My tomatoes on the little stool i made for them, because i didn’t want a hanging basket. I’ve been well chuffed with watching them grow. It’s been very tolerant considering just how hot it gets by the window. Well worth the cash #NoviceGardner

No it’s not, but creating conversations on news programs has fallen into infotainment. “Let’s have a heated debate”. Let’s not! Somethings are just aren’t worth repeating.

When I first saw ‘Oh Brother Where Art Thou’ never did it occur to me that I too would become devoted to Dapper Dan pomade. And I am devoted, no other brand will do. It’s both ridiculous and intriguing to me that this has happened.

‘Rooster’ on Prime is my favourite comedy now. I was bereft after ‘Superstore’ finished, but ‘Rooster’ hits that sweet spot. Steve Carell is the star and he is amazing, but his supporting cast is also excellent.

In the UK we’re taking up productive farmland to put solar panels down. In France they’re putting them on large car parks.

A solar farm near where my Mum lives has taken up land that would otherwise be used for crops, meadows, wild flowers, grazing, etc and they just use it for solar panels. Meanwhile in China:

Agree. In France if a supermarket carpark is over a certain size, by law they have to put up solar panels. In China the solar farms graze sheep under the panels. In the UK we just have them in fields that once grew crops. Why in are being weird about solar panels.

Agree. It pisses all over Article 7 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These rights were written in the wake of unspeakable atrocities that we as human beings from across the globe agreed should never ever happen again and therefore we should set some baseline rules.

This Nick Clegg? Who got himself into a coalition with the Tories and then dropped this pledge like a hot potato, that Nick Clegg?

Watching ‘9-5’ again on Disney+. This movie has my favourite scene in a movie where people are stoned. The laughter feels genuine.

To be fair the BBC graphic is misleading. So I made a pie chart to help us understand the situation a bit better. Same stats, just presented differently. I feel the BBC has barely highlighted what we don’t know.

The BBC graphic is misleading, so I made a graphic to calm us down a bit. I’m no expert, but it is possible this is the most dramatic looking time and then we actually see what’s changed, what hasn’t.

I think the BBC’s graphic is misleading. So I took a screenshot at 12.11pm today and made a pie chart using the same information. It still feels very much up in the air. But I’m not surprised people are talking as if it is a done deal. It would seem that way from the BBC graphic.

Finished watching this last night and thought Caroline (the woman it’s about) was incredibly brave and if she were a man she’d be celebrated for her bravery. Personally I think she’s a hero and deserves all the flowers.

Every so often on the tv I see Brush Strokes buried in with the lesser watched channels and I’ll watch it, because Jacko is so loveable it’s easy to see why he was such a philanderer. Him and Vince in ‘Just Good Friends’ were two of my favourites

A big full moon is so satisfying

Saw that people are campaigning for London’s Liverpool Street Station. In Manchester I remember delighting when they said Victoria station was getting a cover. Now every time I see it I’m disappointed in just how expensive it was and how crap it looks. Like being in a Tupperware box

Well if that’s the case then where’s all the money? Where’s the investment in education and the NHS? Where’s the cash for councils to support families and youth clubs? Where’s the money for saving heritage buildings and getting funding to the arts? Where’s our money gone?

Went to the Kardomah cafe in Swansea and it did not disappoint. It is a palace of wood panels and retro style comfort that is difficult to replicate. The sense of warmth and comfort for this place is difficult to describe and it is totally photogenic

Even the website has a gorgeous image on it that would make a beautiful gift card. Can I buy this as a gift card? No! Why the heck not? I just don’t get it. These are all images from the ‘Essential Collection’ released last summer.

They have this card thanking you for visiting the store, but do they sell it as a gift card? Nope.

I asked for a piece of the tissue paper they wrap stuff up in. Look at it! It’s adorable. Can I buy this illustration as an illustration? No. Is it in a book? No. It’s proper heartbreaking.

Who did these beautiful illustrations they’ll only let me see on coasters, mugs, tote bags and t-shirts? I want them, but as actual pictures, to look at. They’re gorgeous.

Caused trouble in the Paddington shop by asking which book had these illustrations. Someone tried to tell me they were Peggy Fortnum illustrations. I said I could see they were based on Fortnum’s work, but clearly weren’t hers. Nobody could help. I just wanted pictures of the collection.

For me it’s not Sherlock, it’s the song that constantly plays in my head until we got here

It’s lucky I got this picture before hand I was a teary mess afterwards. Paddington was so adorable I couldn’t cope. The woman I met in the queue for the loos during the interval said she’d already cried twice.

Dramatic headline from the Manchester Evening News. I guess my idea of “large numbers” is in the hundred thousands, at a stretch tens of thousands. If I were being generous I’d even say in the thousands but no, it’s not even that “large”.

Aardman missed a trick here. I would have bought multiple of these if they were stickers or A4 posters.

Beautiful Aardman exhibition at the Young V&A. I’m very fond of ‘The Wrong Trousers’ so it did not disappoint

Heading down to the Big Smoke for a bumper weekend of culture innit?