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Big John 😼
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John & 🌈 Gotti, getting irritated and acerbic. We cook with chillies, tinker with electronics, listen to music and The Golden Age of Radio. ♏️

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I’m quite happy with my current mutuals situation.

If you are going to bring nothing to the table except regurgitated political rhetoric, please don’t bother following me. You won’t get a follow back, and more likely blocked.
Electrical inspection done. I’m exhausted and feel ghastly. Needed to have eaten 3 hrs ago.

Rest now and find something easy to eat tonight.

Goddamn social care walk tomorrow. 🙁
January 22, 2026 at 11:03 AM
AM in for some breakfast, a rub and a purr.
January 22, 2026 at 7:15 AM
No bread flour this morning. Is this a concerted attack on home bakers by Sainsbury’s? Or big soya forcing us to eat their filth?
January 22, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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January 22, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Damn. Malwarebytes annual subscription went through, I had thought I had cancelled that. Don’t need that this month. Bugger.
January 22, 2026 at 4:04 AM
3:30.

Woke to a homesick Michael Bublé. Could be worse. I doubt I’ll get back to sleep now, worrying about this bloody electrical inspection. How much of a jobsworth is he going to be? Last guy made a meal of it, a bad case of little man syndrome, and my bulk was a red flag to a (diminutive) bull.
January 22, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Think I better try and get to sleep early tonight, all sorts of rubbish to deal with in the morning. Probably won’t sleep at all now, that’s the usual way with me. Wish I didn’t take so long to drop off, always amazed me how various partners had fallen asleep within minutes.
January 21, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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youtu.be/HIycD9Y_IPM?...

BILLIE HOLIDAY

'Strange Fruit'
Billie Holiday-Strange Fruit (Live)
YouTube video by bilieholidayonline
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January 21, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Hello old chap! AM come to see what I’m up to with the bin bag.
January 21, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I suppose I should check what is happening with the Trumpian hegemony, think I’m calm enough to handle all the crazy this evening.

I definitely sleep better, and have better days when I ghost the news.
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Odds and ends of deliveries, no apparent pattern. Princess Royal hub hanging on to my recipe book avariciously.

Need to put a formal enquiry in for the non-delivery of a packet of Sukku coffee. It’s such a bore, perhaps I’ll just let it drop and not order again.
January 21, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Refried the slow-roast from last night with chilli flakes. Had chips because zero carbs last night made no difference to my blood sugar this morning. Cholula chilli and lemon sauce. Very enjoyable.
January 21, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Bloody electric inspection tomorrow morning. They have reminded me twice today. No apology for not replying to my email regarding the possibility of the clash with Sainsbury’s delivery, (the electric distribution board is in porch) and my inability to move furniture for them.
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 PM
That’s enough for the day. Sitting much too long now.
January 21, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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In case you were in the market searching for an older car...
... or selling one! 😁

#cars #automobile #marketing #ads
January 21, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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"Long Valley Sunset," n.d.
Oil on panel, 6 x 9 in

Dakota Pitts (American, b.1989)
An emerging artist known for works that blend 19th-century realism with impressionistic qualities, focusing on the landscapes of the American West.

Private Collection
#art #painting #illustration
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Finished “Nobel House”, really enjoyed it, the narration lost nothing of the taste of the book.

Started “In A Yellow Wood”. One of my favourite Gore Vidal novels. Simple and perfect in my opinion, an old trope but captured with mastery.
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
January 21, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I had some of these. 😊 It’s nice to see they still make them.

My favourite plastic soldiers were the French Foreign Legion. They were a lovely blue. Airfix seems to have sold the moulds to Haï. I bought some a few years ago but it looks like they still use the 60s moulds, quality awful.
January 21, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Whats your sign?
January 21, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Like Marvin, I too have pain down my left hand side. Similar diode problems I suspect.

I’m out of cleaning solution now, so ibuprofen will have to do,
January 21, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Bin day tomorrow, and the guys are still trying to decide whether it’s landfill or recycling, Xmas / new year always confuses them more that the residents, and we get given a schedule that is a complete work of fiction.

Anyway, I better get everything clear. I may or may not have deliveries today.
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Poor Marvin is acting up again. I gave him a double dose of cleaning solution. I image it cleans different things to the descaler. Can’t afford a new coffee machine right now, even on the plastic.
January 21, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Them: What amazes you the most

Me: That I will never see all the colours in the universe
and how people humming awakens such primitive rage in me
January 21, 2026 at 9:26 AM