I've had to make the kids a packed lunch of sandwiches, pop, crisps and cinnamon bun, because I'm out of the house for 3 hours running some errands for their aunt Lucy. She was pleased with the pink roses she got for Valentines Day. Her husband not so much. I didn't get him anything.

Kilauea erupting. www.youtube.com/live/6IaMqot...

Bought my son a smart watch with massive battery and screen face for his birthday. Currently on 80% after two weeks. He's well chuffed.

It's always good to see FB Valentines posts from people's partners who I know have cheated on them at least four times.

A colourisation of Nelle Pillsbury Snyder in 1920. A survivor of the Titanic sinking.

What? Aliens are real, but you haven't seen them?!!! 👽

Prep for the spicy chicken ramen for Saffron's special birthday request.

Saffron loves her Clarke 18V Brushless Combi Drill/Driver & Hammer Drill she got for her birthday.

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones, 1837–1930) was an Irish-American labour activist & organizer, labeled "the most dangerous woman in America" by a West Virginia prosecutor in 1902 for her success in organizing mine workers, their families, and strikes. She fought against child labour in mines & mills

It's Saffron's birthday tomorrow. Her main birthday present won't arrive in time. Just looking down the centre aisle and wondering if she'd like a rotary table saw or full drill bit kit.

Once attended a police lecture about Public Sex Environments where men would meet up. Fun fact: They were busiest on Saturday football match days between 2:30 and 5pm.

Trying to get Hazel10 to colourise stuff with complicated street scenes. Usually runs out of interest part way through, but manages to address the whole of this. Paris in 1894 by Stieglitz. Still slightly chocolate box, but getting there.

Getting up to greet another beautiful day.

I'm up early despite it being an INSET day for the kids and I could lie in. Mainly due to Erin suddenly finding she slept through 5 alarms, getting up in a panic, getting me up to drive her to the bus-stop to catch the bus to college, because she'd never make it in time with it being a 10 min walk.

If you have 40 minutes, an interesting watch. If you can understand the accent.

No notes from my peer review. Excellent report. Well researched and very fair with the conclusions.

I see America is on one again today. Several foreign 'drones' were spotted, but they only hit one.

My youngest has sent me a message about her birthday when she should be asleep. It popped up with "Special Gifts for Teenage Girls" and now I have to burn my phone.

Nothing says "I Love You" more than heart shaped pizza or steak and gravy pie

Now that DDR RAM is completely unaffordable, I'm offering 2,500 analogue valves temporary memory for sale at a reasonable price. 8.5kw power supply needed.

My friend is crying because Gemini Nano-banana 3 Pro and Nano-banana 3 are down and kaput. Anyway, my Hazel9 is not. Natalie Wood, 1950s posing in her summer dress, photo by Earl Leaf.

The nap was interesting. At one point I 'woke', but was at the midway point from sleep to that. Eyes partially open. Arms and legs incapable of moving but relaxed. Like floating in a warm pool, drifting along, then slid back under to sleep some more.

The truth will always get out. "People have been killed by the security staff..."

Feels weird going for a nap at 1pm on a Tuesday, but there you go.

There's so much yet we don't know, haven't read and havent seen.

Saffron gets up and comes to the lounge, "I can't sleep, dad. I try but I can't." 'Okay. Come sit with me for a bit and wrap yourself up. We'll watch a bit of TV together." "Okay, dad", she snuggles up. 10 minutes later sound asleep. I pick her up & put her to bed. L No fuss. No argument.

My youngest daughter is already referring to this being her 'birthday week'. Given that her birthday is on Valentine's Day, this does not bode well for any long suffering, poor, cursed & tortured creature that becomes her partner in the future.

An attitudinal change to work-life balance? It's the old 'let's make workers miserable in their work and underpaid' attitude he's spouting. Roll back unions. Roll back overtime. Roll back maternity & paternity leave. Roll back job protections. Roll back everything to the pre-1920s.

On the countdown to pay-day this Friday. Checked in on my bank account. I'm a few hundred quid up from where I usually am around this stage of the month. Now paranoid I've missed a payment for something.

"Dear Neighbour, My name is Patricia Clegg. I'm a 74 year old pensioner and I'm writing to explain that my last letter wasn't a cynical piece of propaganda that blatantly breached election law..."

Blood. DNA. Fingerprints. Footprints. Fibres. CCTV. Caught with stolen goods. It's also hilarious. If you want to see how it all plays out watch the link. www.facebook.com/share/v/1NQS...

Cue the same journalists writing why McSweeney staying would be terrible for Starmer, to writing how McSweeney leaving would be terrible for Starmer.

The "Mephistopheles and Margaretta" 1875, is a renowned 19th-century double sculpture carved from a single log of sycamore wood. Created by an unknown French artist, it depicts characters from Goethe's 'Faust', symbolizing the duality of good & evil with a mirror placed behind it to show both sides.

Erin earlier: "SAFFY, YOU'VE MOVED MY GYM TOP! WHY HAVE YOU MOVED MY GYM TOP! WHERE HAVE YOU PUT IT?! COME AND HELP ME FIND IT! YOU NEVER HELP. YOU'RE ALWAYS SAT WATCHING TELLY! COME & HELP! WHERE IS IT?!" Saffy goes and looks. Two seconds later, "Found it." "WHERE WAS IT?!!!" "You were sat on it."

I'm on holiday. Did a handover to a supervisor from another section. He's not a practitioner supervisor. He moaned that my staff get £15,000 a year more than him. Told him that they're higher qualified than him, have more responsibility, work shifts, weekends & do standby He's flexi Mon / Fri, 9 / 5

Just making up pulp fiction movie posters from combinations of other images to entertain myself.

Erin's not well today. She missed college. Came in & she's sat on the settee looking pale. I give her a cuddle. "Still not well, sweetpea?" "Yeah, stomach's really playing up." "Perhaps you shouldn't have eaten your month old birthday cake I was going to throw out of the fridge, last night?"

"It's horrible. I have never experienced feeling so depressed at the cinema. It was absolutely awful and so absolutely repugnant." youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?...

Want to see how bad the DDR RAM price rises are due to Ai? 👇

I'm in the Epstein files. At least, my name is. As a prosecution attorney.

"Dad? Who's your favourite Star Wars character?" "Mr. Spock" Bangs her legs up & down on the settee, "Even I know he's Star Trek! Not Star Wars! Mine's Han Solo." "In the later films it's revealed that his son, Kylo Ren, is secretly Princess Leia's & Luke's, not Han's. She made out it was" "Really?"

Eldest daughter watching early Star Wars films for first time tonight. "What the fuck are those Ewoks about, dad? In reality they'd become furtrapper hats. Someone's cold weather gear!"

Why is there orange peel in the toilet?! WTF kids!

The phrase "Rolling ad hoc WFH conditions" was spoken to me today, and "We'll let you carry two weeks leave over into April if you'll lead the audit." Me: "Great. Put all that in an email to me and send a similar WFH offer email to the woman who's just resigned. She may withdraw it." "Errr"

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