Taking the Mickey
Until this morning, I thought Steamboat Willie was some unmentionable medical condition, but I stand corrected…
BBC: Disney’s earliest Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter public domain as US copyright expires
2023 in a nutshell
So that was 2023… The year in which global temperatures headed off the charts. The year in which, once again, peace was not yet restored to the Middle East. The year in which an old man finally inherited an overpriced hat from his mum. The year in which some bell-end took a chainsaw to an iconic British landmark.
On the plus side, we got some new bookshelves, and I took some more photos. So here’s my thirteenth annual video slide-show review of the year:
Consistent as ever, as in the previous ten years, this year’s slide-show contains 97 photos.
Once again, I composed the ambient pap backing track. It is called Funk & Disorderly:
See also: All of my yearly nutshell videos
Levelling up London’s potholes
In case you were wondering where the government intends to invest all that ‘saved’ HS2 funding…
Department for Transport: Government invests £235 million to upgrade and repair roads across London
Allocations for London boroughs to improve capital’s roads announced • long-term investment to make roads safer and smoother using redirected funding from HS2 • according to the RAC, motorists could save up to £440 in repairs caused by poor road conditions.
Prawn chow mein…
…Ridicule is nothing to be scared of!
Optical allusions
Admiring a stunning rainbow with my better half…
Me: Apparently, the laws of optics have changed… Rainbows didn’t exist until after Noah’s flood. God created them as a promise to the world that He would never flood it again.
Jen: All I can say is He seems to have taken His eye off the ball this morning.
Not to be confused with Alfred the Cake
It’s not often I feel any kind of sympathy for the Charles formerly known as Prince, but…
Poor bastard! (But I suppose he could always abdicake and eat it.)
Cousin Chris
My music-streaming service (Tidal) just recommended some hip-hop to me. The only reason I can conceive it might do this is if the algorithm decided some chap named ‘Chris Carter’ might be my cousin.
(Links are not endorsements.)
OK, now all this climate nonsense is starting to sound serious!
BBC: Climate change could make beer taste worse
Global warming is changing the quality and taste of beer, scientists have warned. A new study reveals that the quantity of European hops, which gives beer its distinctive bitter taste, is declining.