I don’t work Wednesdays, so I spent an obscene amount of time playing the wizard game today. I’m happy to say the world is stuffed full of cats and you are allowed to pet them… Read More

I have an Early Bird Special story. When I was working corporate in the States, there was a shopping center next door that had various eateries and office supply stores. That kind of thing… Read More

If you click the article, you do get the full mugshot, but I love the way sussex.news crops the pictures on the front page so it looks like we’re arresting toddlers for serious crimes… Read More

Okay, I can put up with thirty years of it, but after that? I am done! Actually, I think most of those advice letters are fake. At least, the ones in porn magazines are – I know someb… Read More

More ordnance dug up on Sussex beaches this month. There’s still an insane amount of it out there. I don’t know that I’d handle those big ones – they look unstable… Read More

Our landline rang this afternoon – a rare thing these days – and just as Uncle B answered it, our phone line died. Phone, internet, all of it. A spooky crackly sound came out of… Read More

Hello, frens. I played my game instead of coming up with something interesting to post tonight, in a pattern that has repeated in my life for upwards of six decades. I’ve come to the… Read More

Have you switched (I won’t say upgraded) to Windows 11 yet? I’ve got two machines running it at work and I can’t see much difference. The Notepad has multiple tabs now an… Read More

The Hogwarts game has an insurmountable problem: it’s set in a mythic English public school. To work, it has to be stereotypically English, and aggressively so. But white people are b… Read More

Giant redwood trees were imported into the UK in the 1850s. They became a status symbol and were often planted at the gates of great parks, cemeteries and estates. As a result, there are ha… Read More

I have reached a state of spiritual purity: I no longer desire material things. This is a problem because my birthday is next month and Uncle B is pestering me for ideas. There’s noth… Read More

Just watched a Portal fan film called GLaDOS – which, frankly, wasn’t very good. It had lots of fun call-backs to Portal (and Half-Life), but it needs a tight edit and it’… Read More

From this side of the pond, it looked like everyone in America was running in circles quacking. Why the overreaction – anyone know? Or was the news deceiving us again? Photo from NASA… Read More

But only when the pointer color is changed to purple, I guess. Another learning curve. Swell. We got a new TV today. Our old Sony was rock solid, but it was 15 years old – right at th… Read More

It blows me away what you can buy here. These four 18th C glass goblets have come up to auction for guide price, left to right, £300 – £500, £100 – £200… Read More

In contrast to several recent expensive AAA flops – corrupted by the dour influence of blue-haired “story consultants” – an unabashed shoot-em-up leaning into the St… Read More

I woke up at 5 this morning – which, since our clocks went forward this weekend, was 4 o’clock Brain Time – and could not get back to sleep. You want to know what I was fr… Read More

I had a wonderful Easter. I spent the sunny hours – of which there were many – sitting in the garden watching the new lambs gambol. I spent the less sunny hours – of which… Read More

We had to help our neighbor fix her wifi, a trip that included a drive across a sheep field. This one little lamb was in the near end by himself. His mother was some yards away not paying a… Read More

This little scene was at the end of the drive as I went to work this morning. These two are very, very fresh. Not pictured, just off camera to the right, a very weary, panting ewe had a li… Read More

The latest howling controversy in gaming has been over a consultancy firm hired onto gaming projects to make them more woke. It turns out their fingerprints are all over several recent big… Read More

If you guessed this was an hour-long video of an Amana washing machine doing a complete cycle taken from a channel about washing machines, you’d be completely correct. The comments. L… Read More

This is a lime Uncle B grew in his own greenhouse. It is – and you’ll have to take my word for it – bright yellow. That’s perfectly normal. It takes a hit of cooler… Read More

Still struggling with VR technology. Specifically, EUVR – a mod that supposedly lets you play existing games made with the Unreal engine in VR. Which is lots of games, including lots… Read More

Last night’s post has vanished without a trace. It was just a boring thing about trying to get the Hogwarts game to run in VR, but that’s not the point. It’s not in the da… Read More

Looks like my Twitter is borked. No idea why. If I were suspended, I would expect it to tell me so. My work account seems okay. Is yours working? I’ve had a technology day, whether I… Read More

