Thanks to @andrewhickey.500songs.com I’ve been peeling spuds to this far out beauty.

Apparently he’s making a list of who’s naughty and nice. Merry Christmas!

Groups and artists you wish had made Christmas albums: Jonathan Richman Cocteau Twins Bobby Hutcherson The Everly Brothers Blossom Dearie

‘You boy! Can I start on the cans yet?’

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Christmas has dawned in Sydney. Greetings to all! Day 25: A Christmas song Recently @patrickkincaid.bsky.social reminded me that there is more than one McCartney Christmas song. I am a fan of both, but this one is very joyful. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

In honour of the late Chris Rea here's me performing "Driving Home For Christmas" for the last time at The Andy Kim Christmas show in 2023 RS youtu.be/io38roENXr8?...

On today’s adventicle, I have friends everywhere.

Sorry, had to follow that post with something silly. Going all out attacking defenders of the monster on Threads, but aware I’m probably fighting phantoms. Will leave that site next week, but I suppose it has been something of a pressure valve.

Rare photo of Paul McCartney and Glyn Johns enjoying a pint together during a break from the Get Back sessions.

Thinking about the prisoners I work with whose life chances were always limited, whose poor choices were often difficult to avoid. And this supremely powerful man, who had everything in the world the moment he was born, will probably never pay for the monstrous things he’s done.

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." (Samuel Pepys) 🎨 Mildred Anne Butler

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

Played the long game with this one, it took ten months but was worth the wait. A hefty plaster of a pudding, much like being slept on by a big soppy cat, plus one nice pint at lunch, really like being hugged & chloroformed from within

It’s still up on my Substack. Muellershewrote.com

A Bearded Vulture rescued in the French Alps has proved to be the oldest of its species ever recorded in the wild:

Preposterously, this is a Marvin Gaye song and not part of Prince’s Precipitation Sessions. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hzt...

“All sci-fi is a family teatime treat” says 1970s BBC reeling from Star Wars, before scheduling a bleak eco-fable about an unstable man who murders his co-workers aboard a doomed space ship.

Good article on AI from Rafael Behr. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Been relegated to the tiny bedroom by my pal's mum & aunt, this pillow feels like a bad omen

Schofield was regarded by his contemporaries as a peerless stage actor. Because he made relatively few screen appearances, his name has rather faded from memory. Looking at his IMDb entry, it's only A Man for All Seasons that's likely to be watched today.

49 years since The Signalman was broadcast.

No artificial intelligence was used in this video, only human stupidity

Cannot wait to hear these stories!!!!

Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service has released photos of the breach at Whitchurch. #canals #whitchurch

It moves when you are sleeping, It moves when you're awake, It's the infamous 1906, San Francisco earthquake

Actual serious debate on Threads.

panettone story

I’m an introvert* who married into an extrovert family, and one of the things I’ll never get used to is leaving only enough time to turn up for appointments exactly on the dot.

Thinking about anyone who is struggling at this time of year, including those who are grieving, remembering time past. These days, stretched out like they are, can feel particularly jarring (I remember it well) which chimes with this piece I wrote for Xmas 2021. Posting now for anyone who needs it:

I've had this argument with quite a few people. "We didn't lose the web in the dot-com crash!" No, because you can run a website off a single cheap computer, and the web wasn't just three companies all of whom owned stock in each other.

Among his other numerous acts of philanthropy (google him), Michael Sheen sold his properties to fund the homeless World Cup. File him under ’not an arsehole’. bsky.app/profile/mgua...

All the times I've watched this and never before noticed the name of this shop. A little Easter egg in a Christmas film

Just spoke to lovely lady who told me that after her kids arranged a surprise birthday party for their dad's 80th, she instructed them NOT to do the same for hers as she already had plans: to go to New Orleans for the jazz festival. Live my dreams, queen 🙌

Well, we’ve just had Pipes of Peace* and it hit really hard. What a lovely song. *Not by Pikachu.

My sister-in-law is playing Pokémon Christmas songs in the car. This too will pass.

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

It's almost as if people have contrived to turn immigration into an obsession

Happy solstice, everyone

Happy Solstice, everyone

this one small brain think thoughts

Rewatched The Holdovers, which I plan on watching every Christmas for the foreseeable future.

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 20 ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

I have finally put my MR James collection, which is quite extensive, on the bookshelf that came from the Rhodes James family who were family friends. It came from the estate of MRJ niece, maybe Dr James, maybe from the family home, and at the very least owned by his brother Sydney. Goodnight

Watching BBC All Creatures Great and Small. 7-year-old me was dazzled by Carol Drinkwater and I’m not surprised.

Today I learned that Norman Collier was 15lbs 4oz at birth

I've written another ghost story for Christmas. It's called Echoes from the keep. Hope you want to read it and if you do, I hope you like it. www.booksie.com/posting/bex-...

Important addendum to my attempts at analysing my querying experiences.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse The day job

2025: My novel Beast was published by the brilliant @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social earlier this year. A lovely part of a year that is ending quite hard.