Watched: Thunderbolts*, 2025 - ★★½ 🎥

Some great Villa defending in the second half and nice goal by Matty Cash in the first. Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City. Good game 👏 ⚽️

Viewing Micro.blog conversation threads in Tapestry is really useful and convenient.

Thank you @iconfactory 👏

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sprints (22 plays), Gary Kemp (20), George Xiaoyuan Fu (14), Miles Davis (11), Cate Le Bon (10)

Strictly 💃 & Pizza 🍕

Mine was tuna, black olive, caper and jalapeño. With Chianti 🍷

Watched: A House of Dynamite, 2025 - ★★★★★ 🎥

Brilliant. A tense two hours flew by.

Watched: Drag Me to Hell, 2009 - ★★★★ 🎥

Warming up for Halloween with stylish, old-school horror 🎃

Watched: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, 2023 - ★★★½ 🎥

Watched: The Last Kingdom 📺

It’s taken me nearly two years to work my way through all five seasons of The Last Kingdom (set in the 9th and 10th century British Isles). Enjoyed them all but my interest did wane slightly after the death of Alfred the Great. I still wanted to finish the storyline though.

To quote The Guardian review from 2015:

This is not a smaller-scale, less sexy, British Game of Thrones – it’s proper historical drama, and it’s a ton of fun

The film The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is next 👀

Retailing 🛍️

That worked quite well for a first attempt. Slightly soggy bottom my only criticism 😁

Served with garlic roast potatoes, some soy glazed broccoli and samphire. Sunday dinner sorted!

I have constructed a salmon Wellington. To be baked shortly 🐟

Spurs 1-2 Aston Villa. Villa’s season recovery continues. And a fantastic second goal! ⚽️🙂

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Alim Beisembayev (14 plays), Tadaaki Otaka, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales (13), Serebrier, Russian National Orchestra, Yang, Romanovsky, Chisson, Serov, Barton-Pine (10), June Christy (7), Bernstein (4)

Watched: The Hurt Locker, 2008 - ★★★★★ 🎥