John Coombes

Hello

Eight wars settled and Chinese windfarms: factchecking Trump’s Davos claims The president’s address in Switzerland featured a range of dubious assertions, from exaggerated to false

I feel it is important to shout out these lies and exaggerations that the President of the United Sates continually repeats
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The hardest thing to manipulate and move around is undoubtably a double mattress. The second hardest is an A3 laminating sheet.

I worry about how other people live their lives when you consider most clothes washing powders are sold on their ability to deal with "really tough stains". What are we doing wrong?

I often wonder if the corner you cut off a Tetra Pak will always fit into the hole you make by cutting off said corner. Regardless of the size of the cut. #topology #tetrapak #geometry

Why? Why would any sane person do this? Ah! He's not sane, he's insane - they all are. How did we get here?

fair enough

or just use the wrapper from yesterday's sliced bread, like the rest of us.

take two Marina Hydes and a Will Self and you should be OK in a week or so.

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

The number of footpaths around here is amazing, I've been on a walk everyday for a year and I've hardly been on exactly the same route twice. Big thank you to #kirkleescouncil #barnsleycouncil for all the gates and stiles.

A dark night on Spook Hill

Let us not forget that the wonderful illustrator, W Heath-Robinson, was inventing complicated machines to do simple tasks, before Rube Goldberg got in on the act.

I love the Penguin Cafe Orchestra

I find it fascinating, and indeed terrifying, that the rich & powerful people poised to ruin the world are such uncharismatic, illiterate, unpleasant, ugly, vacuous people. But then I guess you can’t be a billionaire unless you are a hard-faced sociopath with no charm or respect for others.

It's all very well saying Labour aren't doing very well, but no political party could do well after the Tory government totally bankrupted the country with its corruption and economically disastrous decision to leave the EU.

Art is the daughter of memory

an artist's dilemma, neatly summed up by Robert Graves:

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

When I'm not filming or editing, I'm drawing

Today’s location

I've just moved across too, glad you are here now

It's a strange feeling, starting up on a new platform. As if I need to introduce myself, "hello, I am..."

looking for a breath of fresh air