(They don’t want Harry back). Could he do this? He could. Harry admitted to illegal drug use in his autobiography, which is disqualifying. I used to hang out in a forum for Americans… Read More

I’m not much of a royal watcher, but shit is just weird. This was supposed to happen last night, then any minute now all day long. The Russkies put it out there that King Chuck was d… Read More

I’ve spent my whole evening trying to get my Chromecast to talk to my phone. It all started when I wanted to show a clip off Xwitter to Uncle B and ended an hour and a half later in t… Read More

I was looking for a date for local elections and found some really confusing results – until I worked out there’s a town in Wisconsin called Sussex. It was founded in 1843 by a… Read More

I threw away a trash can. I’m sure there was a comedian who had a bit about that. Sounds like Stephen Wright. How do you do it? The council gave us a huge recycling bin. I take every… Read More

Ladies and gentlemen, positively the last phone book. I’ve bought thicker magazines. I’m not sure I believe this, you know. My memory is the last few phone books were called the… Read More

My Bitcoin balance. A reminder that I bought of £50 it in the Spring of 2019. I intended to buy regular small amounts, but my only UK ID expired so I wasn’t allowed. From then o… Read More

BullDawgGirl takes it with Iris Apfel. My first instinct was to say no to this pick – I never heard of her, anyway. I would have done if I thought BDG was using the patented Steve tech… Read More

I rise from my sickbed to make this announcement Read More

We’re trying to figure out who it was delivered to. It certainly wasn’t me. I was F5’ing the FedEx page all morning and leapt to my feet when it was listed as delivered… Read More

It’s a day early, which ought to be a good thing but isn’t. I bought it with prescription lenses and they won’t be here until tomorrow. FedEx swears they’ll be deliv… Read More

This whackadoo is going to try to stop at all 2,580 railway stations in Britain in six weeks. For charity. His day job, he does in fact work for the railroad. I’m not sure if that mak… Read More

I made up my mind and I’ve been trying all day to buy a new VR headset. The first try was rejected by the bank, as unusual purchases are. Once I got that straightened out, I got into… Read More

I’ve been invited to join a two-day rake making workshop in Wales. The number of times I get an email like that and think, “that’s a weird spam” and then realize, &l&helli…Read More

This is the excellent Modern Diner in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. “The Sterling Streamliner car, made in the late-1930s and early 1940s, was the first diner in the nation to be accepted… Read More

A widow from Hastings panicked when she found Paul McCartney’s bass in her attic last week. It had been stolen in 1972, after the breakup, and was the subject of an intense search in… Read More

I read tonight that the National Trust has acquired another Detmold illustration to put on display at Kipling’s house. The Detmold brothers did a beautiful series of strangely dark il… Read More

There’s been much hilarity this week about Google’s Gemini and its allergy to images of white people. They’ve had to pause marketing of the image generator. Someone asked… Read More

Why you’d call a black cat Blueberry, I do not know. But meet Blueberry. He disappeared in November of 2019 and turned up this week 200 miles away in the other end of Ireland. They th… Read More

I bought an oil painting of my house I found on Ebay. Imagine that. Just for fun, I decided to search the name of our house. Never done that before. What are the odds? I have a standing sea… Read More

Hear me out: Drain Cleaning Australia. Bruce from down under chatters and unblocks drains. That’s it. It’s weirdly therapeutic. It’s not just me. He started the channel tw… Read More

Phew! I made it! Only just. Lavendergirl takes it with Jonnie Irwin. I’d never heard of him, to be honest, but I’m not into property programs. Now to reheat my fish and chips in… Read More

I’m stuck in line for fish and chips. Will post the Dead Pool as soon as I get home and rescue my cockerel from the roof!! Read More

We took the backroads to go buy our coffer yesterday and spotted this on the way. England, am I right? The purpose of the box is to hold some of the junk threatening to overwhelm the living… Read More

Old hands might remember that today is our wedding anniversary. Our fifteenth, in fact. Fifteen is crystal, but neither of us likes crystal and, anyway, we break stuff. So we bought ourselv… Read More

Yet another rebrand. The Queen slapped sussexroyal.com out of their hands and now they’ve abandoned archewell.com and redirected it to sussex.com No way sussex.com was free, I thought… Read More

