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.
Bash
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I make fancy kitchens and wardrobes and stuff, but mostly post a load of old rubbish www.themoderncarpenter.com
Lovely new print from my old mate here
WEFAIL@wefail.bsky.social · 3w agoClimate crisis - England. A tourism poster for the world we now live in.
What, the guy who took £5m from a foreign donor? Not *that * guy?
FUCK IT! Who'd like to win a signed book from me & Jim? 3 of these going to 3 randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. YOU MIGHT LIKE IT IF YOU LIKE: Weird stones Bookshops Mysterious pensioners Badgers The devil fungi Deer Pixies Sample story here: www.tom-cox.com/the-date/
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!
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"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: "The USA will be, from this point forward, known as 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,' but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security ... "
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
Regardless of whatever else is going on, if I were Prime Minister I would resign on Monday simply because it’s going to be too hot next week
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
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3mo agoOk let’s do this. What’s the worst thing you’ve ever spilled all over your kitchen?
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
Hannah Fearn@hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is a devastating read. The fact that there's a narrative circulating, primarily by people with no connection to the reality of young lives, that we're living through a pandemic of laziness makes it unbearable. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 5mo agoTake a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it
BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.