Simon Harris

After exhorting us all to stockpile supplies, the government has commissioned the BBC to produce a cartoon to get children ready for the coming apocalypse: Preppa Pig.

Wordle 1,941 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Oddly enough, Wordle delivered today.

Finally The Grim Reaper gets something right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dolly? Donny! The Grim Reaper should have gone to SpecSavers.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... '“She was like: ‘Not again; they’ve told you twice they don’t want you,’” Burnham told Elizabeth Day on the How to Fail podcast.' I hope she did it in the Brenda from Bristol voice!

First Hardle with my new phone. I was expecting it to reset my streak, but no, Apple’s phone transfer procedure copied all the cookies over too, so on we go! Hardle 🟦🟪 #1633 3/8 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 hardle.herokuapp.com

So far this week Keir Starmer has received Ukraine's Order of Freedom, the French Légion d'honneur and a carriage clock from his cabinet. Gonna need a bigger mantlepiece!

I promised myself a new phone to replace my dying 6 year old iPhone when I reached 600 on Hardle. Better not bugger it up tomorrow!

I like the service that @natrail-bot.bsky.social‬ provides, but I wish they'd provide accreditation for the photographs they use.

David Hockney, 88, Donald Sutherland, 88, Robert Redford, 89, Pope Francis 88... Whenever one dies I think, bugger, that's the same age as my dad. Keep going, dad, I'm not ready for you to join them. Be a David Attenborough instead.

Firstly, grossly understating the length of World War II - it should be 313 weeks Secondly, completely neglecting the war in Ukraine (currently at 220 weeks from the full invasion, much longer if you include annexing Crimea) Thirdly WW1 at 220 weeks is missing. Fourthly 6 weeks? Ahem: 10 perhaps?

Worth a reminder of the last time Trump attended the White House Correspondents’ dinner. youtu.be/HHckZCxdRkA?...

My wife just bought us a big TV. The picture quality is great and it’s all very nice, that is until you put the news on and there’s a life-size Trump in front of you.

In referring to acts of violence of governments against civilians, why do people revert to made up words like ‘unaliving’? Why not just call a spade a spade and use the actual word ‘killing’.

I have a hospital appointment tomorrow. If my doctor isn’t wearing Jesus robes I will be severely questioning their professionalism.

Tonight thinking of our friend Zsofi from Hungary who died suddenly and far too young almost 3 years ago. She should have been around to see today.

They just announced the toilets don’t work on the EMR train I’m on. Who do they think they are? NASA?

Is the whole world currently playing peekaboo with the Apollo astronauts, or are the Apollo astronauts playing peekaboo with the whole world?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... He's a dangerous lunatic. They all are!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... sanctions were put on Iranian oil to keep the pressure on Iran on nuclear development. If the US is now removing those sanctions because Iran’s actions in the Hormuz Strait are hurting too much, that’s not much of a demonstration of ‘winning‘ by the US!

Could there possibly be a worse estate agency? (picture from @theguardian.com).

Surely if the characters on banknotes are to be replaced by animals, the obvious replacement for Churchill is the British bulldog… …Oh yes!

Not exactly the age of Roosevelt, is it!

Still three days left to bugger things up.

TV choice for tonight: The State of the Union Address or Episode 1 of Designated Survivor?

The washing machine timer is down to 0:01 It’s been on 0:01 for 10 minutes now.

It has taken the Winter Olympics to make me realise the Ford Cortina was named after the place in Italy where it’s being hosted.

www.tomsguide.com/gaming/wordl... Is this going to bugger my strategy of using the same starting word until it comes up?

Wordle 1,689 5/6* 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, that came as a bit of a surprise!

Wordle 1,684 2/6* 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The letters just fell into place!

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... It’s an option.

www.ft.com/content/4b16... WTAF?

When Trump’s ballroom is finished, is that where they will film Dancing With The Tsars?

Errr … has Trump looked at a map recently? Remind me what that big country is that starts about 50 miles west of Alaska.

Are we in a ‘Wag the Dog‘ scenario, but with real bombs?

Not the most auspicious start to the year Wordle 1,657 6/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Is there actually any point in fact checking Trump? The people who care already know he’s just spouting bollocks. The people who he attracts don’t care whether it’s bollocks anyway.

@scouselakes.bsky.social You can't beat a good number 2! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Note to self: don’t cock it up tomorrow!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q-U...

Had two of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s Rivers of London books lined up to tide me over the hours of EES queuing At Thessaloniki airport, and they hadn’t even switched the system on, so whizzed through immigration as normal.

Phew, indeed! Wordle 1,576 6/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

While on a train today it occurred to me that if See it! Say it! Sorted! actually was sorted, it would become Say it! See it! Sorted!

This was happening 10 years ago when I was in Vienna. Why can’t we be more like Vienn?

With the tube strike, it would probably have been easier to work from home this week. But I have a 60+ Oyster card, and I'm bloody well going to use it, even if I do have to get an extra bus to my nearest Overground station!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... But is it good enough for Jehovah?

The BBC is doing a live blog on the Zelinskyy summit at The White House, and are currently doing all the European leaders arriving. Whenever they do one of this leader-by-leader arrivals blogs I'm always reminded of 'Late arrivals at the Ball' from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Genius!

Since the new neighbours moved in, I've noticed the number of ducks in the local park has diminished. I think they're quack dealers.

In What3Words, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity takes you to about 60km NNW of Auckland. You might have thought they'd have hard-coded that to the centre of Paris.