Sending you positive vibes. May things be sorted for you with as little extra stress as possible.

Acme to supply the giant catapult, I hope.

Oh good, that should keep you going.

This is exactly why we made sure my mum had access to over-ear headphones and BBC Sounds during her recent hospital stay. People can be very draining.

Close-up photo of cream camellia flower with dark green leaves and blue sky in the background

Clusters of pink and yellow crocuses amid the threadbare grass of an urban park

A host, a crowd of golden daffodils..? Just a small clump of them, in fact, but very golden.

Clump of small snowdrops amid leaf litter in an urban park.

Definite signs that Spring is on its way in the parks of Plymouth

Bob Symes riding a small steam train in his garden

#lifeGoals

May all that follows be as uncomplicated as possible.

A very loose, spare, painterly watercolour of a long view over a flat expansive landscape dotted with winter trees in broken sunshine under a cloudy sky

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
A February Day
Artist: Rowland Hilder

If tech comes up with something that does the old job better - the iPod, say, or the original smart phone - great. If it does it WORSE or not at all, that’s not a disruptive technology in any functional way. Why are we surrendering to it? Old media just keeps shrugging away. Oh well.

Rarely has a picture been more deserving of the caption "It's not what it looks like..!"

At long last we have invented the Nutri-Matic machine from the classic Sci-Fi novel "Don't Create the Nutri-Matic Machine"

Share & Enjoy! (Go stick your head in a pig)

Well that's tonight's earworm sorted.

Oh Moose, I have no words. I'm so sorry.

No new pictures.

Where are you at mentally?

“This stuff is really cheap. And there’s loads of it.”
“Where do you reckon it comes from?”
“Well it comes out of this pipe owned by the world’s most awful cunts.”
“How does it get in there?”
“Like I give a shit.”
“Great! No further questions.”

— Economics A Level, 2026

Comic: Common Sailing Rigs. [18 boats with different sail types, labeled.] Lateen; Bermuda rigged sloop; Ketch, Gaff rigged sloop; yawl; schooner; Ketch-rigged Gaff; Kloop-rigged sketch; bunkbed rig; Flettner rig; Oops, all Spinnakers; keel rig; kite rig; longsail rig; deckhand obliterator; offset rig; mastless rig; unclassifiable chaos rig.

Sailing Rigs

xkcd.com/3193/

This is nice but I feel they’ve missed a trick by not including a cord in her back that you can pull to make her say “Twisted flax please, Victoria”

I am.

As omens go, that's a good one. Go well, both of you.

Supportive vibes sent in both your directions.

I need to visit that deli!

I caught up with this a week or so ago. You came across really well, Justin. And the book is great - I gave a copy to a friend who's a fellow child of the 80s and she's really enjoying it. I dipped into it myself before wrapping it too!

You're not fooling anyone, you know.

View across Plymouth Sound from The Hoe. The low winter sun is shining through broken cloud against a blue sky, and is reflected on the calm sea.

Smeaton's Tower, a former lighthouse painted in the traditional red & white stripes, stands on the grass of Plymouth Hoe against a pale blue sky with broken cloud.

First walk of 2026 to one of my favourite places. Wishing anyone who reads this Happy New Year.

Lit by low sun, a wave is breaking as it approaches a beach. A nearby headland has a low Victorian fort built into it, and in the distance can be seen low hills on the other side of the wide bay. It's the view looking west from Bovisand.

All the best for 2026. Wishing you many more sunny sea views!

An extremely 1970s shop front with a plate glass window. A large yellow sign displays the name Veggie Perrin's in a dark green serif font. In much smaller text underneath is written "I didn't get where I am today by eating meat"

I thought it might have been an oblique reference to this restaurant in Plymouth.

The skeletal Death of Rats in a black cloak stands by a roaring log fire. A plate with a slice of pork pie and a glass of sherry is in front of him. A black hourglass timer is to the side.

Happy Hogswatch Eve to those who celebrate

Well it's definitely not meat. So therefore a vegetarian could eat it. So therefore, technically, it's a vegetable.

Bon appetit.

I don't know if it's still the case, but when I lived in PennyZ, Montol used to be described as 'Golowan's evil twin'. I went once. It rained.

A taper candle numbered 21 with a fabric advent calendar hanging behind it.

A small light for solstice, and the belief that it will grow stronger.