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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

‘OK I understood the thing about bringing mice and birds into the house. But you never said anything about squirrels. I think you’re making up these rules as you go along.’

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

‘By the way, I brought a mouse into the house and let it go. It’s hiding under the fridge. Night night. zzzz’

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I love ‘proper’ nougat. However…

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Proud parents give press conference.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

He was never the same after he switched from acoustic to petrol.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I would to hear Freudian, Lacanian and Guatarrian analyses of this news story.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My brain was momentarily thrown here and it took me a moment to work out why. An excellent example of how the eye unconsciously bounces around the page finding connections of its own.

Text from FT, quoting someone called Beckelman immediately next to an ad featuring David Beckham.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just finished this. Stunning. One review (can’t remember where, sorry) described it as a novel of ‘epistemological collapse’. An excellent encapsulation. The last novel I read that achieved that effect with such an intensity was Dhalgren.

Cover of M John Harrison’s The End of Everything.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A real man would have them tatttooed to look like this.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Sorry. We definitely know it’s not Christmas. Computer screen at start of movie. See highlighted area, upper left hand of screen.

Computer screen from Alien (1979). Shows date as June 3.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We’ve had one of these since the 1990s (when they were briefly fashionable). Our model only goes up to 27C.

Galileo thermometer - glass tube filled with liquid and floating glass baubles. Baubles rise and fall according to temperature.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Rocket has been looking at the spring menu.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Found it in seconds. And I am in stitches. I am going to try to read the whole thing.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

One of my local kebab shops offers a sophisticatedly teasing option.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We keep telling the cat that if he doesn’t stop being so grumpy, we are going to get some kittens. But he would kill them. And we would probably forgive him.

Black cat. Curled up on sofa, but looking cross and contemptuous.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Ah. A good old-fashioned afternoon of family viewing.

Warning on streaming video: flashing lights, nudity, violence, alcohol use, smoking, foul language, sexual content.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

You sent me off down a rabbit hole with this one. Google immediately offers some interesting lines of inquiry.

Question to Google: Can you eat Capybara? Google suggest a range of more detailed questions including: can you eat Capybara during lent? And Can you eat capybara in Islam?

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION, THIS IS META.

The same picture as the post beibg reposted.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My phone has looked through my photos and decided this is one of my ‘Pet Friends’.

A dead mayfly floating in a swimming pool.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I am apparently 73. Because of this:

List of my top listened to albums according to Spotify. Captain Lockheed, Flat Baroque and Berserk, Hunky Dory, Bullinamingvase and Diary of a Madman.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Last year I succeeded easily in the challenge of getting a Christmas cake to absorb an entire bottle of Armagnac. This year the task is a little harder as I have left myself barely four weeks for cake-feeding. I am off to a good start however, as the dried fruit are already soaking in a hefty slug.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

‘So Civilisations… it’s like Gladiator meets History of the World in 100 Objects plus Newsnight… with a little bit of The One Show thrown in just in case.’

Pic of David the development executive from BBC comedy W1A.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once. (Two for the price of one.)

Scene from BBC series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Scene from The Thick of It when Malcolm Tucker asks: “What is this? Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Cunt?”

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I hear it like this: “He’s betting against thermodynamics, man.”

Denis Hopper character in Apocalypse Now.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

1/2 Revolutionary counterculture T-shirts. 1960s:

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Moving a garden object this morning. Look on my works ye mighty…

Copy of Rapa Nui statue. It has broken in half and the head lies on its side in the dirt.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

When you make one of those large Yorkshire puddings, the natural question is: what do you put inside it? The obvious answer is, some more smaller Yorkshire puddings.

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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

‘Woke’ is so out of control that, these days, Jane Austen would be cancelled by *checks notes* some things that do not exist.

Times headline:Jane Austen would be cancelled over her letters… Note, and as story says, almost no letters by Jane Austen have survived.

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