Cluster Block🌈 🍉
@clusterblock.bsky.social
Food, buildings and idiosyncratic left opinions. Mostly harmless.
He/him. East London gay.
Dysgwr Cymraeg.
He/him. East London gay.
Dysgwr Cymraeg.
I’ve been eating 70% chocolate and it’s ruined normal milk chocolate for me. It seems unpleasantly sweet. Sad, really.
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I’ve been eating 70% chocolate and it’s ruined normal milk chocolate for me. It seems unpleasantly sweet. Sad, really.
Explain your username:
It’s a fun kind of tower block that we have in east London
It’s a fun kind of tower block that we have in east London
Explain your username
I wanted to follow a person I was in a mildly complicated relationship with on Instagram, so they could send me nail pics, without our mutual acquaintances seeing my name pop up.b I was in France at the time, so using Pierre was natural, and Pierre Dipshit just sounded funny.
I wanted to follow a person I was in a mildly complicated relationship with on Instagram, so they could send me nail pics, without our mutual acquaintances seeing my name pop up.b I was in France at the time, so using Pierre was natural, and Pierre Dipshit just sounded funny.
Explain your username
I went by my real name for a long time because if i chose a joke name i would overthink it and stress myself out. Then i got a temp job in a call centre for a bank where i had to email customers using my actual human name and decided to change my handle to a lazy variant
I went by my real name for a long time because if i chose a joke name i would overthink it and stress myself out. Then i got a temp job in a call centre for a bank where i had to email customers using my actual human name and decided to change my handle to a lazy variant
December 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Explain your username:
It’s a fun kind of tower block that we have in east London
It’s a fun kind of tower block that we have in east London
Why do the Americans not make musicals any more?
December 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Why do the Americans not make musicals any more?
Petition for a second Spanish-language festive song to be introduced to the anglosphere.
youtu.be/EJl6nSVVrlg?...
youtu.be/EJl6nSVVrlg?...
Riu riu chiu: villancico, 16th c. Spain
YouTube video by Eric Boulanger
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Petition for a second Spanish-language festive song to be introduced to the anglosphere.
youtu.be/EJl6nSVVrlg?...
youtu.be/EJl6nSVVrlg?...
Not sure if Heros of Telemark will proove to be a Christmas film. There is certainly snow.
December 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Not sure if Heros of Telemark will proove to be a Christmas film. There is certainly snow.
My husband has put on the Muppet Christmas Carol, which i’ve not seen before.
Michael Caine is in it, but the rest of the casting seems rather odd. There’s a load of Americans in it for some reason?
Seems very jolly anyway.
Michael Caine is in it, but the rest of the casting seems rather odd. There’s a load of Americans in it for some reason?
Seems very jolly anyway.
December 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My husband has put on the Muppet Christmas Carol, which i’ve not seen before.
Michael Caine is in it, but the rest of the casting seems rather odd. There’s a load of Americans in it for some reason?
Seems very jolly anyway.
Michael Caine is in it, but the rest of the casting seems rather odd. There’s a load of Americans in it for some reason?
Seems very jolly anyway.
Phoned my parents but our cousin was doing a recital so it wasn’t a good time.
This sort of thing never happened before they moved back to Wales.
This sort of thing never happened before they moved back to Wales.
December 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Phoned my parents but our cousin was doing a recital so it wasn’t a good time.
This sort of thing never happened before they moved back to Wales.
This sort of thing never happened before they moved back to Wales.
Dim pannas, dim parti!
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Dim pannas, dim parti!
Can’t wait to get stuck into these! With 6 players the intra-family competitiveness can really shine.
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Can’t wait to get stuck into these! With 6 players the intra-family competitiveness can really shine.
Husband loves his frog wellies
December 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Husband loves his frog wellies
Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!
Lots of people don’t like mince pies, because they’ve only had bought ones.
But home made ones to my mum’s recipe (5 1/2oz butter and 1oz lard to 8oz flour. And a half tsp brandy in with the mincemeat) are incredible.
But home made ones to my mum’s recipe (5 1/2oz butter and 1oz lard to 8oz flour. And a half tsp brandy in with the mincemeat) are incredible.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Lots of people don’t like mince pies, because they’ve only had bought ones.
