Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard
@redskyatnight
Curious ghoul. ‘This confused worker’ - the Daily Mail ‘On the short side, dressed in black’ - my dad CAUTION: May contain the Devil. #COYS
My brother has just sent me a picture of a British character actor, Richard Vernon, playing a supporting role in Goldfinger at the age of THIRTY-EIGHT
And Frank Muir in the same episode is *younger* than my boyfriend
There’s a 1977 episode of Call My Bluff on BBC4 and I’m mildly hysterical to discover that Robert Robinson is the same age as me here
If you see this, reply with a picture that illustrates what it’s like living in the UK
Due to the heatwave, and a need to have light clothes available for an upcoming trip to a country with mosquitos and dust, I have branched away from my traditional black and am sporting a striped trouser. Just had a little wobble upon remembering my dad’s dead and can’t say ‘Hello, it’s Andy-Pandy’
I’ll tell you who the real victims of climate change are: non-league football pitches
Incredible yet understandable bit of mis-shelving in Eason’s, Galway
This brought to mind a photo of my little school pal dancing with me at a birthday party in the early 80s when we were five or six. He was always an absolute sweetheart. He’s married to a lovely man now and they have two children 🥰
In Sid the Tortoise news, he has taken to climbing indoors via Mum’s back doorstep and wandering around her dining room. Here he is being colossally furious about the existence of a wall and some jigsaw puzzles in his path.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories but I’ve never engaged with this ghastly far-right political candidate and we have no Facebook friends, activity or interests in common. So I find it very odd that she’d appear as ‘People I may know’ as if I might want follow her.
My mum seems to have kept a school project I had to do at the age of six on Robinson Crusoe (I’m sure @outonbluesix.bsky.social will be pleased to learn it was based on a series of Watch)
The local beekeepers’ association has its own space in the park including a little info display on the technicalities of different types of hive, and I’m howling at how passive-aggressive this sign is
Endlessly fascinated by the way the owners of this house down my street have left it fully furnished while ripping the entire front off it to renovate. It looks like we’re living in the fucking Blitz
Assume the presence of this rowing boat in the pigs’ field at the park means that they must be the pigs from Piggly Plays Truant
Fond as I am of Yul Brynner, I don’t think he could really be considered history’s first ever renowned bald man. #AIslop
As I’m at my mum’s, some news of Sid the Tortoise: he’s greatly enjoying the hot weather and as a special treat in addition to his usual diet of foraged weeds, he’s had some lettuce and a piece of watermelon rind
I’m at my mum’s house. Did anyone else’s mum and dad have a set of these cocktail sticks in the 70s?
Such a great night. This is the third time I’ve seen them over the years and I’ve been blown away every time
No prizes for guessing what band I’m about to see
Reform are on C4 News and seem to have sent, in lieu of a spokesperson, a bottle of 19 Crimes wine
Also he recently folded himself into a deckchair
I know some of you like to keep abreast of the antics of Sid, my mum’s absurd tortoise, so here he is today. He walked around like that for ages apparently.
Jesus Christ, from the size of that cat I’m guessing it’s lard
Er, excuse me? Are you twisting my melon, man?
We have a fox who ransacks our feckless, recycling-resistant neighbours’ overflowing bin every night and then leaves litter all over our drive. I think he’s basically just trolling us now with this morning’s offering