Watching Slow Horses, finally! So good.

Watched All The Money In The World. Good movie. Christopher Plummer was excellent. Made cinnamon cherry jam with a kilo of cherry seconds my gran gave me.

Turns out some of us are, indeed, a monolith.

I watched all five movies in the The Purge franchise over two days Good documentary series

Ok, so… I watched the first three movies from “The Purge” series of films, today. They were a tonne of fun.

I’m about to switch my phone off and lock it away for a year. I’ll still have access to my iPad but I plan to use tech as little as possible. I’ll have my Light Phone, which has phone and text capabilities but no internet. You just might not see me as much, is all. Catch ya later. 😎

Seriously. If you see someone working extra hard to convince you to go back to X, block that turd. It's not a genuine entreaty... it's not earnest, it's a desperate business move.

I take it back. The Pantone colour of the year is genius.

Reposting some of my best work of 2025. I was photographing godwits when I noticed this tūturiwhatu (New Zealand dotterel) sussung me out from the other side of a sand bank. I find this quite striking in black and white. 🪶🇳🇿

Mayor tries some racism, fails.

This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...

Anything not to accept that almost an entire country feels AT BEST ambivalent about him.

This is such patronising bullshit. We’re not aspiring to “unrealistic” things like a three-day work week, a holiday house and a pony. We want kids fed, a health system, a role in life for everyone. Those things aren’t unrealistic, they’re a *choice* successive governments are making to deny us.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

I’m in the middle of an inflammatory episode/attack/flare at the moment. I don’t know what to call it because I still haven’t been diagnosed. I don’t recognise myself. This is me at my sister’s place from earlier this evening. I’m sick of looking and feeling like shit.

Went to my niece’s birthday dinner and my sister was talking about how it was a hard case that her father-in-law, who was there, is one of four boys and she is one of four girls.

I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Happy Birthday to the Magical Dick Van Dyke🎂

The Infinite Monkey Cage was my favourite podcast. I have been listening since the very beginning and it has made me a better, smarter and more well informed person. It really is heartbreaking. That said, I adore Robin Ince for this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking this stand.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Absolute day for it.

I’m still annoyed with Pantone. Every damn year. They are the best trolls.

Hello, I just got your memo that you would like to reengage with the nightly struggle that is BEDTIME. Your move, fuckface.

Just listened to a YouTube Short where Jimmy Carr is casually talking about the problems with the NHS, including not enough British doctors and nurses. He throws in a cheeky (paraphrased), “I dunno, if it means we have to take money out of the gender studies budget…”. Pay your taxes, dickhead.

Oh, I forgot… I’m watching A Real Pain. It is psychologically excruciating.

What movie should I watch?

Why don’t wheelchairs come with cat pouches? If any designers out there want to work with me…

They are doing it on purpose now… they’re playing it again

Aaaaaaaand that’s a police siren. Merry Christmas, one and all.

There’s some sort of public Christmas party going on and that dear friends is how I’m out of Whamaggedon having not left my house.

I tried to watch Elf on my family’s recommendation. Got 30mins in. Hated it.

I actually did 2.0x. Would recommend, should you ever be tied to a chair and forced to watch this movie.

I just… I can’t believe THAT was Eyes Wide Shut. I cannot believe Kubrick put Tom Cruise through hell for THAT piece of shit movie.

Hoo, boy. That was so much worse than I was expecting. I really HATED this movie. So much.

We have the earth shattering disclosure that women fantasise about Not Their Husbands, which I’m pretty sure has now ripped a hole in the universe. OMG TALK FASTER. I don’t think I’m gonna make it out of this thing alive. It’s sapping my will to live.

So far… Eyes Wide Shut turns Nicole Kidman from a great actor, who is one of my favourites, to an affected dimwit. Funny (not funny, ‘haha’), Stephen King said the same of Shelley Duvall’s character in The Shining. Hmmm… 🤔 …HMMM 🤨

Van Helsing runs about keeping secrets for no reason like this is an episode of Frasier. Except instead of not telling his brother that he has lost the opera tickets, he is refusing to explain why he wants to cut a lady’s head off.

I REALLY should do something about these eyebrows 🤣

I’m half an hour in with Eyes Wide Shut, with two hours left. So far it’s very stupid and terrible.

That was a quick one Strands #649 “Shakespearean titles” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Connections Puzzle #915 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

“Papa, tell me the story of Times New Roman. Who made it go away?” “Well children, in a time not so very long ago, in a land far away, an ageing wannabe despot, all orange-hued and bloviating…”

Rice balls for the fridge

1°C/2°F and counting…

Made some tasty ume shiso Japanese style rice balls to go with my fried chicken and slaw. 🍙

Dusty has an early Christmas present