#madvent Pirate - a day to blow a raspberry at.

#advent Pirate my "shapeshifting" 😉 beardy boy looks more like a giant poodle in this one.

#advent Pirate with Otto the Octopus

His area of focus included clean energy fusion. Another tragic loss.

Ooof - night of the long knives. Except they weren't the sharpest ones in the drawer.

#advent Pirate the bear in the woods

#advent Yummy flowers Pirate

#sadvent Late from Sunday Pirate - was the kind of day where hiding under branches in the corner of the garden seemed an appealing life approach. This world & its conflicts 😟

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

#madvent Pirate collected his toys & would squeeze into his junior bed.

#advent Pirate loves to play & this bouncy kong was a favourite.

#sadvent Mood - today was lots of irritating, frustrating little things. Not Pirate obvs but his pensive face matches mine.

The weird sexualised pup/puppy play skeets are creeping me out. 😡

#advent Pirate - sometimes in photos he doesn't look that big. He is actually rather large & eats & drinks a lot. 😂

#advent He's slowing down a lot more now he's 11 but he's such a wonderful, life enhancing dog.

#Madvent Whenever i give Pirate a full groom i end up with a second dog.

I missed my calling in life.

#Fadvent When i had the "bright" idea of trying to make Pirate wear waterproofs. He was goodnatured enough to get into them once...

#Gladvent When he was still little enough to be lifted onto the garden table & brushed. His paws 🥰

55 years old and only just found out that the cowboy in Glen Campbell's song does not weigh nine stones.

This peace prize biz is making me chuckle. Going to have to think up some institutions & corporates who may be interesting choices for peace prizes. Birds Eye Peas prize for intractable, frozen,disputes. Let it Go The Margaret Thatcher Social Media Peace prize - where there is discord...

Been down a very enjoyable rabbit hole. Couldn't sleep - got intrigued by names for moons & remembered a lyric from The Waterboys 🎶I saw a crescent/you saw the whole of the moon Ended up listening to the Best of the Waterboys album. Just brilliant & took me back to some wonderful times.

BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff. Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%. Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance. Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected. Back to Victorian times.

In 30 years time what will people be able to blame Mrs Brown's boys for.

Kitty break- kitty dad deserves an award for this.

More #Gladvent Pirate my big black beardy boy.

I thinking of Point Break & am pretty sure nobody would have worn the Donnie mask.

You’ll Be OK

#Gladvent 48 hour party dog event for my darling Pirate's 11th birthday. So many treats & his favourite foods & pressies. Pirate is a rescue boy - from info fellow sib rescuers & i found (4 others were also in rescue) we discovered his big litter (11) had a rough start.

I am amused that he was passed out next to the loo as though he'd vommed & collapsed.

##Sadvent The trauma of a shower. Pirate was a very good boy though.

#Badvent Pirate was such a norty young dog he grew horns.

#Advent #Sadvent #Madvent #Fadvent #Padvent Pads & Paws in for #Padvent huge paws & pads like a puma. Going to try to do a picture every day. This week is Pirate's birthday which will be a #Gladvent day.

You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925

For the budget to be fully leaked & for PMQs to proceed with no reference to the leak is extraordinary. This Government is either being tactically sabotaged from within or is v incompetent or some mixture or both. Chaotic & are starmer/reeves being nobbled for a new duo to step in.

That Pepto Bismol advert makes me ragey. I will never buy Pepto Bismol now although before I used to think it was kind of cool in a Warhol /Mr Brainwash way. Need a brainwash after hearing a singing riff on diarrhea

I've been binge watching The Walking Dead as I wasn't that interested when it first aired. Really enjoying it now. Andrew Lincoln will always be Egg to me but I'm entranced by Daryl and think Carol is fascinating.

It was the autopen.

Finally, an Olympic sport I can get behind!

The biggest, bigly turkeys, biggest turkeys ever to be presented & pardoned. Wattle waffler

WAnchoring Bias

When is a protection racket not a protection racket? State of mind, mind of state

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

CoffeeeeBoooy Robusta,Liberica !

Rose Window. Sainte-Chapelle. Paris, France. #travel #photography #RoseWednesday #WindowsWednesday #art #Gothic #rosewindow #Paris #France

A classic

My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.

There's a singing advert for a funeral service called Simplicity Cremations. It's like an Irish folk tune -two fiddle players singing "Simplicity Cremations where you go when you go" It almost sounds appealing 😒 wonder if they serve Guinness & tato crisps. 🎶🎻 V weird 😳

The Saudi regime has executed Abdullah al-Derazi, under 18 at the time of his alleged crimes, linked to him attending demonstrations against the regime. In August, the Saudis had executed Jabal Labbad, also arrested as a minor, in his case for attending demonstrations and funerals.

Don't use dirty tricks against a dirty person. Never ends well.