Low expectations randomly landing on a movie called The Stuff tonight, but this hits the spot nicely. A somewhat sinister satire with southern accents. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/ #Movie

We're in a pub where we can control the jukebox from our phone, and it's apparently pool league night in the pub so all the pool players are also getting to appreciate Rammstein absolutely free of charge, thanks to us.

We've headed around to a nearby pub as they were advertising a quiz. We appear to be the only people here to take part in it. I suspect this quiz is not going to take place.

We've bought our first ever pop-up gazebo so that we've more opportunities to make use of our garden. I very much hope none of our neighbours were watching as we tried to work out how to attach the top canopy and one of the walls. We did not cover ourselves in glory there. #Garden

Late catching up with #QuizzyMonday quizzing, and stupidly pleased with a #UniversityChallenge question that we both got early at the utterance of the name "Snake Plissken."

This is how in tune with each other we are: Random music playlist starts playing Macho Man by Village People. My wife starts laughing. I hiss at her "Don't say that!" She laughs more. Yeah, we might just love Joan Cusack in Addams Family Values.

We've lived in our house for 28 years, and today I noticed that our house and that of our immediate neighbour are longer than everyone else's in the road by a couple of metres. A keen observationalist I am not.

Chatting to my wife about old Liverpool nightclubs from my university days. Got to the Blue Angel and discovered it has its own Wikipedia page, including this recipe for a drink called the Fat Frog which we both now want to try. #Alcohol #Liverpool

Four different butterflies in our garden at the moment: Holly Blue, Large White, Red Admiral, and Painted Lady. We don't often see the latter here at all, and I can't remember ever having four types at once. #Nature #Butterfly #Butterflies #Garden

I've spent today writing technical documentation. I really don't like writing technical documentation. I'm now drinking peach lager in the garden. This is preferable.

Wife's just admitted that she bought her niece something technically illegal recently. Wife is ashamed of this, and understandably so, because it wasn't alcohol. It was an energy drink. Bloody kids today.

Yay. My Pixel phone has some gesture thing that brings up the fucking godawful Gemini crap which I immediately discard when it appears. Only, I don't know what the gesture is so I can avoid it. And I don't want to ask Gemini. Fucking tech and the cunts with money who ruin it all.

Gathered enough raspberries from the garden to start the first wine of the year. Fruit, sugar, water, yeast, and time for the magic to work. The house is already filling up with the scent of fermentation. Should make about 4 litres and last year's wine was […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Netball. Jamaica. What a result. #CommonwealthGames #Jamaica #Netball

A lot of webs but no spiders, I thought, as I tackled some exuberant bramble growing over the wall from next door and having a detrimental effect on our trellis. And then many things that had created those webs went scurrying. And many of those many things were bastard huge. Urgh. #Gardening

Yeah, that's right, you're reading the post of someone who just got an email notifying him that he'd won £3.50 on the EuroMillions!

Finally remembered where I'd heard that George Benson song before. Starsky & Hutch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFB9eLx6vs #TOTP

Why, yes, I have just been checking to see what rank in Starfleet Declan is. #TOTP

I did not need to see Mike Read's short shorts. #TOTP

Everyone's leaning the same way that the steering wheel is being turned. That's offending my sense of how physics works. #TOTP

Ma Ma Ma Ma! #TOTP

Love a bit of Detroit Emeralds. #TOTP

The 10000 metre walk race is currently taking place in the Commonwealth Games. It is a sport in need of technology to enforce proper walking. Magnetic boots that only disengage from a metal track when the paired boot connects would do it. #CommonwealthGames

It's been a Three Meetings day and that's three more than I consider to be the optimum number of meetings anyone should have to deal with.

Our ability in Anthropeum to pick Mexico when it's Peru and vice versa, or China when it's Japan and vice versa, or Ethiopia when it's Nigeria and vice versa is surely unparalleled. #Anthropeum

Doing my best Count Von Count impression in the garden: "Two! Two bats! Ah, ah, ah!" #Garden #Bats

We should sell tickets to our garden nature experience*. 20:30 to 21:15, enjoy the thrill of a dragonfly making passes within ten centimetres of your head. From 21:15 to 22:30 it's the turn of up to three bats to flap by close enough to your face to cause draughts. * Nature experience not […]

We've got a friend celebrating the twentieth anniversary of her fiftieth birthday in a few months, an event that warrants a fancy dress party. Great, we thought, because we've got fancy dress costumes that we've worn on a few Halloween cruises in recent years. But no. It's going to be a "bad […]

We used to have a shallow, plastic bowl in the garden and kept it topped up with water as a bath and drinking spot for the birds, and they used it a lot, especially pigeons and blackbirds. But it was very dirty, difficult to clean, looked awful. So we bought a ceramic bowl recently with […]

Great competition between the two Aussie high jumpers of Patterson and Olyslagers to take gold and silver, with the latter of those barely stopping smiling throughout. Also, Adeshina in bronze for Nigeria was ecstatic with her finish. So good to see. #CommonwealthGames #HighJump