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Ubi crustulam ibi gaudium est.
I knew it!
I said Simon Cowell was a jellyfish, but did you believe me? Oh no... you accused me of being on the little mushrooms again.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A month ago I 'binned' a novel by Japanese crime writer Seichi Yokomizo.
Yesterday in Oxford I spotted this new Penguin Modern Classics edition of (IMO) a much more interesting Japanese writer, Seichō Matsumoto - A Quiet Place (1971).
Not that I need any more books just now, but...
#BookSky 📚💙
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Same selection they have on the filling station forecourt any time of the year. They just change the sign now and then.
You can't fuel me Morrisons.
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
BBC News - Farage the UK traitor whose fanaticism is costing the country £4bn a year says:
"We are in an economic doom loop and no one seems to recognise it."
Oh, we recognise it. Thanks to your fuckwittery. Just as we remember the riots you caused in 2024. You're an arsehole.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
One delicious lunch later... as you can see from this picture of University Church of St Mary the Virgin it was a glorious late autumn afternoon.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Yellow car.

(NB. In this house the game has always been known as 'banana car'.
Also, AI generated image, but same rules apply.)
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Trump: UKRAINE 'LEADERSHIP' HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS...
If there were such a place as hell, then Donald Trump would win the golden ticket.
Grade A arsehole.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Next off the shelf is🥁
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar, by Tom Holland (2015). Picks up where Rubicon (2003) left off. Featuring Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero. Expect violence & scenes of a sexual nature. A 24 hour help line is available, blah, blah, blah...
💙📚💡
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
JWST mirror 'selfie' illustrating cumulative damage to the mirror by micrometeoroids. These generally appear as black dots bracketed by alternate dark and light bands. The ripples are generally nanometre defects/warps in mirror elements, in- or post-manufacture.
Image credits in Alt. 🔭🧪
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
What a glorious late autumn day.
More please.
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
⚠️Construction zone.⚠️
Pud in progress. (More details in Alt)
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📢 Attention. Attention.
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) is the best adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella.
That is all.
#BookSky 📚💙 #MovieSky 📽️🎬
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Good start to the day.
7/7 on the BBC Quiz.
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Not while I'm trying to do this crossword, please.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This morning I stumbled into a garden centre packed to the rafters with post-Christmas landfill. It's barely mid-November FFS.
Nobody, but nobody needs one of these.
Keep your 5 year-olds close, or risk kidnapping by Santa's elves, to be refabricated & programmed for some deviant's festive lair.
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🎶It's 19:15. This performance of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades on BBC Sounds expires at 20:30, & I'm barely an hour in.🎵
We're not going make it, captain.
🤣
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Still here.
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Share a TV series from the 1960s you love.

My choice: Mission: Impossible.

(I have not seen ANY of the films. Don't judge me.)
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Also, having swept the leaves into piles (great exercise), I've been scurrying around the lawn with a pair of leaf grabbers gathering up the piles like a Pacman.
(Yes, I did have the tune playing in my head.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This afternoon.
So many leaves still & both green bins filled, so I've had to deploy 'The Dalek'.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Nominative determinism, right there.
(Story from Stratford Herald)
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Next off the shelf is: Death at the Sign of the Rook, by Kate Atkinson (pub.2024).
I think this is my 4th of 5th KA & I'm definitely reading them out of natural order, but hey I'm a maverick & she's a great teller of tales.
The blurb...
#BookSky 💙📚
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Today's boring post is about toning down the new shed from light ginger to a mid-chestnut. You're not meant to be a garden feature, you're a purely functional shed. Get over it.
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Tonight's #UniversityChallenge 🎓 included this gem of encouragement from Amol Rajan.
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
TV I want to see in 2026.
'221b', staring Joe Marler and Nick Mohammed.
This has to happen.
#CelebrityTraitors
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM