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That snail shell is fabulous!

Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. A cliff edge. The top of the cliff is bright white with blue spots here and there, while the sides of the cliff are pink and brown striped. In the distance, on the left, we see the ocean, with some purple hills on the horizon. The bottom of the sky is bright yellow which gradually fades to white. In the sky, a huge stylised cloud, slightly like a group of different sized tear drops on their sides, one behind the other. A similar cloud is seen nearer to the horizon. On the cliff, we find an invitation - someone in a smart, buttoned up top and long skirt (which are all grey) and also wearing a big cartoony rabbit head (which is all in primary colours) is gesturing us towards a ladder that is next to them. It goes straight up, off the top of the picture and is slightly rickety looking.

New picture:

By the way, this is my thirty-second picture of 2026. What do I want, a fucking medal? Yes please.

Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. A cliff edge. The top of the cliff is bright white with blue spots here and there, while the sides of the cliff are pink and brown striped. In the distance, on the left, we see the ocean, with some purple hills on the horizon. The bottom of the sky is bright yellow which gradually fades to white. In the sky, a huge stylised cloud, slightly like a group of different sized tear drops on their sides, one behind the other. A similar cloud is seen nearer to the horizon. On the cliff, we find an invitation - someone in a smart, buttoned up top and long skirt (which are all grey) and also wearing a big cartoony rabbit head (which is all in primary colours) is gesturing us towards a ladder that is next to them. It goes straight up, off the top of the picture and is slightly rickety looking.

New picture:

There is a painting by Monet in the National Gallery where, if you look closely, you can see grains of sand that were blown into the picture while he painted on the beach.
Similarly, a few of my pictures contain greasy spots from Quavers.

Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. We have someone stood at the very edge of an enormous hole in the ground or a canyon or something, but this is all very simplified - it's like the ground is the top of a box and where it leads down into the canyon is like the side of that same box. This is all red, dark blue and white striped, as is a distant hill. The person stood at the edge... well, they have black trousers, a red jacket and they are playing a blue guitar. However, where you would normally find a person's head is instead balanced a big block of dripping ice, and contained within it are a brown bowler hat and two human skulls. One of the skulls has a third eye socket in the forehead.

New picture, which is a good picture if you like guitars, stripes, skulls, bowler hats or pictures.

Happy birthday!

I had one of these. When my mum used to do the ironing, she looked forward to this being next in the basket. A little insight into our exciting Sunday afternoons.

Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. A landscape made up of many hills, all pink, turquoise and white striped. On the horizon, the glow of sunrise, caught on the edge of all the hills. Over this landscape, a monstrous thing walks; its head, seen in profile, is almost skull-like. Long yellow teeth and a yellow eye, its head gets wider as it goes up and then stops at a straight edge. On the side of this head is a house surrounded by tall, leafless trees that stretch out behind the creature. Its neck and thin body are a straight horizontal line coming out of the bottom of the head. Out of the body emerge two legs and an arm with outstretched hand. Its other arm is doing the same thing but coming out of the top of its head. Next to the house can be seen very tiny people standing, although several have fallen off and are heading towards the ground.

New picture

Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. A landscape made up of many hills, all pink, turquoise and white striped. On the horizon, the glow of sunrise, caught on the edge of all the hills. Over this landscape, a monstrous thing walks; its head, seen in profile, is almost skull-like. Long yellow teeth and a yellow eye, its head gets wider as it goes up and then stops at a straight edge. On the side of this head is a house surrounded by tall, leafless trees that stretch out behind the creature. Its neck and thin body are a straight horizontal line coming out of the bottom of the head. Out of the body emerge two legs and an arm with outstretched hand. Its other arm is doing the same thing but coming out of the top of its head. Next to the house can be seen very tiny people standing, although several have fallen off and are heading towards the ground.

New picture

Leonor Fini e Leonora Carrington

1952 • Denise Colomb

Yes. This is why I've turned the TV off and am looking at that Best Albums poll you've drawn my attention to :)

Oh.

#TOTP

Oh no

This TOTP is from the day before I was born! Let's see what sort of world I was coming into.

Forgot The Offspring did Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da
#TOTP

Oh not THIS again.
*long sigh, checks watch to see how far away we are from Kylie's 'Spinning Around' and seeing it's about fourteen months away*
#TOTP

"YOU bought the records..."
Kate Thornton making it quite clear at the top of the show that we are to blame.
#TOTP

They rightly turned down the Busta Rhymes collaboration though

Oh, I see what's going on. Well, sort of.

I think maybe Norman Cook has won this battle by not turning up. #TOTP

(I managed to work there for a fortnight before deciding, actually, I like using the night for sleep instead)

This S Club 7 song always reminds me of a when I was in a minibus on my way to a salad packing factory for the night, and there was a girl who kept singing this.
#TOTP

1998, watching TOTP.
Dad: what's this rubbish?
Me: oh, you don't understand!

2026, watching TOTP.
Daughter: what's this rubbish?
Me: oh, you don't understand!

YouTube video by Gorillaz Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God

Let's have more hand-drawn animation. This is absolutely lovely.

Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. We have someone stood at the very edge of an enormous hole in the ground or a canyon or something, but this is all very simplified - it's like the ground is the top of a box and where it leads down into the canyon is like the side of that same box. This is all red, dark blue and white striped, as is a distant hill. The person stood at the edge... well, they have black trousers, a red jacket and they are playing a blue guitar. However, where you would normally find a person's head is instead balanced a big block of dripping ice, and contained within it are a brown bowler hat and two human skulls. One of the skulls has a third eye socket in the forehead.

New picture, which is a good picture if you like guitars, stripes, skulls, bowler hats or pictures.

In a woodland clearing, several starlings are flapping round and eating. The one nearest to the camera is shimmering green and blue and black and flecked with tiny comets of white.

I've got a birdcam playing through YouTube on the TV at the moment and - aren't starlings beautiful? Get close enough to them and it's like a universe is going on in their feathers.

I'm sorry to hear that, and I hope you're as okay as you can be at the moment.

I'm so used to waking up to terrible news these days that this has quite startled me. Amazing. More stuff like this please.