Graeme Beale

Just remembered the boy from school who on a school trip failed to finish a single whole croissant and was therefore mercilessly teased and known by some as Cwass for the remainder of his time there. Teenagers truly are odd/cruel.

Love a romance book. But been knocked out of one just now by an “English” character saying ‘a dime a dozen’. Just a Britpick I know, but a glaring one.

It’s nearly Halloween 🎃. That means this is your seasonal reminder for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to switch over to the other screenwash. Nothing worse than a frozen skoosh tank. They’ve probably got pumpkin spice or cinnamon flavour so you can give your car 🚗 a treat.

Hope the flat downstairs has double-pegged their laundry.

I think there’s a new Temu scam that I haven’t figured out yet. Last few things I’ve bought a month later I’ve got a non-delivery notice offering a refund. But the things have been delivered. I’m assuming someone is reclaiming, but not sure how it works, or who is losing out.

We are at the wheelie bins stage of the storm. 1 ⭐️ . could do with it finishing today or tomorrow afternoon at the latest thanks.

Frosty morning. Cycling today wearing shorts. My primary school uniform was shorts for boys. All year round. I remember walking in sleet in shorts. Miserable. As a middle aged man my knees are so much less temperature sensitive. A brief lesson in who designs uniforms. (I’m not a fan of any).

Sometimes, it’s just laugh out loud funny how badly targeted “targeted advertising” can be. I’ve literally written and performed poems on people’s titles. As a #Quaker it’s genuinely hard to think of something that interests me less.

My health app, amongst many other things estimates what percentage protein I am. Just wondering if it’s actually monitoring that for future alien overlords trying to up their gains?

Morag is never happy when I have marmite toast for breakfast.

Filling this thread for next time someone asks me “why do you as an academic funder request CVs rather than rely on people’s web profile.”

Face of a cat desperately hoping that there’s some spare lactose based breakfast. There is not. Sorry Morag, it’s peanut butter and toast today.

I thought the emergence of 'Black Friday' was bad in the UK anyway. This morning I've opened my work inbox, to half a dozen scam/spam/dodgy management training courses. Was there a button someone pressed all talking about their celebratory Black Friday sale? The scambots get stranger and stranger.

Just listened to a podcast on an incredibly important subject but for which the interviewee had an almost comically boring voice. 25 minutes of "this is important - focus" battling in my consciousness with "but his vooooice isss sooo dullllll." Don't underestimate the importance of being engaging.

Someone somewhere must be sitting on a mountain of reusable water bottles. The water bottle cycle 🔁 I buy a reusable water 💧 bottle (for the environment). Said bottle disappears in mysterious circumstances. I buy a reusable water 💧 bottle. It’s baffling.

An oligarch with a brolly ?

Feeling obliged to share my Amazon info. Devastating levels of detail. I feel seen as my local Gen zees would say. They know I drink coffee and probably have a washing machine.

Every time I see the word broligarch I think some words truly should never be spoken. In this case it's because bro and oligarch don't us the same letter o.

Morag’s been howling for minutes because Teddy (the neighbours cat) is in the front garden. Not inside. Not stealing her food. Just sitting on the lawn. #cat

It's spooky season. Therefore you should all enjoy truly the most amazing version of Season of the Witch. It's seven hypnotic minutes of swirls and a hammond organ. Singer - Julie Driscoll. Jut go with it. youtu.be/dCKZPEleI-U?...

Ordered a book which will be coming from the US at some point. It feels like an adventure. Will it arrive? Will there a be a tariff randomly added? How long will it take to get here? All the thrills of being a C18th merchant wil a slightly lower chance of dying from plague.

LPT: free yourself from optimism bias by never having hope!

Ahm no' a grass.

#Scottish #LIDAR folks. An exciting announcement of a first conference, looking to build a user community on the new Scottish LIDAR data. 2/12/2026 @ Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. Please do RT if you think you know people who might be interested! luma.com/y3vt0vha?dm_...

RELEASE THE NEXT EPISODE IMMEDIATELY I PAY MY LICENSE FEE #CelebrityTraitors

Neat little image from meteoblue showing what kind of climate we had in Europe this summer. London had the summer that you used to expect in Portugal. Paris on the south coast of Spain. #climate #change.

John Greenleaf Whittier, Waldo Williams, UA Fanthorpe, Rosie Bailey – there are many Quaker poets. Rhiannon Grant shares some more in this blog for National Poetry Day https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/expressing-faith-through-poetry

A moment’s peace means a #poem for world poetry day. Strangely also world #Quaker week too.

On principle I’m not watching your podcast. In much the same way that I don’t go to the National portrait gallery to listen to the pictures.

Fascinated by this picture on Sky News site. I’ve been to many petrol pumps over the years. But never, I think, rainbow 🌈 pumps. I’m guessing this is where the people who have “powered by pixie dust” bumper stickers fill up?

Feel like Nigel was phoning it in a bit today.

There should be a “cobble-free” option on Google maps for cyclists in the rain.