Our fancy, computer-controlled, hippie-approved septic system broke down over the weekend and took our electricity with it. Uncle B spent all Sunday morning isolating the source of the powe… Read More

I nixed the thing I was going to post at the last minute, so I’m postless. I shall use this opportunity to apologize to the Dead Pool folks. I didn’t think about Toby Keith being… Read More

Larry David was waiting to do a spot on the Today Show while the Elmo puppet was there to discuss mental health. David suddenly couldn’t bear the Elmo voice a moment longer, zoomed ov… Read More

This is the can we pour fat into before throwing it out. As far as I recall it’s a layer of lard followed by a layer of runoff from a roast chicken and capped with another layer of la… Read More

I’ve been in a Zoom meeting all evening, so here’s a picture of somebody else’s duck that I stole from Uncle B’s Google Photo. She gets a fresh wading pool every day… Read More

Someone had to cancel an appointment with me today because a person was hit and killed by a train and all traffic was halted. You couldn’t even drive over the crossing at the nearest… Read More

Uncle B’s treat. I think this is the model: Swamp Master Galaxy. Only, I don’t think they have steel toes. I could get up and look, but that would involve getting out of this ch… Read More

Have you done one of these yet? We’ve been trying for weeks to make me a signatory on the local art club’s account. They wanted ID (perfectly reasonable), but my only ID is my p… Read More

Found in an archive of papers from an early troop of Girl Guides: semaphore flash cards. I mentioned this at a coffee morning and one of the old girls got up and gave me the whole alphabet… Read More

A week after the queen died, some chump got on Ebay and tried to auction off her stick. Well, not actually her stick, dude was a fraud. Winning bid, in the end, was £540 – thoug… Read More

I finally broke down and subscribed to the Epic Times. Of all the sources that turn up in my news feed or Twitter stream, that’s the one I follow links to the most. It’s spicy… Read More

As I was leaving the office today, there was a nondescript gray car about to pull out of a parking spot in front of me. I think it’s the one in the picture, but not so shiny. I can&rs&helli…Read More

Furbies are beloved of hackers and soft toy makers and have appeared with all sorts of modifications and customizations. Of all the variations the one with most staying power forsomedamnrea… Read More

It’s not gibberish, actually. It’s not much of a language, but there was an attempt at meaningful grammar. The original Furby had a vocabulary of 42 words, expanded in later ver… Read More

Of course I took Toh-loo Kah apart. Because of course I did. I watched a ton of Furby skinning and disassembly videos. It’s surprising how many manufacturing differences there are bet… Read More

I secretly wanted a Furby when they came out in 1998, but I was a grown-ass 38-year-old woman and forebore. Also, they went from the original $30 to hundreds on the gray market because supp… Read More

The Honeymooners cast reunion is on at last: Joyce Randolph has passed and p2 has dick. Now that I see her picture, I realize I had her crossed with Vivian Vance from I Love Lucy (who died a… Read More

I’m in Twitter jail. Boo. You know what I said? “Hillary won’t give up until we bury her at the crossroads with a stake through her heart.” Twelve hours. I keep forg… Read More

Thrill to the electrifying ‘putting your arm up a cow’s bum’ experience. This opportunity, if you hadn’t guessed, is part of the James Herriot Country Tour. Herriot… Read More

This is the Midsummer Tree in Worthing. Folklore has maintained for centuries – or at least since the early 19th C – that on Midsummer’s Eve, skeletons rise up and dance a… Read More

The very first video ever uploaded to YouTube was the 19 second short Me at the Zoo by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. The comments section says that was 18 years ago yesterday, but the Wik… Read More

Going through some old books in the work library today and I ran across a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. I guarantee you know this guy, whether you know you know him or not. He was the origi… Read More

I had frequent earaches as a child. Miserable things. My father had them, too. He loved to explain what they did for earaches in his day, pre-antibiotics: they’d take a scalpel and pu… Read More

For the second time this year, I woke up a couple of days ago with one ear completely blocked. The first time around, over-the-counter ear drops sorted it out in a couple of days. This time… Read More

