I realised this when I heard Red Rum (3 time Grand National winner in the 1970s) died in 1995

I will not hear a word against Scott Mills. Having said that, he was a very bland radio presenter and quite an evil man.

My poor magnolia trees are being battered by this hail and blustery wind

I dispute that “love is required, whenever he's hired”. That doesn’t seem like Scaramanga at all.

Not once has my fiddle leaf fig been happy with my care.

From the moment it arrived it’s had symptoms of both underwatering and overwatering.

Churchill one minute, barcodes the next. Disgrace.

The daffodils I pass when walking the dog made me think about this visit to Chatsworth House in 2012

@peteshallcross.bsky.social

So much more chest hair than is apparent in the side-on pics 🔍

Thinking about the twitter gay with the display name ‘Ayatollah Cum-in-me’

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.

"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

I had a bag of Squashies earlier

Klæbo into second on the all time gold medal ranking

Imagine showing this headline to Thora Hird

Bob Dole doesn’t need this

My money’s on the first thing

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

I enjoyed the tonal clash between this text and photo, in some historical drivel presented to me by the Facebook algorithm

Those yellow briefs were barely containing it

It was a fucking chore to watch the latest episode of The Traitors in rural New Zealand, but we managed it…and it was worth it.

Fiona is both amazing and unhinged. I think Rachel will have the upper hand but there’s a risk of people realising it’s traitor vs traitor.

Personal news: today my Party Rings were unholey

Yep, the Wikipedia picture for that name could be oil painting, daguerreotype or iPhone photo

Just realised I’m wearing sunglasses in every photo

(Steve from Corrie guessed 8,000. Because Debbie had written 3 billion in numerals, that answer was used for their team average. They lost the round.)

Steve from Corrie reacting to Debbie McGee guessing that 3 trillion miles of wrapping paper are used annually in the UK

Look, I wanted to get to Greggs before the rush, so I published the document early. I didn’t think anyone would notice. You can stop going on about it now.

An electronic road sign in the beautiful town of Widnes is currently displaying:

IS YOUR C READY
FOR WINTER

Such a strange way to promote a public appeal. Lead with positivity about your project, not sourness about something that happened nine years ago!

(This year’s is on the right)

This year’s desk Christmas tree vs last year’s desk Christmas tree