Yes, it does. Startstruck (Rose Matafeo) is more recent, reverses the genders, and ends more realistically, but in a no less satisfying way.

Margaret Fulton cookbook (Australian classic c.1970) has the best mince pie recipe but you needed to have made the mince five or six weeks ago to start cooking pies now. It’s all in the booze …

Well played sir: ‘a bit of musicality, please’

Also Friday. Got ahead of the festivities curve. Might do new years tomorrow.

looking you in the eye whilst doing so?

Sooo, ‘Vikings’ is a contemporary documentary?

Melbourne to London non-stop (refuelling in Darwin) … never again.

‘Foster kittens’ you say, new resident scamperbeasts they say.

The illustrated man. Bradbury.

Mmmm, pretty sure they were wallabies we just passed on the train.

Yay!, and yes, he is awesome. I look forward to riding my bike again in about three weeks (broke m’frigging elbow).!

Where??? Qld?

You and ‘first dog on the moon’ brighten my day

Because my son gave me red shirts for Xmas and then my niece turned me on to Bluesky. Serendipity ? Propinquity?

Incredibly popular mini anatomical flip book, from start of 17thC to middle 18th. On another page there’s a gorgon’s head flap over the female reproductive organs. Which is really the only thing female bodies counted for in anatomy at the time. Go figure. Compare and contrast with recent UK law.

I never realised before how much Ringo looks like Larry.

Oh yes, my word, indeed y-do.