Watching the return of the NASA asteroid sample mission, just about to return to earth. Live in the pub (as one does). Can’t help thinking about the Andromeda Strain…

I’m not quite sure how to explain what’s happened tonight, because it’s still happening - but here goes… At 4:40pm I jumped on a train from London to Edinburgh.. It was comfy, it was quiet In hindsight, too good to last…

It is a damp, chilly and misty November Sunday. And the only recourse is to light a fire, relish a full fry up, read the paper and, later, head to the pub. The day is mapped out perfectly.

Listen… With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall.

Expressively sullen and glowering cloud this evening. A ‘crepuscular kindness’ for the city (one of my favourite expressions from A. A. Gill).

“Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk himself out of his five senses.” The Merry Wives Of Windsor: Act 1, Scene 1

Can’t beat pizza and negroni for lunch! That’s me done. Lush pizza Napoli - black olives, anchovies, capers - so fresh. At the Rustic Crumb, Farnsfield.

The day is mapped out. No time for originality here: a read of the Saturday paper by the fire. Then prepping a pork shoulder for a slow oven cook while we are in the pub. All the trimmings. Round off with the new episode of #doctorwho 👌

Oh yes. Come on Christmas! Up and running here in the cottage.

With the BBC calling Reform ‘far right’, and members of the Home Office allegedly advocating violence against Farage, attacks like this are inevitable. They want their political opponents to be in physical danger.

Culinary craziness. And lo! Heston has reared himself a throne. It’s a sign of the end of days I am sure. 😩 threads.net/@secret.london…

I want to see the alternative world version with Tom Hanks as Edward. Mind. Blown.

It’s the rogue apostrophe in “weirdo’s” that puts me off…

Look, if one is bored we still need exam invigilators. Then one can watch vegetables decompose.

The scale of the microscopic. 📽: MetaBallStudios

What animal is this?

Alpaca without its wool

So this is how I die

I love how if you have a pet, that pet has a name, then about 10 different variations on that name that you also call it, and then an additional 2-3 completely different nicknames. Nobody has more names than one pet. It must be quite confusing for them.

Earth and Moon as seen from 1.44 billion kilometers away in Saturn orbit...