It's too much to hope that good things happen in threes too, right?

@jasonhazeley.bsky.social @gralefrit.bsky.social Good afternoon from Molford, apparently.

Everything about this sounds terrible, yet at the same time the complaining Mayfair neighbours absolutely deserve to have a Liz Truss club move in next door.

And, it turned out, versions of both in the one game.

This Scotland team are capable of winning 48-3 or losing 24-10 and pretty much anything in between. #SixNations

Turns out it's slippy and difficult. #Olympics

They should just have made the dinosaurs 30 years older.

On one level you have to salute the challenge for the 'history's greatest transport metaphor' title held by Titanic since 1912.

Just been to a game where both teams had a two goal lead and ended with a stoppage time goalkeeper equaliser from a corner. #scenes #thefootball

Well that's a first and another ground ticked off the list... Good standard and serious hats off to the travelling support from Ramsbottom.

Outstanding horror movie pitch.

@outonbluesix.bsky.social Already have my copy but pleased to report sighting 'Golden Age...' in a small bookshop on the Isle of Man this afternoon.

For a second there I thought we were getting 'The Rest is History' as a Scandi noir drama.

It's a reassuring morning to be in the Isle of Man and 100% confident Donald Trump has no idea where that is.

Given the calibre of doctors at the top of the US government 'internal bleeding' could just be them discovering where blood lives?

He introduces episodes starting with wildebeest quietly drinking water by the side of an oasis. Chekov's gnu.

@minakimes.bsky.social The NFL UK shop sent out an email this morning. Ouch.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist. One of them was later found to be full of aerated concrete and marked for demolition.

I know it flies in the face of *absolutely everything* but I've had a really nice and relaxed day doing a lot of walking around and looking at things and not very much else.

If you go to All4 they seem to be celebrating getting the new season of The Simpsons by putting up a collection of some of the worst-ever episodes.

In a pair of the most middle-class injuries imaginable, twisted a back muscle putting Christmas decorations in in-laws' loft and then exacerbated it trimming the wick on a candle.

On balance, I think this is the right week to go and live on an island somewhere for a bit.

Now into hour six of the two hour journey from Glasgow to Lancaster so obviously I'm in Blackburn and heading for Wigan.

Currently travelling through what seems to be Telegraph and Spectator columnist country.

Making what should be a short two-hour train journey to catch a ferry. Related: anyone know how to kill 90 minutes in Carlisle on a Sunday night while it stretches to eight hours, two buses and two trains?

@alicefraser.bsky.social Cannot begin to tell you how good "going to live on an island someplace" (which I'm doing tomorrow) looks right now.

Everything about 2026 so far says "go and live on an island somewhere" would be a tempting option. So fortunately I'm doing that tomorrow.

Meanwhile, in an executive suite at Parkhead, "Ted Lasso definitely pretend?" appears in a Google search bar. #CELRAN @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social

This but Chelsea. (H/T @minakimes.bsky.social)

Happy new year, everyone. For a variety of reasons it's going to be a weird one, and I hope everyone has an excellent one.

Great to see the old Breakfast Time clock getting a run-out. #Hootenanny

I met David Cameron twice before he was an MP and didn't find out I'd met him for more than 20 years.

Good morning to a week that is going to involve stopping one (brief) job, starting a new one, trains, new year, multiple visits to hospital(s), overnight ferries, moving to a different country at an address I can't pronounce and a family birthday. No, it's FINE.

I don't know why, but Briggite Bardot absolutely fits the profile of celebrities that usually pass away between Christmas and new year.

Happy "Oh that's where all the bags for life have been" day to all who celebrate.

This Christmas is already something that will be a great funny story/therapy session/Edinburgh show in about five years but right now (and I know it's his birthday) JFC. #Christmas

Discourse update: 'The Holiday' is now cancelled for featuring trace elements of Walliams (Cameron Diaz is watching 'Little Britain' when she gets to the cottage, for some reason).

Getting more devastated Walliams reaction coming in from people who worked with his books and their readers: "Thank god for that" - primary teacher "Merry Christmas! 🥳" - school librarian

Well it seems that went pretty much as expected.

Even as a lifelong connoisseur of Scottish football insults I'd never heard of this excellent one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee_... (Urgent attention @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social )

Hoping tonight's fight is the start of an exciting new era for boxing, and already looking forward to Alex Jones vs Combine Harvester in Dubai next March, with Joe Rogan vs Three Tetchy Bears on the undercard.

Two new podcasts up this morning: one a look at someone who committed a series of atrocities which were the talk of the popular press and whose appalling legacy is debated to this day. The Rest is History team also continue their series on Jack the Ripper.

Latest 'annual stats' message arrives from Life360 app and JFC absolutely not OK on any level.

Two new podcasts up this morning: one a look at someone who committed a series of atrocities which were the talk of the popular press and whose appalling legacy is debated to this day. The Rest is History team also continue their series on Jack the Ripper.

Finally, Mike Johnson reaches his final form.

Reverse angle of the collapsing Statue of Liberty, including a sensational poster.

Tired: saying things like "everything's awful, I should go and live on an island somewhere next year" Wired (me, obviously): actually doing it.

UPDATE: I have now been offered a route from Glasgow which changes at Newcastle, again at Leeds and arrives three hours after I need to get there. The alternative is "the same but the day before".

Me: "Hello, I would like to book a two-hour train journey on the first weekend of the new year". UK rail network: "*cackles hysterically* We'll be needing your wallet, mother's maiden name and a kidney" Me: "But can you get me where I need to go in time?" UKRN: "lol no"

In the last three weeks I have had to produce more proofs of address, references and photo ID than I have since I got a card for Clyde Video Hire in about 1993.