Brother Bikini

Australian historian Manning Clark and his wife Dymphna

Dang, I want to meet a woman called Dymphna. That's a fantastic name. I've met an Ernestine. I was thrilled to bits.

A Negroni cocktail

Looking down on a Notocatus ubelmannianus with four purple flowers each with a bright yellow centre

that one overhangs it and obscures it, and you can't expect me to remember that I've bought something like buttermilk! So now I have half a gallon of the stuff. I hear that American style buttermilk pancakes freeze well.

I'm drinking a modified Negroni. Not "my take on" or "a twist on". Modified.

I bought buttermilk today planning on making a buttermilk cake. I bought beer too. When I went to put the beer on the shelf at the bottom of the fridge door there was an unopened quart carton of buttermilk (best before tomorrow) staring me in the mush. I'd forgotten about it because the shelf above

YouTube video by ViennaPhilVEVO Daniel Barenboim, Leo Délibes - Sylvia: Pizzicati

#WhatsOnTheWireless? One of those pieces of music you know because it's been used in numerous TV ads and for its comic effect in plenty of TV comedies and films, like The Skaters Waltz, that bit from Romeo and Juliet and whatever the piece is when they want sadness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTXT...

Fraid not. My skills aren't up to fondant fancy level yet, but you're welcome to as many as you like 🍰

Oh, is that what it was? I thought it might have been @richeyhell.bsky.social hitting puberty.

Sorry you've got the hump FiJ. Will this help?

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

FDR? He's not even a Dan Quayle.

To be completely honest I don't want to drive at all unless it's somewhere mostly or completely free of other vehicles, like a desert or any other kind of wilderness. On a racetrack might be fun.

Horrible, isn't it. For me, ten minutes to the local Indian food shop in a car. On the bus (two changes) an hour if I'm lucky, two if I'm not. But I don't ever want to drive again in a city.

fry from futurama is making a silly face with his eyes closed ALT: fry from futurama is making a silly face with his eyes closed

*Not sure if that's another joke or a comment about the joke*

A pair of teddy boy style brothel creeper shoes with a thick sole

My girlfriend said the soles on my new shoes were crepe. I said there's nothing wrong with them, they're all the fashion!

The best answer by a British person to any question:

"Not really. Could be."

Two screenshots of Julie Goodyear from a 1967 episode of 'The Fellows (Late of Room 17)' as a waitress serving cups of tea in a cafe

As an added bonus here's Bet before she was Bet.

YouTube video by redodark Bet Lynch's Legs - Riders In The Sky

This musical #DFCOC is a gem from the truly wonderful Absurd label (ABSURD 10), and one of my favourite band names of all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Y-...

"Former International Agent of Chaos" should be in your bio, although the way things are in the world today it might get you a visit from the security services.

I should bloody coco! 9pm? Unless there are people from other time zones involved, there's no bloody need for that.

I could murder an Unsworth's pork pie right now, if it didn't murder me first.

A can of Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA poured into a glass

That scene from Withnail and I where an obnoxious copper is yelling "Get in the back of the van" at Richard E Grant

Dang, I could have sworn there was something else. It took me four attempts to type that last word correctly by the way. What the bloody buggery bollocks is wrong with my fingers?. No, I'm not drunk, but I will be later. I've only had a few ales officer #GetInTheBackOfTheVan!!!!

Two photos of a Kalanchoe delagoensis succulent with two stems topped with flower clusters which are almost finished and being replace by seed pods

Jeff's blooms are just about done and he's setting seed. Not bad considering he was outside for one day's worth of freeze and then indoors in a dark corner for several days during another. I think he bloomed for a few months all together. Well done Jeff. Now what happens? Do you keep growing?

Another bloody phone update! The last one was only a few weeks ago! What do they need to fix/are going to add that I don't want/will hide a really useful thing in a really hard to find place this time. Now I have to find some bloody wi-fi to download it with because it nags me several times a day.

Clever.

This was a bit spooky last night. I was watching an old Parkinson from 1973 or '74. Parky's only guest was Andy Williams, and after five or ten minutes he gets up to sing Neil Sedaka's song Solitaire. And whose death was reported yesterday?

You came out with your sanity in one piece. That's the best anyone can hope for.

What he said.

A Manhattan cocktail

Keith Floyd in a BBC voiceover studio looking very happy with a bottle of wine to one side of the picture and a paper BBC cup in his hand

carrot. I don't think I'm going to use this recipe again. I prefer Floyd's. It's tastier. You can skip straight to 2m 30s for Keith's attempt at the dish in that video by the way. For a change, I'm not having it as a side dish, it's the main dish this time. Bit of a cock up on the catering front.

YouTube video by Paul Gilmore Floyds India Mumbai (Bombay) Ep3

it up to now using Keith Floyd's recipe, and *smug look* my own home made pav bhaji masala and tinned tomatoes. But this time I made it with a recipe someone sent me, originally from the Grauniad I think and using passata instead of fresh/tinned tomatoes, and with
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvKD...

Pav bhaji - Wikipedia

I've made one of my favourite curry side dishes today, pav bhaji. I think of it as a side dish but it's really a popular Mumbai street food served with a roll. It's onions, tomatoes, potatoes, cauliflower, peas, spices and lots of butter. At least that's how I've made
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pav_bhaji

YouTube video by twoodfrd Guitar Repair: Amusing Diversions and Blather

Come for the guitar repair expertise, stay for the YouTube education.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyaU...

Pulled a neck muscle. Blowing my nose. In bed. Ow.