The sheer rampaging power of the tory party's incompetence from brexit through covid got the press used to the idea that they could just whip up major resignations whenever they got bored. Sadly this is now a big driver of current UK politics.

Entrelac baby blanket in Hobbii Lollipop - colourway: Boise. Good mindless knitting project but am glad to see it finally finished and ready to handover. 🧶

Saw Poster Power! at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath today. This one from 1865 was my absolute favourite.

My brain keeps getting tripped up when someone says ‘Gorton and Denton’ because I hear ‘Galton and Simpson’ and fear there’s a vote for a new Steptoe.

Hamnet sequel ideas: Macdeth King Leer The comedy of Errols Oh, hello! A midbummer nights dream

🎶 we got a snow drift, Danny’s gift and plasma from the bloody lifts axed doors, maze tours and creepy twins you can’t ignore, red rum, scared mum, barman chum and you must say when he’s typing all the day it’s all work and never play play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play. 🎶

Got new hearing aids today for the first time in 5 years. Everything is very loud and I have spent far too much time taking photos of the back of my head.🦻

Hit me Paul Shane one more time

A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Sam Wanamaker for the second time today. Just as mesmerising this time. Booked to see it again when it comes to Bristol. Am sure I will love it but the intimacy of the SW gives it an extra impact. In the lower gallery seats you can hear the actors breathing.

I love how happy the drumming skeleton looks. He's having a marvellous time!

Just read The Mermaid Tank by L.P Hartley in All The Fear of the Fair from @blpublishing.bsky.social Now I am sad I'll never get to read it for the first time again. Made my partner read it as a substitute.

And now I've had an email read out on Better Than Life.

Had an email read out on Carry On Up the Podcast today. Think I might have peaked for the year already.

In 2025 I started 107 books. 100 were new (to me) and 7 were re-reads. I abandoned 4 books as too bad/dull to finish. There were 9 others I finished but would not read again.

The stages of New Year’s Eve

Someone did a YouTube video setting scenes from the Timothy Dalton Wuthering Heights adaptation to the Shuki Levy Heathcliff theme song and it is *amazing* youtu.be/el9kKP3aZbE?...

Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock

Very pleased with my haul. 📚 Starting with the Christmas ghost stories

The Room in the Tower was great up until the tacked on ending. Gatiss does it every time and it never adds anything to the story. Loved seeing Nancy Carroll though.

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'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

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It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

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Have you ever wondered what a review of the year would be like if it was written by a halfwit who spends too much time on here? WELL... Historian John Julius Norwich used to publish a ‘Christmas Cracker’ of stuff he collected each year from history and literature. I do the same, but stupider

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Enjoying this painting of Jimmy Carr having an existential crisis

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i stand by this statement every year

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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie

At night time when they all have gone The book of Kells cries and cries and cries because it is a book and nobody is allowed to touch it

Socks for December: Self-drafted vanilla pattern, knitted TAAT in West Yorkshire Spinners Signature Sparkle in Yuletide. 🧶

Haven't seen this in decades but I still say Ur-rhug-away whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Listened to episode. I think I need to buy wardrobe door locks 😱

I have ordered a Fanny Craddock card to keep all for myself. I love it so much!

Saw A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Sam Wanamaker this afternoon. It's twisted, dark and disturbing. I absolutely adored it. Sergo Vares as Puck is mesmerising and sinister. The stand-out performance in a very strong cast. Am booking to go back and see it all again!