city, I turn to Google … Such bollocks.

My onions looking pretty good. Show in two weeks. #onions

28 days of no cigarettes, and my skirt seems to have shrunk. It’s rather tight now.

3 weeks of not smoking. 3 weeks of almost non-stop vaping.

Day 17.

Day 14 of no cigs. Which means two weekends of temptation resisted.

If a hornet drowns in your bottle of wine, is it okay to still drink it?

And therefore Day 10 of much vaping.

Day 10 of no cigs. 👀

Have had to stay very busy as distraction.

Day 8. Surprisingly full of craving for proper cigarette, despite vape and lozenges.

Day 6. Much vaping. No smoking.

Day 5 no cigs, too much wine, lovely weather, chilli con carne in a mo, salad from garden. On the up and up.

Here we go. Day 5. I’d like to thank my vape for all its support in these trying times.

Day 4. No cigs. But not yet a non-smoker.

Nearly end of day 3. Still no fags.

Stopping smoking is a full-time bloody job.

Day 3, no smoking. Massive craving despite vape. Eek.

I am now a single-issue poster.

No cigs today.

36 hours with no cigarettes. Day 2 coming up. 😱

So it’s 24 hrs cigarette-free, I’m drunk because in desperation for stimulation turned to wine too early (won’t do that again), going to go to bed soon to escape, to read my book, v tired because trying to stop smoking after 45 years makes you knackered.

And I still haven’t had a cigarette.

I have still not had a cigarette today.

I have not had a cigarette today.

It's not even 7:30am but this'll probably be the best web page I see today thick-coins.net

Exploring some of the churches north of Ipswich today and called in at Crowfield, where Roy Hudd's gravestone is laid out like a theatre poster as a nod to his work as a historian of the music hall.

Furious cat has taken over the grand-daughter’s bouncy chair. He’s still furious. #catsofbluesky

Literally, no humans. Just a voice on the phone. Used to be a really nice family ran it, was buzzing, had a great dog, had nice drinks in garden with little salami snacks. Now, nothing.

Well, the hotel we loved in France, which had a fabulous restaurant, is still here, but ruined. No restaurant, no humans to welcome you, just get whatsapped a whole load of codes for the front door, the key safe, the lift, the staircase. Unbelievably unwelcoming and soulless.

The swifts are back in Highbury!

Good morning, newly minted Papal Conclave experts.

remembering fondly the historically correct behavior of purchasing a thing with money and never hearing from the seller of the thing again in my life

This is high art

My two month old granddaughter got the winner in the National in the family sweep. Too young to pay me her stake money. 😥

@highburyfields.bsky.social Went for a ride! Pulled the cord, jumped off the platform before the stop, just like the old days. Fantastic.

Took me way too long to find this (sound on)

It's Mothering Sunday in less than a fortnight. I'll be reading out the names of our #RememberedMums in church on the morning of Sunday March 30th. If you'd like to add your late mother's name, let me know. It can be oddly comforting to know her name will sound out once again. Reposts welcome. ❤️ 👑

This dog enjoyed the choir very much at this morning’s Sung Eucharist at Selby Abbey. I was a tourist, he was obviously a seasoned service-goer.

Another triumph for Google’s AI. #ShittyAI

Do please follow. Cheers, Tom

See my search? And then see what absolute nonsense Google’s AI served me up. #shitAI

Ha, a small joy is restored to the world: Back on the bird place I had coded a bot that did Egyptian texts. The murder of the API killed cheapbotsdonequick, so I resurrected it as a webpage, but that was less fun. @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social lives again. Not quite the way it used to be, but.

Another great result from Google. Thank you, AI. Complete rubbish.