Enjoy this view of my delicious catloaf. He’s a very eccentric beast, like most formal ferals. He’s fat and it’s totally not my fault. He will only eat dry Iams, and not a… Read More

Nana1 takes dick #4 with Glynis Johns. The old girl was a hundred, made her stage debut at three weeks old and I only ever saw her in one movie. Are we all juiced up and ready for January?… Read More

Pictured on the way home: the two white blobs are mommy and daddy swans and the four gray blobs (brown IRL) are the baby swans. Kind of teenager swans, actually. Okay, they were far away an… Read More

Awoo! Awoo! Pity a poor weasel what am going back to work tomorrow! On the other hand – never mind. I feel sorry enough for both of us. Still, it’s a good sign that I had a n… Read More

The very first Mickey – the Steamboat Willie one – passed into the public domain yesterday. This follows a series of emergency copyright continuances beginning in 1955(!). Peopl… Read More

We didn’t make it to midnight. We didn’t try, even. We opened a bottle of excellent English sparkling wine at 8:30 and called it a New Year’s Eve. Spent today mooching aro… Read More

We continue our low-effort stroll down memory lane with the first picture of Kitteh. He strolled into the house one night in July of 2018, screamed and ran out again. I trapped him next day… Read More

Google continues to say I’m over my storage quota, even though I’ve deleted dozens of photos. And yes, I emptied the trash. Let that be a warning: don’t go over! Have one… Read More

I gather Uncle B’s fruitcake was a resounding success. I’ll have to take his word for it. Happy Boxing Day everyone. Go outside, look up – there’s the most amazing m… Read More

He found it! The absolute madman – found it! We do Christmas as an evening meal, so if you’ll excuse me, I have rolls to proof. I hope everyone’s day was everything you wa… Read More

More than 24 hours later and Google is still saying I’m over my limit, even though I’ve deleted hundreds of megs of images. Still going back through my old stuff trying to pluc… Read More

Backing up my Gmail account. Your storage allotment is across the whole platform, so when you fill it, it paralyzes your Drive, Gmail, Photos…everything. And they don’t tell yo… Read More

Zo! During its iPhone Whatever launch last week, Apple broadcast a cringey five minute video of a meeting between the Board of Directors (I guess) and Mother Nature (a sassy black woman, of… Read More

Best night of the Geminids meteor shower, the best meteor shower of the year. Except they happen in December when the weather is often pretty gross. They happen from the 10th to the 20th, b… Read More

Spotted in town today – another Tennessee girl a long way from home. The decal on the side said Memphis Sheriff, which I don’t think is a thing. The Sheriff is a county force, s… Read More

In the previous thread, Surly Ermine asked me if I had any new favorite Christmas carols since moving to Merry Olde. There is a whole ‘nother stable of standard Christmas music here a… Read More

Glue gun glue is hot, y’all. In fairness to me, I did know that, even though this was my first time using one. What I didn’t know was that it was going to drip through the middl… Read More

It was a dark and stormy night, almost. The wind was blowing a gale, the rain stung like needles, nearly dark, and Uncle B said cheerily, “so, we going to do the tree then?” ! T… Read More

TheFritz takes it with Henry Kissinger, a crowd favorite. I am very weirded out by this as I distinctly remember posting a Dead Pool that Kissinger was the subject of. I made a joke about wh… Read More

I thought for sure I’d called a new Dead Pool when Kissinger died. He was a fan favorite. Apparently, I did not. So when I called it for Norman Lear, I thought it was a whole ‘n… Read More

I’ve done it. I’ve taken an oath to the King. I’m sure at least a few of my ancestors are rolling their eyeballs in hell. Here’s what I had to say: I, Stoaty Weasel… Read More

We went to a popup cat cafe, y’all! It was a trip. You have to pre-book and pay in one-hour increments. When we turned up, it was full of screaming little girls, which was less than o… Read More

The power of opportunistically clicking links: yesterday, I hit the link for the Daily Wire’s new comedy movie Lady Ballers and it inexplicably let me watch the whole movie without be… Read More

‘Tis the season of old Dead Pool favorites falling off the perch. Kissinger. Huh. At last. Congratulations to thefritz. I wonder if anybody ever called him Hank. I’m guessing not… Read More