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What a beautiful day!
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What a beautiful day!
Sitting in the Pint Shop with a non alcoholic cloudy beer, awaiting a vegan burger and having a proper 30 min lunch before heading to St John’s College Chapel for carol concert. And Boys Don’t Cry is on the jukebox. End of term, Christmas off. Happy days! #cambridge
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sitting in the Pint Shop with a non alcoholic cloudy beer, awaiting a vegan burger and having a proper 30 min lunch before heading to St John’s College Chapel for carol concert. And Boys Don’t Cry is on the jukebox. End of term, Christmas off. Happy days! #cambridge
I had an irresistible urge to hear David Sylvian’s voice on Japan’s Nightporter. What an incredible piece of music it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZfM...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I had an irresistible urge to hear David Sylvian’s voice on Japan’s Nightporter. What an incredible piece of music it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZfM...
How dull was Game of Wool? Tedious. Awful judges, no wit or encouragement and the actual knitters looked terrified, stressed and about to snap. Or cry. No, format doesn’t work. No one wants knitting against the clock!
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How dull was Game of Wool? Tedious. Awful judges, no wit or encouragement and the actual knitters looked terrified, stressed and about to snap. Or cry. No, format doesn’t work. No one wants knitting against the clock!
It’s so much nicer here than the other place, isn’t it? I’m no social media junkie these days, but I like to check in every so often and I find myself more likely to post here than there. Obvs because you all rock…
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It’s so much nicer here than the other place, isn’t it? I’m no social media junkie these days, but I like to check in every so often and I find myself more likely to post here than there. Obvs because you all rock…
I think I’m fond of #PrunellaScales not for her long, creative career or even her adventures on a narrowboat but for that wonderful marriage with Timothy West. Imagine a love, a partnership that lasted 60 years. Wife, mother and actor, may you and your wonderful man journey well.
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I think I’m fond of #PrunellaScales not for her long, creative career or even her adventures on a narrowboat but for that wonderful marriage with Timothy West. Imagine a love, a partnership that lasted 60 years. Wife, mother and actor, may you and your wonderful man journey well.
I sometimes remind myself how lucky I am to work within a few minutes of Grantchester Meadows #Cambridge
October 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I sometimes remind myself how lucky I am to work within a few minutes of Grantchester Meadows #Cambridge
I’m just so bored of listening to Boris Johnson saying “I take full responsibility” for all the fuck ups, rip offs and sheer incompetences shown during the COVID era. And what consequences has he suffered? No, we pay for them…
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I’m just so bored of listening to Boris Johnson saying “I take full responsibility” for all the fuck ups, rip offs and sheer incompetences shown during the COVID era. And what consequences has he suffered? No, we pay for them…
Remembering Sean …
October 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Remembering Sean …
I have a new boat neighbour. He is an actor, currently working on #RingsofPower. He’s been filming in Wales this week and bought me a gift from the caves on the beach doubling for Númenor. I am incredibly touched by it - from the realm of Edain, ancestors of Gondor and Rohan.
August 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have a new boat neighbour. He is an actor, currently working on #RingsofPower. He’s been filming in Wales this week and bought me a gift from the caves on the beach doubling for Númenor. I am incredibly touched by it - from the realm of Edain, ancestors of Gondor and Rohan.
Sunning itself and totally not bothered by me or the dog! Whopper of a grass snake!
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sunning itself and totally not bothered by me or the dog! Whopper of a grass snake!
I know it’s not that simple. I’m not a politician, an economist or a diplomat and I’m certainly not a party political animal but fuck Trump. That’s my gut instinct. Fuck him and his soon-to-be-elected-dictatorship.
March 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I know it’s not that simple. I’m not a politician, an economist or a diplomat and I’m certainly not a party political animal but fuck Trump. That’s my gut instinct. Fuck him and his soon-to-be-elected-dictatorship.
I actually love the States and the people. I’ve spent a lot of time there and I appreciate all the wonderful things (as well as recognising the not so wonderful). But the current President and his lackeys are destroying everything good about it. I say enough.
