Lizzie Boyle

Congratulations, Jess - so well deserved!!! Sign me up for the box set 😍

Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930). Just radiating out of the scteen, equal parts swagger and softness (well, maybe 60/40 on the swagger). 😍

And cleanse…

Now I realise that was several weeks ago - oops!

I thought you were walking up mountains… was that to get a good spot to watch the Tour go by?

Even if you’re not fussed about cycling, you should watch this! A short summary of EF Education’s day at the Tour de France and how an Irish Brummie and his teammates found a way to take the fabled yellow jersey. Beautiful editing and a cute doggo too!

For the board gamers: played Forest Shuffle for the first time this weekend. Lovely vibe - there’s something soothing about games based on nature. Simple basic mechanic; emergent complexity. Lots of iconography so it can be hard to follow everything. A lot of fun! (Pic from BoardGameGeek)

Sometimes you just need to hang out with next door’s cat. This is Rebel; say hi!

And just as fabulous 😍

Whatever you do, don’t calculate how old George Wendt was when he played Norm in Cheers…

Definitely don’t…

[Waits while you look it up and realise that you now feel proper old]

So you’ll listen to me next time, right?

RIP George

I’m very happy being Darth Latte… evil *and* frothy 😀

For the board gamers among you: our first game of Hegemony. It’s superb. Looks sooo complex but the gameplay is straightforward once you get going, and there are great interactions between players with different strategies. 😍

One for the nerds 😉

Tis the season for #festival line-up announcements.

Do you remember when we did the thing of aiming for headliner parity? A Good Thing that now seems to have vanished, not by any political decree but presumably because of the decisions of festival organisers.

Representation matters. Try harder.

Thank you???

Eve Eve is one of our most recognisable cheeses with its beautiful, vine leaf wrap. It is a soft, goat's milk cheese washed in Somerset cider brandy, which, alongside the leaf wrap allows this cheese to d...

As was the Eve - a super runny goats cheese wrapped in vine leaves for extra nom…

whitelake.co.uk/products/eve...

Baron Bigod - Fen Farm Dairy

The bracing walk also helped after eating bodyweight in cheese this weekend.

The Baron Bigod was off the charts good…

www.fenfarmdairy.co.uk/baron-bigod/

Monday. Felt the need for a henge. Found a henge.

This might have been a little ambitious…

Here’s some London snow from last weekend. We now have Somerset snow too ⛄️

I can highly recommend the Electric Dreams exhibition at the Tate Modern and the F1 exhibition at Excel, if you’re in the Big Smoke any time soon 😀

If you need me, I’ll be watching Casablanca whilst doing a Frankenstein themed jigsaw. Aaah, Boxing Day…!

My feed is all @danpgwatters.bsky.social and @dialhforhagai.bsky.social sharing book recommendations of the JG Ballard / Jeff VanDerMeer apocolypto-dystopio* variety and I couldn’t be happier…

* yes, this definitely the right name for the genre

Hey folks! Why not listen to my ridiculously niche podcast, featuring 2500 years of scientific history, 1 week of biathlon reviews and me attempting to speak Finnish?!? All that and more in just 25 glorious minutes!

Gina Lollobrigida and Jennifer Jones this evening… (Beat the Devil, dir. John Huston, 1953, a film where absolutely everyone is hustling…)

Even more noir beauty: Louis Jourdan….

And for balance, here’s Gregory Peck… (the glow is a lamp here, sorry, Alf!)

Just a little Alida Valli moment for you… (from The Paradine Case, 1947, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

This was Thursday. My beloved Bellatrix bandmates and I took the stage at the Cheese and Grain, Frome (the bar stage, not the main stage, not quite yet) and played a bunch of rowdy angry girl songs.

Thanks to all who came to boogie 💕💕

The #biathlon World Cup season starts this week and I’m here to make you care!!! Time to embrace your new winter sports obsession!!

(Prompt, not promote)