You've watched a lot! If you have any recommendations please send them my way!

New categories have arrived too:

- Nineties Nostalgia
- Judges, prosecutors and lawyers
- Deafness and sign language
- Mother is a butcher

A snippet of an Apple Numbers spreadsheet, with Undercover Miss Hong assigned 5/5 stars

I've now got 74 watched K-dramas in my spreadsheet, which I'll upload tomorrow. That's about 1000 hours?

Spoiler: Undercover Miss Hong has appeared at the top.

You did but in Notifications I didn't see the post above until I clicked.

I guessed the show straight away :-)

At the end of the series the lawyers move into what looks like the same building complex that Vincenzo was set in, I'm not sure if that's a nod to the pro-bono lawyers in Vincenzo or TV people just like that building.

Pro Bono | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB] YouTube video by Netflix K-Content

Pro Bono: Smug careerist judge is framed for corruption & banished to work providing free legal support to socially worthy cases. A silly series but some of the cases/plots are rather grim and serious. A lovely dog that's clearly enjoying acting, great characters, but overly dramatic and too short

I worked in Newcastle city centre in the 90s and about once a year I get the urge to make my own cheese savoury. That's Greggs fault. (although there are no stotties here)

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Wikipedia: "Piggott began racing horses from his father's stable when he was ten years old and won his first race in 1948, aged twelve" well that explains some of it but it's still strange somehow. He had a Spitting Image puppet!

I was reading a Wodehouse story yesterday (just Jeeves, no Wooster in this one so far) that mentions jockey Lester Piggott and this felt very strange - the story is from the early 1950s, with characters from 1930s stories, and Piggott only died 4 years ago.

At this rate I will need a paper recycling bin dedicated to the increasingly desperate leaflets from my astroturfed local Labour candidate. One of them is partly written in character as her dog. One is from Andy Burnham saying he supports her, although TBF that's never a given in Manchester.

I suppose also relevant: my recovery from both incidents has greatly benefited from health and fitness tracking. I might not always feel better but I can see the effects in charts.

I spent a week in intensive care mostly paralysed with loads of pipes in my neck

I was having a very rare form of anaphylactic shock and was later told I was very unlucky, but also very lucky the medics go to me in minutes. There is a good chance I would not be typing this if I hadn't been able to immediately get heart rate info

I could see from my heart rate that something physical was happening and rather than trying to lie down and relax shouted out for my wife to immediately call an ambulance. (Heart rate went from 90 to 150 in seconds while I was sitting on bed but at that point I focused on answering questions)

I had a minor heart attack in August, but the treatment for it gave me aches and panic attacks, I was advised to calm down and not rush to A&E. I had some new medication in November and felt weird/panicked, tried to calm myself down but checked my watch.

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Well the population still has me in it thanks to mine, if you need one data point.

Streeting looks like someone is dangling a consulting/advisor job on a string in front of him

MSX2 was the best 8-bit system by far

An eroded carving of Minerva on a stone face, framed by modern surround with hood. The light is pale, on a winter's morning.

Close up of a carving of Minerva, on a stone face; modern bricks are visible bottom right, where a hole has been filled.

The shrine in context, on an outcrop of rock in a sloping field. The University of Chester's Wheeler building is visible across the River Dee in the background. It is a sunny day.

Shrine to the goddess #Minerva, Edgar's Field, #Chester. Second century (with modern surround), carved on a quarry wall; the only one to survive in situ in Britain. You can find it in Handbridge, just across the Old Dee Bridge from the city centre.

#RomanSiteSaturday #Cheshire #RomanBritain

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Public transport (or lack of) distorts space and time. I live in central Manchester, and Birmingham feels nearer than South Manchester. London is no big deal, Whitby feels very far away.

(Or at least I've never seen or eaten one that does)

Jeon don't use eggs or bicarbonate

If you want to put kimchi in a British/French pancake then go ahead but don't call it a "Korean style pancake" BBC, you'll cause another Uncle Roger and nobody wants that

Or the script was. Or something. There are so few interesting things in Warwickshire I should know this.

And that was inspired by a rural murder in Warwickshire!

I have made more kimchi

As someone with bad sinuses and a slightly deformed chest I often wonder why the Americanism “mouth breathers” is so popular as an insult