March 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I actually love the States and the people. I’ve spent a lot of time there and I appreciate all the wonderful things (as well as recognising the not so wonderful). But the current President and his lackeys are destroying everything good about it. I say enough.
Ukraine should be supported. Canada, Greenland and Panama must be supported. We should not tiptoe around regime that changes its mind every day, threatens sovereign nations with annexation, bullies over trade. Enough.
March 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ukraine should be supported. Canada, Greenland and Panama must be supported. We should not tiptoe around regime that changes its mind every day, threatens sovereign nations with annexation, bullies over trade. Enough.
I think it’s time for reasonable countries, historically friends and allies of the USA, to temporarily turn their backs. Cut the country off. The only way. You want to play hardball? Then let’s play. We might be temporarily poorer economically, but my, we can be on the right side of this mess…
March 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I think it’s time for reasonable countries, historically friends and allies of the USA, to temporarily turn their backs. Cut the country off. The only way. You want to play hardball? Then let’s play. We might be temporarily poorer economically, but my, we can be on the right side of this mess…
Apparently The Cure released ‘A Forest’ 45 years ago today.
And I feel very old…
And I feel very old…
March 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Apparently The Cure released ‘A Forest’ 45 years ago today.
And I feel very old…
And I feel very old…
Drunk on power and fuelled by greed the orange burger-eating surrender monkey just showed the world his real face. Nasty.
March 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Drunk on power and fuelled by greed the orange burger-eating surrender monkey just showed the world his real face. Nasty.
When you get up, get organised and just before you leave for work the boss messages “don’t come in as everyone has Norovirus symptoms!”…
February 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
When you get up, get organised and just before you leave for work the boss messages “don’t come in as everyone has Norovirus symptoms!”…
First babies of the season…
February 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
First babies of the season…
Boat breakfast. Avocado, mushrooms, eggs with chilli jam and pumpkin seeds on sourdough. Perfect brunch.
February 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Boat breakfast. Avocado, mushrooms, eggs with chilli jam and pumpkin seeds on sourdough. Perfect brunch.
Little known fact-my mother was the drug squad officer who arrested Marianne Faithfull in 1967, alongside Jagger and Richards. Tough for my
Mum following orders as she adored the Stones and Marianne. But it was a piece of social cultural history which changed Britain. Sleep well beautiful woman.
Mum following orders as she adored the Stones and Marianne. But it was a piece of social cultural history which changed Britain. Sleep well beautiful woman.
January 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Little known fact-my mother was the drug squad officer who arrested Marianne Faithfull in 1967, alongside Jagger and Richards. Tough for my
Mum following orders as she adored the Stones and Marianne. But it was a piece of social cultural history which changed Britain. Sleep well beautiful woman.
Mum following orders as she adored the Stones and Marianne. But it was a piece of social cultural history which changed Britain. Sleep well beautiful woman.
I’ve got the day off. I didn’t get out of bed until 9am, I went out for breakfast to a local farm shop cafe, mooched around Ely and stocked up at Waitrose. My sort of lazy day ☺️
January 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’ve got the day off. I didn’t get out of bed until 9am, I went out for breakfast to a local farm shop cafe, mooched around Ely and stocked up at Waitrose. My sort of lazy day ☺️
@greatbritishmenu.bsky.social Ah, you’re here! So glad to see you as seldom use the ‘other place’. Great to have GBM back during these dark months. Huzzah!
January 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
@greatbritishmenu.bsky.social Ah, you’re here! So glad to see you as seldom use the ‘other place’. Great to have GBM back during these dark months. Huzzah!
Ice skating on the Fens at Upware, Cambridgeshire. Successive nights of -5° means the washes freeze and safe for skating. (Photo by Liz)
January 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Ice skating on the Fens at Upware, Cambridgeshire. Successive nights of -5° means the washes freeze and safe for skating. (Photo by Liz)