Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰
@ianpeacock.bsky.social
Misanthropic idiot. Personal assistant to small dog. Manchester. You might have heard me on Radio 4.
Eddie got a bit wet earlier
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Eddie got a bit wet earlier
The weather’s so horrid that I’ve had the log burner on for three nights running 😮
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The weather’s so horrid that I’ve had the log burner on for three nights running 😮
Interesting selection of books for sale in the cafe at my heart hospital
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Interesting selection of books for sale in the cafe at my heart hospital
Cosy Eddie
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Cosy Eddie
I’m a huge Woody Allen fan (although I obviously don’t condone recent things he’s been accused of) and have just read that the late Jay Landesman, who I used to be friends with, along with Fran, staged gigs with Woody (and Barbra Streisand too) at his club. OMG.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’m a huge Woody Allen fan (although I obviously don’t condone recent things he’s been accused of) and have just read that the late Jay Landesman, who I used to be friends with, along with Fran, staged gigs with Woody (and Barbra Streisand too) at his club. OMG.
I’m planning to annoy King Charles today, in order to get an all-expenses-paid, lifelong stay in a manor house in north Norfolk. #Sandringham #Prince #Andrew
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I’m planning to annoy King Charles today, in order to get an all-expenses-paid, lifelong stay in a manor house in north Norfolk. #Sandringham #Prince #Andrew
Oh dear. Eddie’s eating soil from the indoor Bougainvillea again. (NB. It lives outdoors in the summer).
October 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Oh dear. Eddie’s eating soil from the indoor Bougainvillea again. (NB. It lives outdoors in the summer).
It’s grim up north.
October 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It’s grim up north.
Ripening some of the 150 tomatoes which my tiny £1.50 tomato plant produced this autumn.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Ripening some of the 150 tomatoes which my tiny £1.50 tomato plant produced this autumn.
My lodger was shocked on walking into the kitchen and finding me listening to Manchester rapper #Aitch I explained that I’m quite a fan, despite being 100. I love the fact that he refers to roads around here as if they’re riddled with gangsters. I’m now listening to Salif Keita, who I once met.
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My lodger was shocked on walking into the kitchen and finding me listening to Manchester rapper #Aitch I explained that I’m quite a fan, despite being 100. I love the fact that he refers to roads around here as if they’re riddled with gangsters. I’m now listening to Salif Keita, who I once met.
My first fig, grown in the garden in … Manchester 😮
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My first fig, grown in the garden in … Manchester 😮
Reading a book about luck (The Luck Factor by Professor Richard Wiseman - very good) and suddenly had a tickly feeling on my nose. It was … a ladybird.
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reading a book about luck (The Luck Factor by Professor Richard Wiseman - very good) and suddenly had a tickly feeling on my nose. It was … a ladybird.
Eddie by the canal at the end of the road
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Eddie by the canal at the end of the road
Reading about the eccentric American heiress Rebekah Harkness who
cleaned her pool with Dom Pérignon and dyed her neighbour’s cat green following an argument.
cleaned her pool with Dom Pérignon and dyed her neighbour’s cat green following an argument.
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reading about the eccentric American heiress Rebekah Harkness who
cleaned her pool with Dom Pérignon and dyed her neighbour’s cat green following an argument.
cleaned her pool with Dom Pérignon and dyed her neighbour’s cat green following an argument.
I bought my first ever tomato plant in June for £1.50 It was tiny but I reckoned it might produce two or three little tomatoes. It then proceeded to morph into a rambling triffid and produced … 153. They’re now turning red and I had one for lunch today. It was beyond delicious.
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I bought my first ever tomato plant in June for £1.50 It was tiny but I reckoned it might produce two or three little tomatoes. It then proceeded to morph into a rambling triffid and produced … 153. They’re now turning red and I had one for lunch today. It was beyond delicious.
The last of this year’s cornflowers
October 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The last of this year’s cornflowers
Most disappointed I wasn’t sucked up to Heaven today. I’m going to give the Rapture a dreadful review on Tripadvisor.
September 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Most disappointed I wasn’t sucked up to Heaven today. I’m going to give the Rapture a dreadful review on Tripadvisor.
The canal at the end of the street
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The canal at the end of the street
The autumn logs have arrived.
September 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The autumn logs have arrived.
Yet more fabulous proofreading by BBC News online
September 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yet more fabulous proofreading by BBC News online
More great proofreading from BBC News in this story about another defection to Reform from the ‘Conservatioves’.
September 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
More great proofreading from BBC News in this story about another defection to Reform from the ‘Conservatioves’.
My 100,000 honeybee lodgers have been ethically rehoused and are now living with a nice Turkish man on the edge of a forest. I’ll miss them. They were always very well behaved and didn’t sting me or Eddie once 🐝🐝🐝
September 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My 100,000 honeybee lodgers have been ethically rehoused and are now living with a nice Turkish man on the edge of a forest. I’ll miss them. They were always very well behaved and didn’t sting me or Eddie once 🐝🐝🐝