DaemonForneus

Starmer’s Redform party looks set to sink.

Yikes. I may be experiencing a genuine shutdown.

Brain started to freeze around 4.30. Managed a quick stroll around the greenway. Making the bed felt like climbing Everest.

Now laid on the sofa, which also feels like overachievement.

That turned out to be far saner than anticipated. The agents of chaos are off working themselves silly on their latest hare-brained scheme.

Finally, the week lightens.

Note to self: do not refer to colleagues as ‘amateur hour attack dogs’.

I’m chairing an internal team meeting later.

The temptation to make it my last meeting here is overwhelming, but I must be sensible and wait a little longer.

A brilliant letter from a Party leader who genuinely cares about the plight of humans struggling to make their lives even remotely palatable, to a Home Secretary who once shared the same sentiments.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social… I salute you!
Shabana Mahmood… what happened to you? 😱

Thanks. It’ll balance out eventually.

I just had to call 111 because of work.

The urge to send a two word resignation letter is defused. For now.

I feel like a walking hydrogen bomb.

A red and black widebeam barge called Haddlesley is moored on the Rochdale canal. Opposite, dwarf daffodils welcome the first sustained sunshine of the year! A sweeping curve of grass leads the eye along the receding canal path.

Lay down all work,
Surrender to the Sun.
It is shining,
It is shining.

Work is getting unsustainably stupid. Stressed, I picked up the wrong vape.

Best mistake ever.

Instant calmer.

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Orange Crush (Official Music Video)

R.E.M.'s Orange Crush has a new, even more prescient, lease of life.

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YouTube video by Connor Paton So incredible to see😱

A way of showing how the Earth rotates by fixing the lens on the galactic centre, rather than the horizon.

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Skipping my usual HIIT workout due to burnout. A stroll should suffice.

I’m also holding fire on resigning.

Updating my CV, folio and job hunting on top of burnout (and a second diploma) seems a recipe for disaster.

It also stops money worries becoming a driver to yet more compromise.

Just about swerved a full meltdown.

Handing my notice in on Monday. Worrying about this stupid job is taking up too much of my personal time.

Nope.

Congratulations to Hannah Spencer, @greenparty.org.uk and to the residents of Gorton & Denton.

The delicious cherry on top is hearing that the Tories received so few votes they lost their deposit.

JFC. The people I work with are licensed to make fentanyl, dexamphetamine, oncology drugs, peptides and more.

I’ve been in better organised mosh pits.

I’m outta here.

Brace position adopted, ready for impact with Monday.

While out walking under leaden skies a few days back, I noticed the scent of change in the air. A sweetness on the breeze. Potential.

No Other Choice is a superbly dark satire, but trying to sit still in Hebden’s cinema seats for 2.5 hours was a major endurance test, especially after the morning’s workout.

They’re like church pews! My hips and lower back aren’t very happy 😰

Thanks! And to Mother Nature for her dazzling display!

Thank you! It’s an amazing landscape here in the ‘Yorkshire Alps’!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I may have finally escaped ‘frantic mode’ for the first time since waking at 6.40am.

You may enjoy this that was mentioned on R3’s Record Review yesterday. It’s not the only release to blend Nick Drake with John Dowland, either.

I booked a ticket to go see No Other Choice tonight, but it starts at 7pm.

The amount of work I've had to do ahead of this means I'm likely to fall asleep during the film.

Life is manic. I wish it wasn't. Where's my pause button gone?

Heptonstall church tower peeps over the trees of Eaves Wood, West Yorkshire. The trees are ablaze with colour and sunlight. Pale blue skies above with wispy cirrus clouds.

A rocky outcrop looks over Eaves Woods ablaze in autumnal colours, and across the valley to Rawtonstall Wood, West Yorkshire.

Ancient English temperate rainforest, with ferns and trees aglow in evening sun. Dominating is a complex lens flare of overlapping coloured circles and domes in blue and red.

Sulfur cap mushrooms cling to the trunk of a tree in woodland below Stoodley Pike, West Yorkshire. I rotated the pic so the mushrooms look like hundreds of boobs headed towards you.

#SundayPixTrees Last lot. The spectacular sights of autumn 2025.

A glitch in the iPhone's camera gives this lone tree in full spring bloom a white aura/glow as the light reflecting off background clouds overwhelms the sensors.

A tiny point of sunlight cuts through the canopy and creates a multi-point starburst effect on a steep, cobbled winding walkway that leads from Hebden Bridge to Heptonstall Road. Fresh green canopy stretches towards the camera from an ancient tree to the right.

Wobbly, worn stone steps (possibly 17th or even late 16th century) lead up and curve around a tree trunk near Hardcastle Crags/Slack area of West Yorkshire. In the distance, blue sky peeps out from behind white clouds.

#SundayPixTrees The tree with an aura, Gandalf's Path and rickety stone steps curving around a tree that looks like it may topple.

A carpet of red and orange autumnal leaves lines the gulley that cuts through Nutclough Woods, West Yorkshire.

The setting sun bursts through the tree canopy creating a starburst effect, with the rays reaching in front of a foreground tree that's almost silhouetted.

A stunning array of late autumn colours in West Yorkshire woodland. Red leaves cover the ground, and the canopy fades from green through yellow, orange and red.

Black tree trunks and branches reach skywards towards a canopy ablaze in yellow, green and red set against a vivid blue sky.

#SundayPixTrees I may have taken one or two (thousand) pics of trees over the years...

It may be the reason why they keep encouraging people to hire handybods to assemble the furniture!

Just tried, and failed, to fit an Ikea roller blind as I didn't realise they don't include the screws with the fittings.

I only spotted the teeny tiny 'excludes' notification on the packaging after I'd opened everything.

*sigh*