Honestly, it’s great: I love the fact that I can stream all the albums in the world for one flat monthly fee.

I just wish that so many of them didn’t end their titles with ‘(Expanded Edition)’.

Or at least that the ‘Original Edition’ was there too.

Happy Christmas everyone.

The soundtrack for today starts with Earthquake Weather. How can Joe Strummer have been dead for eighteen years already?

I know, that’s just the way time works. The music lives on.

Yesterday I tried removing my taped-on mask slowly, and it was actually much better. So I rescind my advice from the day before about removing it quickly.

Trump may never concede, but this video shows us he’s at least said all the right words, if not necessarily in the right order.

A Christmas cake (rich fruit cake) sitting on a cooling rack.
Christmas cake cooling on a rack

The Christmas cake is in the oven. ‘Tis the (start of the) season.

Lot of fireworks going off in Hackney at the moment. It’s probably just random November parties, but I like to think they’re celebrating the great news from the USA.

Congratulations, over there!

A blue sky with mottled, fluffy, white clouds. The type sometimes called a mackerel sky.
The sky over Hackney, this morning

These videos of Americans chanting ‘Stop the count!’ What… why… how…?

Trump’s reality distortion field is powerful indeed.

(For example: <twitter.com/SJPeace…>)