But home made ones to my mum’s recipe (5 1/2oz butter and 1oz lard to 8oz flour. And a half tsp brandy in with the mincemeat) are incredible.
But home made ones to my mum’s recipe (5 1/2oz butter and 1oz lard to 8oz flour. And a half tsp brandy in with the mincemeat) are incredible.
Relatable final line in Nigella’s ginger beer ham recipe, regarding slicing:
“I try to get someone else to do this.”
www.nigella.com/recipes/ging...
“I try to get someone else to do this.”
www.nigella.com/recipes/ging...
Ginger-Glazed Ham
This gammon is simply simmered in ginger ale and, although you need to strip off the rind to glaze it, the glaze is straightforward. And it is a very efficient way of cooking — depending on how many y...
www.nigella.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Relatable final line in Nigella’s ginger beer ham recipe, regarding slicing:
“I try to get someone else to do this.”
www.nigella.com/recipes/ging...
“I try to get someone else to do this.”
www.nigella.com/recipes/ging...
Thanks for your response!
Everybody love an angry bad faith reply from someone they don’t know from Adam.
Merry Christmas!
Everybody love an angry bad faith reply from someone they don’t know from Adam.
Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Thanks for your response!
Everybody love an angry bad faith reply from someone they don’t know from Adam.
Merry Christmas!
Everybody love an angry bad faith reply from someone they don’t know from Adam.
Merry Christmas!
Lego was so much better when the sets made different things, even things you made up yourself, rather than a single branded IP item.
#Christmas 1982: Toys and Musical Instruments & Art Supplies from Hyde's
(+LEGOLAND Space X15 Satellite Launcher; Technic LEGO Go-Kart; LEGOLAND Town Service Station; Basic Set 555; Ride-On/Push-Along; Duplo Building Set; Basic Set 333; The Traditional Teddy Bear; Tool Set; Bead Frame, and more)
(+LEGOLAND Space X15 Satellite Launcher; Technic LEGO Go-Kart; LEGOLAND Town Service Station; Basic Set 555; Ride-On/Push-Along; Duplo Building Set; Basic Set 333; The Traditional Teddy Bear; Tool Set; Bead Frame, and more)
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Lego was so much better when the sets made different things, even things you made up yourself, rather than a single branded IP item.
Sick of washing up already
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Sick of washing up already
Our neighbour, in the lift, asked if the police car outside last night was to do with us.
My crimes remain undetected, i reassure her.
My crimes remain undetected, i reassure her.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Our neighbour, in the lift, asked if the police car outside last night was to do with us.
My crimes remain undetected, i reassure her.
My crimes remain undetected, i reassure her.
I just tutted so witheringly that a woman on the Picadilly line stopped playing videos out loud on her phone.
I’m drunk on power.
I’m drunk on power.
December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I just tutted so witheringly that a woman on the Picadilly line stopped playing videos out loud on her phone.
I’m drunk on power.
I’m drunk on power.
I dislike the sneering attitude of that I Didn’t Come Here for Art song.
If an event is aimed above your basic sensibility, you can simply leave.
If an event is aimed above your basic sensibility, you can simply leave.
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I dislike the sneering attitude of that I Didn’t Come Here for Art song.
If an event is aimed above your basic sensibility, you can simply leave.
If an event is aimed above your basic sensibility, you can simply leave.
Not sure what to get for my niece. Maybe a dog?
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Not sure what to get for my niece. Maybe a dog?
Rather stumpy carrots from the community garden but they’ll be enough for our christmas dinner
December 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Rather stumpy carrots from the community garden but they’ll be enough for our christmas dinner
I find audibly autotuned voices absolutely unbearable.
I have to immediately change radio station, like when Bob Dylan comes on.
I have to immediately change radio station, like when Bob Dylan comes on.
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I find audibly autotuned voices absolutely unbearable.
I have to immediately change radio station, like when Bob Dylan comes on.
I have to immediately change radio station, like when Bob Dylan comes on.
I’ve not cooked a cotechino before. It’s a really big sausage, and you boil it in its sheath.
December 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I’ve not cooked a cotechino before. It’s a really big sausage, and you boil it in its sheath.