My older child is doing classic studies at university and weeping over Pasiphaë and her baby boy who she named “little star”—which I feel is a super valid response and writing in passionate essays about the monstrous

My younger child is studying for his GCSEs and playing a LOT of computer games

My two children are 16 and 18, they are both VERY much aware of the situation (we are in the UK, but America‘s cultural mycelium run throughout the internet)

Both children and mixed race and no one in this house is what you’d call neurotypical

Both children are utterly appalled

all of Classical Music Bluesky yesterday and today:

Wordle 1,677 3/6

🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

On his way again, apparently…

My father was profoundly colour blind, my son is likewise (it’s on the X, so my son has my father’s X chromosome) & I probably see colours differently to those who don’t carry the mutation I have on one X chromosome
We are very tolerant of colour calling differences in this household
That Is fuchsia

'The frying-pan of gentle correction'.

Just saying:

And the pans! Here are two of them!
Buy le creuset and you’ll never need buy another pan…

admittedly you may buy lighter pans—because these things are genuinely heavy, the frying pan weighs about 2.5kg (I think!)

January 20th 2026

I am off to get my wrist ganglion ultra-sound scanned today!
What a treat!

Very glad to be getting the scan, hope it is all text book (it looks text book)

Zombie skull dress today

January 19th 2026

Well, funny old world and no mistake

Who had the USA threatening a military attack on Greenland on their 2026 bingo cards?

We seem to be in very much “anything at all could happen” territory—mere anarchy

No reason not to wear a pretty dress

And the pans! Here are two of them!
Buy le creuset and you’ll never need buy another pan…

admittedly you may buy lighter pans—because these things are genuinely heavy, the frying pan weighs about 2.5kg (I think!)

This pan has cooked countless fry-ups, chilies, stews etc and is ideal for cooking soft taco shells

It would be an effective weapon against supernatural beings (pace Tiffany Aching and Rapunzel) and still (despite some damage) is in perfect condition

worth its weight in gold*

*idiomatically

This pan has cooked countless fry-ups, chilies, stews etc and is ideal for cooking soft taco shells

It would be an effective weapon against supernatural beings (pace Tiffany Aching and Rapunzel) and still (despite some damage) is in perfect condition

worth its weight in gold*

*idiomatically