Me: No thanks, autocomplete, there is not a book in the New Testament called Colossal Squid.
Martha: At time of recording.

Urgh! Clothing purveyors - stop trying to sell me 'tummy control'! Tummy is a silly word, and in any case mine has survived 5 alien invaders and is now feral!

We are at Castell Powys, where the deer park (unlike the one at my wife's old college) has actual deer! 🦌

A view of countryside in North Wales, with hills at different distances.

Mae hi'n hyfryd iawn y bore 'ma.

150% premium here (on top of the original council tax)

yn wir

Hwre!

AND it's got Keith Chegwin in it!

I agree.

But I was considered too young for Blackadder 2 years later!

And a TV show rather than a film, but 8-year-old me was allowed to sit up with my mother and watch Tenko!

We had an English teacher who thought Polanski's Macbeth was great end-of-term watching for 10 year olds!

I hate it (and I say that as an Eb horn player) my school friends who grew up playing non-transposing instruments ended up with a much better sense of general pitch.

Similarly, my kids call our dog Mozart Bozart Fee Fi Fozart ... the second (because he is not the 18th C composer).

I live in Wales. Yes, I have very much seen the rain.

Spent the evening making and listening to a collaborative playlist (with my spouse and the daughter-in-law-elect) of songs with questions. #TinyJoys

Tatws pum munud!

A man sitting at a working desk, reading, and simultaneously looking something up in a second book. He is also wearing a corn of flowers.

Two easy working improvements from the year 1537:

1) a dual monitor setup to read and write faster
2) a flower crown to look notably cooler while doing the reading

#skystorians

I think I've had 'why Bala' as well. And it trying to tell me about the exit for Rhuthun/ Ruthin is always a highlight 😑

It's wonderful to have a wife who doesn't get offended when I tell her that her top* makes her look like a beautiful sea slug!

* waterfall? Hanky hem? Girl-lore something something. Anyway, sea slugs are great and so is my wife!

2024 is when I stopped teaching HE English Lit. But at one point I'd been teaching for 4 different unis and it was rubbish!

Wimbley wombley Londony Wonderly!

Alleluia may be added

A modern sanctuary in an old church, with wooden furniture including a bare altar. The lighting is blue. There is a purple-veiled cross in front of the patterned East window.

Stormus a wyntog iawn yn ystod y gwasanaeth Gwener y Groglith yn Y Bala y p'nawn 'ma (ond yn dawel yn ystod darlleniad Efengyl Parch Phil am 3 o'r gloch)

You know, I saw this list of space toilets posted by someone else and thought 'should I share this so Doug sees it?' And the next post down was yours 😆

A tiny church with wooden pews, pulpit, altar rail, and altar. An arched East window on a green East wall. A wooden roof.

gwasanaeth weddi hwyrol hyfryd yn eglwys llanfihangel heno

However, it strikes me that 'hippos in the Dee' would be a good news story for tomorrow.

Fair point.

Very proud of myself for being able to tell Parch Dorothi which Gospel reading I want for Sunday, even though she was showing me it in the Welsh Bible. Yes, 'Ar y dydd cyntaf o'r wythnos, yn fore, tra oedd hi eto'n dywyll'. That's the one!

Ganymede (large black cat) bit Mozart (skinny timid dog).
Vet: It's not too bad, but you did the right thing to bring him. The only thing worse than a cat bite, germs-wise, is a human bite.
Me: *very carefully does not say 'what about hippos?' because we don't get many of them in the Dee Valley!!*