United losing 3-0 at home to Bournemouth with an hour gone.

Bring back baldie!

Anyone know why some of my blog posts have a “thumbnail” screenshot image of the post attached to them? Seems to be a micro.blog thing (a plug-in?). @help

Ten months on and bath night is getting easier.

Now all I have to do is say, “Who’s going to get in Eli’s bath first? Will it be Eli? Or will it be Dad?”

Quick as a flash he’s stripped and running to the bathroom to beat me.

Xmas pizza.

A pizza topped with onions, cherry tomatoes, cheese, spinach, jalapeños, and herbs is ready for baking.

…what’s important (as everyone who writes always says), is simply to write (and publish). Nothing’s ever finished or perfect, and it doesn’t need to be.

That’s from my first year on micro.blog post.

I missed my two year micro.blog anniversary because I was too busy breathing.

At the heart of neoliberalism is the fantasy of escape: escape from taxation and regulation, escape from the European Union and international law, escape from social obligation, escape from democracy. Escape, eventually, to a starlit wonderland beyond politics and beyond people.

Currently reading: The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) by George Monbiot 📚

Xmas Past.

I listen to Jamendo so you don’t have to

Nice tree, but it makes walking on the pavement almost impossible if you’re over five feet tall.

A tall, lush evergreen tree stands beside a street, surrounded by a wooden fence and urban environment.

Xmas in Little India.

A house is decorated with blue string lights hanging from the porch at night.A brightly lit star decoration is displayed in the window of an upper floor of a house at night, surrounded by other festive lights and decor.A corner building with bright neon lights and the name "The Scotsman" my local pub, photographed at night.A house is decorated with colorful LED lights illuminating the windows at night.

…streets were relatively clean, traffic lights and lamp-posts worked, and officers were present in the busiest areas. Simple things absent in other parts of Syria, and a source of pride here.

Traffic lights and lamp-posts usually work in Southall. Seems like Idlib is cleaner and safer?

All we need now is an authoritarian ethno-nationalist leader….