Peter
@peterlamey.bsky.social
An aged and impecunious barrister. Bisexual, not an intellectual. He/him.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
I do feel like this or something like it has gone around a few times now, but we can always find something different.
I do feel like this or something like it has gone around a few times now, but we can always find something different.
December 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
I do feel like this or something like it has gone around a few times now, but we can always find something different.
I do feel like this or something like it has gone around a few times now, but we can always find something different.
I’ve eaten a lot of food over/under/around a sleeping baby at this point, but nothing to date has been as challenging as our Christmas dinner of seared duck breast, home-grown sprouts and parsnips, and a rather nice glass of Cote Rotie.
December 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’ve eaten a lot of food over/under/around a sleeping baby at this point, but nothing to date has been as challenging as our Christmas dinner of seared duck breast, home-grown sprouts and parsnips, and a rather nice glass of Cote Rotie.
Ope, read the polar express to an uncomprehending infant and reduced myself to a puddle of tears.
December 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Ope, read the polar express to an uncomprehending infant and reduced myself to a puddle of tears.
I think this is actually my favourite reading in the entire canon.
December 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I think this is actually my favourite reading in the entire canon.
Usually I finish my wrapping during #9lc but this year I’m nap trapped by an almost-three-month-old in plaid pyjamas and you know what? It’s the best.
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Usually I finish my wrapping during #9lc but this year I’m nap trapped by an almost-three-month-old in plaid pyjamas and you know what? It’s the best.
First thing out of the emergency kit: last year’s advent candles.
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
First thing out of the emergency kit: last year’s advent candles.
Baby’s first power outage. This should be interesting…
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Baby’s first power outage. This should be interesting…
One thing I know is true is that I have never once bought the same package of toilet roll twice in a row. Baffling sequences of numbers, quantities, and gradations.
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
One thing I know is true is that I have never once bought the same package of toilet roll twice in a row. Baffling sequences of numbers, quantities, and gradations.
We’re doing our annual re-read of A Christmas Carol, and I’m reminded this morning that you can genuinely see how bowed down some people are under the weight of the chains they’ve forged for themselves in life.
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We’re doing our annual re-read of A Christmas Carol, and I’m reminded this morning that you can genuinely see how bowed down some people are under the weight of the chains they’ve forged for themselves in life.
Folks, it’s good.
I saw Roger Ackroyd on the reading list and it was enough of a red herring to keep me on that theory until very late in the game, but the whole thing was just so well done.
I saw Roger Ackroyd on the reading list and it was enough of a red herring to keep me on that theory until very late in the game, but the whole thing was just so well done.
Ok baby’s asleep I’m having hot dogs for supper and watching new Knives Out.
December 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Folks, it’s good.
I saw Roger Ackroyd on the reading list and it was enough of a red herring to keep me on that theory until very late in the game, but the whole thing was just so well done.
I saw Roger Ackroyd on the reading list and it was enough of a red herring to keep me on that theory until very late in the game, but the whole thing was just so well done.
Ok baby’s asleep I’m having hot dogs for supper and watching new Knives Out.
December 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Ok baby’s asleep I’m having hot dogs for supper and watching new Knives Out.
Everybody wants the wheelie ladder in the library. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when it runs over your toes. ☹️
December 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Everybody wants the wheelie ladder in the library. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when it runs over your toes. ☹️
Red-tailed hawk surveying the birdfeeder this morning.
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Red-tailed hawk surveying the birdfeeder this morning.
One annoying part for me personally is that I’m currently in the process of constructing a small children’s library and you know this is going to do something weird to the used market for Franklin books.
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
One annoying part for me personally is that I’m currently in the process of constructing a small children’s library and you know this is going to do something weird to the used market for Franklin books.
Wait is calling something “a total gong show” not an international phenomenon?
Cynics like to say Canada lacks a distinct national identity, but then how would they explain this?
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On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he s...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Wait is calling something “a total gong show” not an international phenomenon?
Am occasionally asked about my hopes for little Hugh’s future, and it’s hard to really know what to say about a baby who’s two months old, but that he be able to stand in authentic wonder before God’s creation strikes me as an extremely apt summary.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Am occasionally asked about my hopes for little Hugh’s future, and it’s hard to really know what to say about a baby who’s two months old, but that he be able to stand in authentic wonder before God’s creation strikes me as an extremely apt summary.
The official, just-in-time PJL review of the first Wicked movie: everyone involved in this project hates Frank Baum and other than Defying Gravity the music is mid. Two stars.
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The official, just-in-time PJL review of the first Wicked movie: everyone involved in this project hates Frank Baum and other than Defying Gravity the music is mid. Two stars.
The Carthusians.
What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Carthusians.
The black and white moth on the cover of @tkingfisher.com’s What Feasts at Night has bought me an extra 20 mins of reading since the baby woke up because he’s fascinated by it. Marketing hack?
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The black and white moth on the cover of @tkingfisher.com’s What Feasts at Night has bought me an extra 20 mins of reading since the baby woke up because he’s fascinated by it. Marketing hack?
The Red Hot albums were legitimately incredible? Bizarre to think about charity compilation CDs in that way, but the version of This is Madness from the Last Poets with Pharaoh Sanders on Red Hot + Cool is maybe the best moment on record from everyone involved.
Rediscovered RED HOT + BLUE, a great tribute album to Cole Porter.
David Byrne, for one, absolutely understood the assignment.
David Byrne, for one, absolutely understood the assignment.
David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In
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November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Red Hot albums were legitimately incredible? Bizarre to think about charity compilation CDs in that way, but the version of This is Madness from the Last Poets with Pharaoh Sanders on Red Hot + Cool is maybe the best moment on record from everyone involved.
I wonder when the memories of the little wrinkles my son gets on his forehead when he does a big stretch while sleeping in my lap will fade away for good… I know I won’t even miss them, but I can’t imagine that now. Just too precious.
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I wonder when the memories of the little wrinkles my son gets on his forehead when he does a big stretch while sleeping in my lap will fade away for good… I know I won’t even miss them, but I can’t imagine that now. Just too precious.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The maxim you want to describe the responses to this skeet is “a hit dog will holler.”
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The maxim you want to describe the responses to this skeet is “a hit dog will holler.”
Tossed a lighter that wasn’t working into a campfire.
The ensuing fireball knocked me off my feet and into the log we used for seating.
The ensuing fireball knocked me off my feet and into the log we used for seating.
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Tossed a lighter that wasn’t working into a campfire.
The ensuing fireball knocked me off my feet and into the log we used for seating.
The ensuing fireball knocked me off my feet and into the log we used for seating.
Ok, 3 weeks in and this is my first real “but I’m a big toasty cinnamon bun 😔” night feeding.
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Ok, 3 weeks in and this is my first real “but I’m a big toasty cinnamon bun 😔” night feeding.