The night before Imbolc and also the Snow Moon. Saturday's moon through thin cloud above traffic lights.

A school friend of my daughter was killed in Afghanistan. So F* off Trump with your stupid pronouncements that non-US soldiers did not fight ! RIP Danny.

I've just torn & bloodied another nail (4th time) trying to open a Head and Shoulders shampoo bottle. The type with a flip lid, not pump type. How are you supposed to open them? Especially if you have hand control problems. Any suggestions for a shampoo+conditioner in a screw top bottle please. #MS

ISTM that Trump wants Cuba for its nickel deposits. So he can make lots of coins with his face on them ! ⛏️🪙💰

In the USA production of coal and salt increases as they prepare to remove Greenland's ice sheet to get to the minerals. 🇬🇱🧊🧂⛏️ 😜😼

So, we've had a 'Special Military Operation' by Putin / Russia into Ukraine. Now, we've got a 'Special Military Operation' by Trump / USA into Venezuala. Shall we go for a third: 'Special Military Operation' by Xi / China into Taiwan. ❗💣💥

Did the King keep the receipt for the Bayeaux Tapestry ? 👑💰🪡

I hope Trump gets to watch the sinking of the first 'battleship'. He would like to emulate King Henry VIII who watched the sinking of the Mary Rose. She sank due to instability after heavy modifications Gold gun barrels are my suggestion. 🛶⚓🌊⏬

Just when I thought I could relax before Christmas. The freezer door was left open a bit - so a midnight scraping off of ice to allow the door to seal closed ! My wife said there is a mouse in the bathroom - so a 0530 deployment of two old bait stations I still had ! 🧊🐭

Well, I'm declaring that I've nearly got all my Christmas stuff bought and sorted. Just the online food delivery in the morning and then I can sit down for a few days and indulge ! 🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️🦃🥜🥕🍠🥧🍨🍫🥬🍎🍊🍷🍺🍗🍽️

1st daughter just texted my wife: "are you wrapping presents" replied with: "of course, with [2nd daughter] 'helping' " We always wrap at the last minute. Presents are swapped tomorrow. Their tree has been damaged by the cat. Most of the lights have failed on our tree. 🎁🎄😸🎅

The Kennedy Center will be the first of many: Washington Monument; John Adams Building; Andrew Jackson State Park; Lincoln Memorial; Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library; Eisenhower Executive Office Building; Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum; Ronald Reagan Building. and so they all fall...

Police are investigating the murder of a Christmas tree in the High Street.

I'm thinking of putting 'World Cup' in my list of muted words for the duration. 😀⚽

For Christmas, as well as an album of whale songs, I want an album of MRI scanning noises. The scan this evening was a beautiful 40 minute mix of low and high tones with big tempo changes! OK maybe I dozed during the scan and the music was a dream. #MRI #MS

Will the US military attack Venezuela's neighbour Guiana 'by accident' when a Russian or European rocket is launched from their space port? Ooops 🚀🪖💥

Why is the tool you want always in the bottom box of four ! I needed my (vintage) leather hole punch to make a new hole in a new belt. It was my grandfather's and must be nearly a hundred years old, but went through the leather 'like butter'. Now my trousers don't fall down ! 😀

UK Covid Inquiry Report: UK did 'too little, too late', leading to thousands more Covid deaths, says inquiry. The manure of responsibility is spread wide & thick! 💩💀😱

Cloudflare is still dead atm. I'm taking the afternoon off ! (well I was going too anyway) 🌩️😜

BBC reports: Home secretary says asylum reforms will 'unite a divided country' as full plans published IMHO this will cause further, but different, splits as Labour becomes 'Reform Lite'

so Trump used 'The Royal We' "we will sue them" 👑🍔😜

The FAA banning daytime space rocket launches is another win for Russia, and China, from agent Krasnov. 🚀🚫

I'm a bit cynical that the carrier group Trump is sending to sit off Venezuela will not be allowed to help Jamaica, and the other islands, after the hurricane. 🌀🏝️🛳️🇯🇲

Nearly two weeks ago I banged my right shoulder and it still hurts a bit. This afternoon I had a flu vaccination in my left arm and that now hurts a bit. As I always sleep on one side or the other, how am I going to cope tonight ? 💪😱

weather forecast is 'Sunny intervals' I've had to switch the lights on because it's gone very dark! 🌥️

background: I'm one of the 'lucky ones' and seem to have a very mild form of RRMS multiple sclerosis #MS that started in '73 ! This week I had a visit to a neurologist for the first time in many years. His conclusion was no meds needed, and keep on doing what you do, and we'll see you in a year ! 1/

Some fireworks for Diwali going off now ! lots of bangs but I cannot see anything from my window. ❇️💥

I have an ear worm this morning. I'm going around humming & singing (thanks Evil Neuro & Wind Rose): I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole Diggy diggy hole with variations: I am a worm and I'm digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole I am a mole and I'm digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole

This morning I got thrown backwards on a bus and banged my right shoulder. I've got full mobility but it hurts quite a lot. So I think I've just got to tough it out on paracetamol and mild exercises. Sorry folks I can still use a keyboard ! 🙁

I spilled some wild bird seed on the ground, and a neighbour's cat came and ate it all ! Cats are going vegan ? 2 minutes later he returns and drinks from the bird bath !

Just spent an annoying hour trying to open the drum of a Dyson vacuum to empty it. Totally jammed! Seems it has to be done in the light of a full moon, with white sage smoke, and prayers to the Discworld goddess Anoia. 😱🌿🌝🧙‍♀️

to @zackpolanski.bsky.social As Peacehaven is probably in a constituency you are targeting - I have not yet seen condemnation of the mosque attack last night. I've not seen anything from any other party either! (I've been a green voter, but not member, for some years, and have links to the area)

I ordered one of each of the following within my on-line groceries delivery order, and got two of each: salami, mince, steak, chorizo, chocolate mouse at least there was no substitutions or 'not available' on the rest of the order. Meat feast over the next few days! 🥩🥧😀

I'm taking bets on whether Starship flight 11 occurs before Windows 10 support ends ! 🚀💻 😜

Congratulations you are number 667 in the queue of 666 for the Rapture. Please stay on the line as someone in the queue, ahead of you, may sin and be removed, thus promoting you. We would like to thank you for your interest and invite you to try again in another 1,000 years. #rapture #queue 😈😇

The cliff that Ellie descended on her charity abseil at Peacehaven. Ellie is near the bottom and her husband and daughter are waiting for her.

Ellie has done her charity abseil and raised 360% of her target. A big gust of wind blew her sideways just as she'd got going and later a lump of chalk from the cliff fell on her helmet, but she completed the abseil!

Innovative use of child play equipment 101. Elon Musk on X The Starship landing video in the Indian Ocean was taken from a camera bolted to a Starlink terminal sitting in a kiddie pool 😂 x.com/elonmusk/sta...

The bit many news services missed about the recent Starship launch is that it deployed, as a SMALL test, 8 Starlink simulators at 2000kg each (total 16 tonnes). for comparison tonnes to LEO (very approx): Ariane 6 - 11 Atlas V - 8 to 19 Electron - 0.3 Falcon 9 - 13 to 64 Soyuz 2 - 3 to 9

So I'm an idiot! - I read the oximeter wrong and thought my blood oxygen level was 70 and my pulse was 96! With an oxygen level of 70% I should be out for the count! Of course swapping the numbers makes me healthy! I think I'm getting near the end of Covid., and hope to get a good walk tomorrow.

Sunday will be 'Happy Birthday to Windows 95' age 30 ! I only remembered because a daughter's birthday is the same date and I was doing her card this afternoon.

update: The covid has eased today - just fatigued if I do too much too quickly, and also headache above the eye (with neuritis). Very little coughing, and not breathless. Got my neuro appointment now and they have classed it as 'MS New' as i've avoided them for years! #covid #MS #asthma

oh damn now I've got #covid on top of my #asthma and mild #MS. It started with wild shakes, loss of control & strength and I ended up on the floor pissing myself. So had to get ambulance to hospital. But being a 'superman' I'd got rid of those symptom and they let me go home 4 hours after admission

Whoever is spamming the Feed for MS People: <in nice but aggravated voice> please go away #bluesky #spam #MS

You all know the web started at CERN, but did you know the Social use of the Web started there too? This BBC documentary gives the history of how in 1992 CERN employees called "Les Horribles Cernettes" were to change the World Wide Web. #CERN #web #social www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLW1...

Today, in the heat, the local cafes were doing a roaring trade in fresh water bowls for dogs! 💦🥣🐕 and the charity shops and others had bowls out.

Another knitted/crochet postbox topper by the Beckenham Library Knit And Natter Group. This was on the box near the library in May 2025. It's a large roadworks cone in red and white with a caption card saying 'NEW TOPPER UNDER CONSTRUCTION'.

In memory of James (Jim) Lovell who commanded the Apollo 13 mission. I was just about to leave school for college when the 'problem' occurred and watched as much on the tv as I could. I was really into space and had spray painted a Saturn 5 launch on a school wall - I was not told off though! 🚀💥😱

In memory of those killed and injured, and also to the survivors of the second atomic bomb dropped by America on the city of Nagasaki in Japan on 9th August 1945.

silly tv news subtitles - an ongoing series... BBC News 05-Aug re Gaza "At the end of the day Trump wants pizza"