Turns out that salted, crunchy peanut butter and dried dates really, really work …

After watching it any number of times in the last 49 years, tonight was the first time I realised that Lance Henrikson is in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

I do worry that as good as it will be to see the back of Orban in Hungary, isn’t replacing him with someone called Peter Magyar a bit like us electing Johnny English?

Iran war latest: Trump issues expletive-laden threat to Iran demanding Strait of Hormuz be opened - BBC News In a post on social media, the US president says in Iran “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one” if the key shipping lane is not reopened.

I saw this elsewhere and assumed it was a parody in poor taste.

It’s real.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

So Russian losses, killed and wounded in the war against Ukraine are now about the same as the combined population of Nottingham and Coventry.

An entire generation of men for two cities. That’s a demographic disaster in the making.

So what - if anything- is actually happening in Washington DC? Odd if disjointed reports popping up here and there, but nothing substantive on legacy media.

RIP Mary Rand.

19th November every year. Now stop asking and go and do something useful.

Oxford's win on Friday night drops the Baggies into the Championship relegation zone.

I'm going to need a smaller violin.

I have no love for the Iranian theocracy, and do not mourn the death of the Ayatollah, but at the same time I fail to see how the situation can be improved by bringing to the boil an area that is always a cauldron simmering and bubbling with anti-western discontent.

#operationepsteinfury

Operation Epstein Fury: “That’s the way it is”.

So where next for Peration Epstein Fury?

Wolve 2-0 Villa!

We are officially NOT the worst team in premiership history!

Sorry/not sorry Derby.

Interesting observation: I cross posted an observation across thee platforms but it’s only on Threads that the Colonel Blimps have swollen with apoplexy.

HMRC have just sent me notification of my tax code for 2026-27. After my state pension, I am allowed to earn £2.88 a month tax free.I won’t be the only one seeing their occupational pension being scalped.

What is it with McKenzie Crook and Ford Capris?

I wonder if he’s sweating?

"We will not be naming the arrested man"...

Watching University Challenge. I’ve successfully answered about 30% of the questions off the top of my head before either team.

THERE IS NO ONE HERE TO WITNESS THIS UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE!!!

In the month since I retired, I have lost between 5 and 7 lbs. Mainly because I’m not snacking out of boredom.

Once the weather perks up and I get walking more regularly, the world will be my lobster (IYKYK).

Jago and Litefoot? Nope, they don't ring a bell...

Catwoman and Bat Pod. #McFarlane #ActionFigures

Dr Who action figures posed in street with forced perspective.

I’m. I think we’ve arrived in Coronation Street by accident, Babe…

Watching the Winter Olympics and I am distracted by the thought that the Giant Slalom should be some kind of massive furry cryptid that lives in the Andes…

The so-called elites were surely always corrupt, but now they are also feckless and unable to hide it.

Blimey. There are some dodgy-looking coves sitting at the top table of Captain Bonespurs’s “Bored with Peace”…

Can someone explain to me how Native American people are somehow no longer considered to be American?

Decided to start watching “The War Between the Land and the Sea”.

This is where the money went that could have funded more Who. Not sure that would have been worth the trouble though. I think Rusty has shot his bolt.