There was a blissful period a few months ago I wasn't getting any junk mail. But then we signed up with an estate agent and oh, what a surprise, it's all come flooding back. Same as every other time I've signed up with an estate agent.
The baby's been chanting 'Dad Dad Dad' again. Which is pretty cute but would be cuter if it didn't sound like 'Dad dead dead' half the time.
A Guardian image of someone covered head to toe in nappies, looking like the Michelin Man. The headline reads 'The smell wasn't healthy: the artist who wore 24 nappies to highlight sewage pollution and fell ill'.
I always knew the Michelin Man was full of shit.
The baby loves swimming so much, she's started trying to do it whenever she sees water. In front of running taps. Watching the washing machine. The little legs start kicking.
I can't describe this. A man wearing a giant silver circular foam outfit and carrying a fire extinguisher?
The fire extinguisher teams are... extraordinary.
Spacesuits that look like the Michelin man.
The costumes in this one are universally terrible even by 70s standards - lots of people wrapped in stiff, squeaky plastic tarps, half of which are poo-brown. The Michelin spacesuits are particularly impressive, though. And by 'impressive' I mean 'risking a trademark lawsuit'.
Oh, and the only real iconic creation from the Chibnall era: the one and only Benni! This one's got everything!
Ronald Lacey in Blake's 7, with a big 70s coif.
Started watching Blake's 7: Killer. Who would have thought Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark had such a magnificent head of hair.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
New LEGO set for our times
I'm so sorry you're having to go through this again. It's obscene that they're allowed to get away with it.
Whenever I'm making model buildings I can't get over how *big* they are. I have to keep checking the reference because I think I've got the scale wrong. But no, it's not uncommon for ground floors to be 2-3 times the height of a person. Like trees, buildings are just much taller than you think.
A partially complete model building: a baroque corner-building with the bottom three storeys complete and parts of the upper ones taped on in basic white card.
Wife and baby were out today so I managed to make some great progress on this scratch-build. OO-scale (1:76.2). Painted all the first and second floors and made a start on the third. Wired up the interior lighting too.
Folks, I am about to express an opinion
I've had thoughts about it for a while and I'm finally ready to put it out there
*deep breath*
Can the adults who write a swear word and replace one of the letters with an asterisk please stop?
Are you 5?
Is your audience comprised of 5 year olds?
I'm involved in this!
🎵✏️ Jamigraphy: Writing as rhythm, movement, and embodiment
21 March
10am-1pm, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4ccYeHD
Explore rhythms of writing to music in this participatory workshop led by artist Alice Mazzilli in collaboration with Pippa Steele of @viewsproject.bsky.social
I remember a printed newspaper map (I think the Times) where both Crete and Cyprus were labelled 'Crete'.
(Or possibly both 'Cyprus' - it was a long time ago. Caused much amusement on the dig I was on at the time, though).
Amateurs think about the Roman Empire. Pros think about the Bronze Age city states.
Actually, present that style of humour slightly slower and you basically have The Orville. So, yeah, that holds up. I never found it funny but I did watch and broadly enjoy the whole thing.
I felt like if you slowed it down 25% it would be watchable. Still not funny, but not so actively irritating.
I thought I was the only one who couldn't get on with Lower Decks. Quintessential American 'shouting, talking fast and making references to alcohol is comedy gold' animation. I don't think I got beyond episode 4.
She was making some good dinosaur shrieks yesterday.
My face literally hurt from laughing so much. I got no work done all afternoon. Just the best day.
Remember Four Seasons Total Landscaping day on Twitter? No reason. Just to feel a bit happier.
As I have said before, though, long legs and shorter arms is much preferable to the other way round.
The baby's managed the impressive feat of having her legs grow out of a babygro before her arms have grown into it.
Forget Live Love Laugh, it's time for Lift, Laugh, Leak.
How bad did it get? At one point I seriously tried hiding a pack of nappies in the washing machine but it was visible through the door.
We've had a photographer round taking estate agents' photos today, after a hellish fortnight of trying to hide all our clutter. Now comes the sequel: trying to remember *where* we hid everything.
At least it has the excuse of being old and low-budget; in the last couple of weeks I've seen some pretty terrible examples in Stranger Things and The Night Manager and I'm not sure I've ever even noticed ADR before then.
