Juniperific

And then we got on the bus…
(Lot of other people in suit and tie on buses in East London at midday on the weekend, as you can imagine… still, ❤️ being here with the world’s most wonderful woman - and soon my hair will be long enough for the red treatment too, eh?)

The bugs on the crops in Somerset seem to have really gotten out of hand. As seen in Bath, Somerset:

Be warned Crouch Hill, you might think Nigel Farage hasn’t found lefty London, but he has snuck a party office in using a sneaky stealth strategy:

So pleased I can finally stream this beautifully raw and brilliant song on Apple Music - though have to admit it’s more fun to see the cat on YouTube. Love it.

I would but I'll be listening on Apple Music!

Photography tips: it is unflattering to shoot with a wide angle from near the face AND, it seems, unflattering to ask your subject to pull a ‘Jeremy’ expression… (that's my excuse…)

Don’t know what you’re complaining about. Easily amongst the 7 best years of the decade.

"Some books make reading an irresistible joy, and The Notwitches is one of them." The I Paper 14 Best Children's Books of 2025

"The dialogue feels indebted to the surrealist humour of Blackadder or Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the short, funny chapters zip along. A triumph of nonsense." The Times Children's Book of the Week

"Brimming with magical moments, loathesome villains, unexpected heroes and an almost-talking cat, The Notwitches has a big heart and the spirit and effervescence of Roald Dahl." Lancashire Post

"Gary Panton writes with an unmatvhed exuberance. I've not laughed so hard when reading a book for a very lomg time." Armadillo online magazine

Apols for invading your timelines with shameless self-promotion but if your kids received gift cards for Christmas, might I suggest pointing them in the direction of my Notwitches books? They've had some very nice things said about them lately, and book 1 was in The I Paper's 14 Best Books of 2025.🧙‍♀️

Former MI5 HQ by Vauxhall Bridge in London

Today I “had” to walk halfway across London. The spies were watching me, I tell you…

Monochrome image of a curving path in the mist with silhouettes of people and street lights with high contrast. East London.

Scenic cheerful shot caught on my walk to a family Christmas visit! Happy Holidays 😀🎄

At least it’s not the end of the toilet roll

Bath cathedral with a weird projection on it

As seen in Bath yesterday, is it a Cathedral or is it that blood cells diagram from my school textbooks? Platelet counts don’t feel very Christmassy to me!

I remember when it was plural!

Though perhaps some veiled threats about explosives might get the kids at the back to behave.

Amazing and interesting lecture too, as well as reassuring to know that we’ve got a little longer before the machines take over - we’ll, of their own choice any way.

T-Rex suit wearing person looking at fried chicken shop in east London

Can a T-Rex feel like chicken tonight?
Why not?

Love you Ari and don’t mind a bit.

By the way, read carefully observers: I offered no hypothesis of my own, just a cup of tea.

There are some video games companies who might give you work though, eh?

‪Consult the pages of policy relating to attractiveness as laid out by the HR team…? (Guess you’ll find out what they like at least!)‬

Plus it’s difficult to imagine Reform knowing how to maintain a country’s sewage system (or power, water, gas… ok, they make a lot of ‘gas’ from their mouths…) but anyway…

Given his line of work, presumably so long as the urine is heated to boiling and infused with tea all is fine?

Love you very much - and, as ever, it was a pleasure eating out with you while not being recorded for the assessment of Channel 4’s viewers (presumably we wouldn’t quite qualify as ‘first date’)

I’m the best at sp… spe…. sp…. wording! ❤️

“I know” (but I don’t want to ‘complete’ life - I’m at the best level already)

Don’t I sound just the best person to be out with? Never causing a scene (though to be fair here it’s virtually impossible to!)

The fact ‘fair cars’ is boarded up doesn’t seem to be terribly encouraging for either its fairness or the fairness of capitalism as a structure for—— oh, I’ll stop this, I sound like a [bleep]

Well, he’s still in love. That’s not stopping any time soon. Just ask those boxes he’s just built.

A skeleton lying on a bed in a shop

The shop assistant will be along in a minute and you really shouldn’t make a fuss…

So we type in our address and the Telegraph notes down our data tells us what it thinks of us? I reckon I know what that lot think of me already…

I’m happy every day because of you, my brilliant star. Honoured to be that man for you. Love you completely (and that is really all there is to say on the subject - but I doubt that’ll stop me telling you :) ❤️)