Ant Cooke

Trump saying anything publicly about 9/11 makes me feel sick. He cheapens everything he touches.

Sickened to hear about Jason Arday. The classy global media arses have worked their magic once again.

Listening to Moby Play for the first time in ages. 27 years gone in a blink. 😳

Unite The Kingdom? Unite my arse! (Not that it’s badly separated mind). Can’t stand those gammon faced men and pursed lipped biddies declaring we need to “take back are country”. If hate and racism are patriotic, then I’m no patriot.

It’s all going a bit pineapple, egg, chips and peas here in the UK.

It amuses me how Gallo mark themselves down on the creaminess and resistance of their risotto rice.

Double joining rewards on Smarty mobile at the moment. I’ve been really happy with them. I’m saving a tonne on what we were spending with Three. #smarty #referralcode i.smarty.co.uk/6armKN

I’ve just used ChatGpt to create an alt text for an image. Alt text is really important for the vision impaired but it’s also time consuming so doesn’t always get done or doesn’t get done well. I thought the AI did a good job.

We rot Dill in the fridge and you can too! For several months my wife has been buying packets of Dill. She places them at the back of the fridge and waits for them to turn into Soylent Green. Occasionally we have to discard some but it gets replaced every week. #newhobby

I moved my whole family from Three to Smarty. I'm saving a lot of money. The network is powered by the Three towers so my coverage has stayed unchanged. At the moment they are doing 80GB data for £10. Plus they are giving up to £40 as a signing bonus if you use my link i.smarty.co.uk/6armKNp

How is the music of Pink Floyd still so good after all these years? Just listening to Shine On You Crazy Diamond. It was released when I was a month old!

If you are going to break a wine glass, try to make it one of your Riedels. That will really improve your day. Serves me right for leaving them unwashed by the sink for a week.

Longden at sunset.

Homemade chicken and vegetable soup. Adding a sweet potato lifts it beyond boring. You can make this cheaper than store bought in about 30 minutes. #lush #soup #homemade

Hugh Grant is really chilling in Heretic. He’s creeping me out.

Just had these delivered. Same as the ones we had last week. I think my idea of a ripe and ready banana is a bit different to Tescos.

A Song Thrush in our garden. #birdsong #UKbirdsong #Shropshire

Today’s view from Lythbank, Shrewsbury.

Wanted to put ale in my stew today but only had Carlsberg. So I used that. It’s probably going to be the best stew in the world.

@saintlocks.bsky.social strong pickle tray at The Masala.

That was pretty shameful America. Anyone who thinks that was appropriate behaviour in the Oval Office needs to sit quietly in the shade for a while.

These tariffs aren’t about drugs or border security. They mean to engender hate between nations and eventually set the stage for invasion.

Another crisp morning here in Longden, Shropshire.

Shrewsbury needs Telford for our economic security. It’s just an arbitrary line on a map. #annexetelford

It’s a hard frost night for me, it’s a hard frost night for me…

Trump is making very Putinesque noises about taking territory from Canada, Denmark and Panama. I really hope the world won’t stand by and let him bully nations and steal territories.

The boy doing some improv. I know I’m biased but I think he’s cool 😎 #electricguitar

Wet and messy snow here in Longden, Shropshire. Looks like Mr Rabbit is still getting about though.

I still use Facebook to keep up with what is going on with family and friends. Recently though Meta have flooded my timeline with content farm posts. I keep hiding them but they are just replaced with more. If they aren’t careful they will kill the platform.

Misty Boxing Day in #Shropshire

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The news coming out of Germany is awful.

This is the Windrose electric semi I got to play with. It's got more than 1 MW (1400hp) at its wheels and its 729 kWh battery means it can get 670 km per charge at 49 tonnes. Video of this truck (and the price) will be live in a few mins and I reckon it'll ruffle some feathers in the trucking world.

Delusions of grinder

I love that The KLF are on streaming services now. It really takes me back.

Just got back from the hygienist’s. They still haven’t got anyone on staff called Jean. My day will come.

What’s with the knitting based bot accounts on here?! What’s the thinking? We don’t like Musk’s right wing rhetoric ergo we must like knitting instead?

Microsoft's cash grab to end support of Windows 10 is nothing short of criminal. 200-400 million working machines heading for landfill is nothing short of an ecological disaster. Governments need to intervene. #climatecrisis

I procrastinate so much. It takes me so long to get going. With pretty much anything. No idea how to fix it.

The Black Friday Smarty deals are awesome. I've moved my family's phones to them. They have various deals but I went for 80GB for £10. If you use my link we'll both get Amazon gift cards too after you've been with them two months. Thank you for ready Ant's cheeky advert! i.smarty.co.uk/6armKNx

My lad learning some Chris Isaak tonight.

Egon Muscovite might be odd but his Starlink has made a big difference to our home and business. We live in the sticks and the phone line gets us around 2mbps. That isn't internet at all these days. Now we're consistently getting between 100 and 300 down and 15 to 25 up. #Starlink

My Yorkshire Tea tasted different this morning. I thought I must be coming down with something and then I received this text. 🫤

Learnt today that I can ask Siri to take a screenshot. Much easier than trying to press two buttons on either side of the phone. #iphone

The garden looked nice in the snow.

We’re two seasons into the West Wing. Haven’t watched the show since Danielle and I first met over 20 years ago. It’s still excellent all these years later (although has moments of sexism which was pretty standard back then).

Did you know we make sofas, chairs and footstools?

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