RED ALERT! AURORA NAKED EYE OVER THE UK NOW!

We've been playing with my brother's CNC laser cutter.

33.11 #parkrun

Sounds like Craig on 6Music has gone down with the Glastonbury fever.

I loved what Harriet did, although weirdly strong Liz Truss vibes in places #thetraitors

Ticket booked for Indie Beer Feast Friday.

As Trump threatens more countries, a further reminder wp.me/p15p2Q-enm

33.49 #parkrun Posting a day late because stuff. Huge field (636), probably double the usual size, because a few local runs were cancelled.

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.

Have a poem. stevepottinger.co.uk/poems/let-us...

FAVERSHAM! I am talking Tasting Notes and blowing minds with how music changes the flavour of beer (or rather, your perception of it) on 20th Feb with @favlit.org and @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social. Info and tickets here! Lots more events coming up. www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/2026/events/...

"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"

These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

Kinda proud of the latest glass recycling.

Took everything off the wall to paint, but after putting this back up up, I'm thinking that's enough.

'Ceasefire now End this war Today and tomorrow And for ever more' #Dictators and #warmongers everywhere 😢 youtu.be/9DFJKIImVUE?...

34.14 #parkrun (I left my legs on Pen Y Ghent)

Chilly day out on Pen Y Ghent.

Just in case you'd thought I've squandered the evening, we've watched the first series on The Night Manager.

Here's a photo of me turning in a blistering 33.52 at #parkrun yesterday. It's a very unflattering photo of a 55yr old man with a bit of a hangover (and a cold, it transpired) doing his best. I'm just posting this to let you know that if you're thinking about giving it a go, you really should.

Just clocked 18k steps on top of this walking into Leeds for some lunch.

33.52 #parkrun

Merry Bubble & Squeak Day to all who celebrate.

Tradition and community at the end of the street.

Well, it is Christmas.

Sending compliments of the season to you. May your days be merrier and brighter than this flat grey weather, which can fuck right off.

That griffage is doing its job.

Fridge updated.

Am I alone in finding this card somewhat confusing?

Momentarily excited by the prospect of going out for a pint of Sierra Nevada Celebration later, then realised it's Mad Friday, so stuff that.

🎶 🎵 Sacro-iliac exercises at bedtime is my new jam 🎶 🎵

It's not all whiskey advent calendars round here - the little oven has just had its annual pre-Christmas clean.

Something something meatier shower something something twins.

"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."

Advent Day 11: Few Spirits Bourbon 46.5% dear god I needed a couple of days off. A slightly odd volatile note (nail polish) blows off to reveal a perfectly decent, clean, polished and smooth Bourbon. I bet it would make a bitching Manhattan. Good.

New shirt.

Does this make my white label from 20 odd years ago more or less valuable?

Instead of visiting the £75M Guinness brewery where they don't make Guinness why not visit the £0.25M Donnies brewery where they make Donnies.

Advent Day 7 (actually Day 1) St George's Spirits Breaking & Entering. Straight down the line whiskey, bright and clean and fresh, really clean and classy. Honey and nuts? Oh, go on then.

You get both the bourbon and the rye … cheers!

Advent Day 6: hang on, didn't I see you a couple of days ago?! Lens-cleaning inadvertent selfie included for lols.

Maker's Mark Cask Strength, 55%abv, on ice and a dash. Copper gold colour, huge spirit aroma. Some may think it's a hiding to nothing trying to write notes on 24 American whiskies - they're all the same, right? But as John Peel memorably said about The Fall - always the same, but always different

Advent Day 4: I've realised this evening that in my pious frenzy to commence Advent, I've drunk day 7 on day 1. The font is quite spindly. Anyone might have made the same mistake. To correct matters, I was momentarily swayed towards drinking day 1 today, but then what would become of day 4?

Yeah like actually I'm like really into like new wave boom bap folktronica actually

Advent Day 3: Westward Single Malt. 45%, on ice. I'm not saying that this is becoming a high point of my day, but I ripped the door off in my eagerness to get this one out. Slightly darker burnished gold colour, much more assertive aroma, oak, tropical fruit?

Advent Day 2: Daddy Rack Tennessee Straight Whiskey. 40%abv, on ice. Straightforward whiskey, vanilla oak. Parma violets? Cheeky, slightly raucous. Nice.

Advent Day 1: 50%abv, with ice. Smooth oak and vanilla, pear and almond, marzipan? Pretty fiery, but good.

@theswanyork.bsky.social good to see you on the news tonight Paul, albeit for less than positive reasons