Mild Peril

CINNAMON RICE. Cumin lamb and caramelised onions. Roast chicken, pomegranate arils, garlic yoghurt sauce, parsley and spiced pine nuts. Maltesers to follow, since it’s Friday.

can't remember if I've posted this one before but it came up on my dash again and

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The council have got a bit weird about it all www.instagram.com/reel/DVY8W8J...

Scrooge, but wearing a hockey mask cos it's friday the 13th.

"You boy, what day is this??"

Come to Ealing, our local wildlife group do tours!!

I am forever grateful that Terry Pratchett was with us as long as he was and it was not even close to enough

his work made me a better person, and I do not think I'm alone in that

GNU Terry Pratchett, we are so much poorer without you

Sometimes I feel like a fraud at neurodivergence because I’m only a wee bit autistic and in many ways tend to read as neurotypical if a bit odd, but I do have the autistic person’s great love of a metro system.

Of course internationally we’re currently thirteenth, behind 12 Chinese cities and Moscow. But we are also the oldest, the original and best.

MINOR ALARM as we watch The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as they declare the New York subway system the largest in the world. Panic ensues. BUT! It’s 1974, five years before the addition of 23 miles of Jubilee Line. NY pushed into second place, national pride restored.

A screenshot of a BBC article which says “We cannot know whether the GPs who responded to the BBC questionnaire are representative of all family doctors.”

1) Absolutely no mention of how this compares to fit notes for physical illnesses, which is surely a necessary baseline.

2) Lmao, may have just said “this was a waste of time!”

Slight hiccup at this though I when making small talk at the end and someone asked “So, are you a statistician?” and I had to burble “No, I have a Film Studies degree.”

2) Just had a meeting with our new head of service about the potential data science offer within the organisation and was taken seriously and seen as someone that can make a helpful and constructive contribution?!

1) Went to a network meeting about the Indices of Deprivation yesterday and I a) knew all the information already and b) was able to add to discussion with all the extra stuff I know

I AN ON A PROFESSIONAL HIGH. Maybe I am competent and good at my job?

no shade on anyone reading this but he's the best journalist currently working on anything anywhere

What with Blair on ‘getting involved in Middle East wars of choice’ and now this, I feel we’re just in need of George Osborne to chime in on ‘how public services feel underinvested in’ to get the full caboodle of unwanted advice.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/learn-2 #smbc

instead of "better or worse" you get asked how many lights there are

There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.

Generally there aren't a whole load of moments where you can say Red Dwarf was prophetic but the Talkie Toaster has become horrifyingly real.

The ideal social media CEO is a gray dopey type who just posts press releases and doesn’t use their own product. Very much like drug dealing, as it turns out.

A screenshot from the BBC Sounds app stating the 2006 film Crash was directed by David Cronenberg.

also some OBVIOUS ERRORS in this programme in 2006’s Best Picture winner Crash

A screenshot of the BBC Sounds app, showing Wimsey - Busman’s Honeymoon from January 1983.

I have re-embraced BBC Sounds but have discovered a bit of an Issue where your My Sounds tab is ordered by original broadcast date rather than most recent broadcast date, so if you want to listen to Lord Peter Wimsey you have to scroll all the way back to 1983 even though it was on this afternoon

Pondering since last night's rewatch of IKWIG about how much the works of Powell & Pressburger insist that life has magic in it, but it's magic that you have to actively welcome and tune into. The wonder is all around, but the real trick is to crack your heart open for it.

Union street fire: support Haus of Hair Last month, my wonderful hairdresser and friend Gemma left her job to fulfil her dream of starting her own salon with fellow stylist Aimee. 'Haus of Hair' opened last week. I visited on Friday and wa...

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating.

I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

This one! It’s a very heavily adapted Ottolenghi recipe that I’ve got down to two pans and half an hour of cooking: bsky.app/profile/peri...

A purple shop front bearing the sign PAUL SIMONS OPTICIANS

Reached the point in my commute where I have a mysterious desire to listen to Graceland again

Autistic people enjoy parallel play? Well, first of all it's called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead