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My new spirit animal just dropped

Monkey is ready for his evening love-in

My dad’s funeral today, and I realise I’m fearing it not because funerals are awful (I think they can be wonderful things), but because it’s finally final. Until today, he’s just not been here. After, he’ll be gone.

New extreme sport just dropped, lads

Lovely new print from my old mate here

What, the guy who took £5m from a foreign donor? Not *that * guy?

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I don't understand why you would want to be a billionaire unless it was to bring even a tenth of the goodness into the world that Dolly did. What's the point of all that wealth if you keep it to yourself and use it for ill?

Met this god damn poseur in the gorge this evening. He said he liked my cycling hat but I know he was being sarcastic

I met this little guy yesterday. A female wasp spider, never seen one before!

William Orbit-uary. RIP to the legendary producer.

Oh will it looks like axbridge hill is on fire then

Become impossible to explain (Irony not lost on me that I decided that this would be the caption but then had to explain the image for the alt text)

Honestly, one of the best things in the world is bumblebees going into snapdragons. Look at its fluffy little bum re-emerging!

One of my neighbours is practicing a tuba. The delicate sounds are floating in the cool evening air.

Someone has acquired a badge machine and is very not sorry.

"Nice cargo ship. Be a shame if anything happened to it"

also, always fun to make a guy's day by asking him to retrieve something for you off a high shelf at the grocery store

Ok this is incredibly bougie but I popped the cork on a bottle of lambrusco and it fizzed over so I tried stopping it with my thumb and it went *everywhere * as I increased the pressure and I literally had to repaint the entire room, such was the red wine staining

ITS WORLD CUP

Devastating, as @hannahfearn.bsky.social says. However, one line jumped out at me, from someone genuinely sympathetic: "He says the education system needs to equip young people to be “much more versatile and chameleon-like” to adapt to the unpredictability of the future." Quick 🧵... /1

Just went to the tip, saw a chap struggling with a bag of garden clippings so said "can i give you a hand, mate?" and he said, and I *promise* I'm not making this up, "that'd be good" whilst waggling the hook he had on the end of his left arm

Full moon rising above axbridge in Somerset. Glastonbury tor is visible, more or less, on the horizon

Bit of workshop catchup for next week’s install - it’s nice and cool in here. But there’s nothing like doing your mirror mitres to reveal your middle aged melting face

I've not seen one person say anything positive about Wes Streeting. Not a single one. Presumably Wes knows no one likes him either, which must be why his face always has the slightly stunned look of someone who just shat themself in public

A little bit of calm - this very bold Robin fledgling enjoyed me doing a bit of planting and stirring up insects. Hope he’s not TOO bold, there’s a few cats regularly in the garden.

Ok this is the photo I should’ve posted last night, not the blurry one. Blame post-ride pints. King John looking out over a dramatic sky and full moon in Axbridge town square

Probably the best picture of king John and a full moon I’ve taken today

Buy a massive hill, build loads of mtb trails on it, get loads of ecology going around them. Maybe pop a bunch of wind turbines on top and solar panels at the bottom for a big community energy project. Uplift would be a funicular railway, just for shits and giggles

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.

Just in case, went out for a ride in the woods, had a quick pint with a pal and came home to loving wife and best cat friend

Dirty martini with spicy olives. And a cocktail umbrella, because if the world’s going to be on fire I’m damn well having a cocktail umbrella.

I made us a new coffee table this week from old project leftovers and offcuts, and a knackered old plan chest. I rather like it. #woodworking

My local has a new pair of cats. Only got a pic of one but she’s lovely. Pints and purrs, offsetting the horrors #caturday

Monkey was looking *fierce* today in the late afternoon sunshine. He’s not much of an outside during the day boy, so we have a bit of a play when he fancies some garden time with us.

I’ve stolen this from someone on Twitter - it’s too good not to share here. Jessica Simpson was taught acting by Chuck Norris. And if you think for a moment that you can guess what that involved, you are very, very wrong.

Fuck me, you post a moan about startup culture and then a bot immediately comes along to validate it. What is this nonsense non reply to me?

QTP with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

This seems pretty indisputable. Reform and the Tories, who want to scrap net zero, are very obviously bought and owned by fossil fuel oligarchs and corporations.

Happiness is a flat cat. Just look at that little fluffy chin.

Pink cats from my lover!

the world is awful but this is very not