It does! It's not actually a cathedral but it's called that fairly universally.

Norwegian seagulls, it turns out, are incredibly picky about their roosting spot having a sea view.

Today I survived an encounter with the FEROCIOUS wildlife of the arctic circle. (Okay, technically, it was that a pigeon flew into the cafe and made an attempt on my cookie. But I saw it off and was VERY BRAVE). I am available for interviews by all major news networks.

Alternate angle: its little FACE

I'd rate interest in the game where I am as…pretty high.

Pleased to report that the museum exhibit showing baby seals being clubbed has made sure the baby seals are really cute.

How's this for a victory for globalisation? I'm in the arctic circle and the wool is from...New Zealand.

Obviously you know before you come here that in July, the sun is up 24 hours a day. But knowing about midnight sun in theory and seeing it – okay, technically 23:30 sun – is quite different. It's uncanny.

Well. This feels dangerously tempting, doesn't it?

No, YOU went insane in the heatwave and relocated to the actual arctic circle for a week. It is SLIGHTLY CHILLY here, the weather merits a LIGHT JACKET, I don't think I have ever been happier in my entire life.

Cers would like it to be known that she has caught and defeated the shoelace menace.

🎵He sees you when you're sleeping / he knows when you're awake 🎵

🎵This was a triumph / I'm making a note here, huge success 🎵

Same energy

This cover for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social's print edition went to press last night. Feels like we were pretty timely this week...

Honestly, the most irritating thing about these AI scam emails to authors isn't even that they're trying to rob us. At this point, it's that *if you're going to send an AI email why not have it at least pretend to have read the book?*

Okay time to settle it. The south is inside the circle, the north is outside it. Simple.

This one comes in particularly handy

Yes, though on the other hand I do have an entire collection of reaction gifs *just* of Diana Rigg:

Suspect the cat might have been taking drama lessons in my absence.

If anyone is wondering, it's when I got to the third question in this list that I lost all hope for humanity and decided the only hope is to nuke everything from space. It's the only way to be sure.

Impressive new levels of incompetence from the Royal Mail here. They have failed to deliver my parcel *to the post office*. That's a whole new low.

It's still 28° in my flat. As ever, Jaime is dealing with the high temperature by…snuggling up to me for warmth. Fluffy little moron.

Guest cat!

No sorry, turns out free speech has Iimits, whoever made this quiz needs to be jailed.

Enjoying the peace of being trapped in the Welsh countryside slightly longer than intended by the weather and British trains. Except when it's punctuated by EXTREMELY LOUD AND LOW military overflys. Thankfully they haven't found me yet.

At some stage there is going to have to be a serious discussion in Number 10 about the relative populations of Manchester vs not-Manchester.