Notices by Mark H (neonbubble@mstdn.social)

Catching a bit of the Jets/Texans game before bed and watching the Jets is not entertaining. But watching the shots of Jets fans in the stadium... now that's entertaining.

#NFL

We're law-abiding people when it suits us and there's an old anniversary law that states you must drink something bubbly on your anniversary. So we are.

It's still early in the season and anything could happen but I am enjoying this Commanders team's improvement and results.

#NFL

Up to the in-laws for the evening, taking advantage of the free buses at the weekend, and always nice to see what crocheted postbox topper is on the walk down from the bus stop to their house.

#Crochet #Postbox #PostboxTopper

Just relocated a couple of future moths from the raspberries. I was quite taken with the horned beast which appears to be a rusty tussock moth, while the other one is a ruby tiger.

#Moth #Caterpillar #Nature #Photography #Gardening #Insects

We're #soap people. Put us in water and we foam up. No, wait, I mean that we use actual soap rather than that liquid stuff, and we always pick up soap when we #travel which, being something we do a lot, means we have a lot of soap. We have a filled cake bowl of soap and this is our overflow bowl from the shelf given over to soap in the bathroom cabinet. We're currently using an Icelandic soap made with volcanic ash. Feels wonderful, smells terrible. Anyway, that's it for today's soap news.

The theme for #TuneTuesday today is #BetterCover - a song for which the cover is better, allowing for personal taste and the fact we all like different things.

For me, the industrial flavour, distortion, noise, and extra energy from the 1000 Homo DJs version of Black Sabbath's Supernaut is what makes it better than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjho-zVgDXo

#Music #1000HomoDJs #Supernaut #BlackSabbath

Nose versus shoulder. Shoulder wins.

#Euro2024 #MastodonFC

Mastodon, this evening, is brought to you by the number 34.

Tonight's random movie from Amazon Prime is Kiss Me Monster.

"The bold and beautiful detective duo The Red Lips [moonlight] on a striptease world tour - but no sooner do they hit the stage than the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after a secret formula for human clones."

A description like that, 60s typeface credits, and a funky latin theme tune intro promise entertainment.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061432/

#Movies #BadMovies

It's entirely possible that there's a plot here that's been lost in the truly appalling dubbing but we somehow doubt it.

If you were on drugs while watching this film then it wouldn't make any more or less sense, but you would at least be on drugs.

We're in Le Havre today, resting our feet in a craft ale bar (surprise!) after walking around for several hours with no firm plans. We've seen some very nice sights and great architecture but none nicer than the Église Saint-Joseph designed by the mentor of Le Corbusier, Auguste Perret. It is absolutely incredible and really difficult to describe, sorry.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Architecture #Church #LeHavre #France #Brutalism #Brutalist #Cruise

Quick check-in from #Inverness which, as you can see, is utterly gorgeous. Sometimes you get a feel for a place and this city really appealed to me. We did the Ness Walk, looked around the museum, did some shopping, and yes, we had local beers in a fantastic pub.

Back to Invergordon now and our ship, and some all-important getting ready for #Eurovision which they will be showing on board.

#Scotland #Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #River #NaturePhotography

When you started drinking in the afternoon and are convinced it's now about three in the morning but it hasn't reached midnight yet and you're torn between horrified that's a lot of extra drinking still to come and excited that's a lot of extra drinking still to come.

A dip into the #travel archive from on this day eight years ago. On that particular February 29th we'd just arrived in #BuenosAires and been escorted to the ship we'd be spending the next few weeks on, and as we were on an overnight flight we were aboard early, before most other passengers had arrived in #Argentina, having the ship mostly to ourselves. We would spend the following day exploring Buenos Aires and it was an incredible city.

#Photography #TravelPhotography #TravelThursday #Cruise

We've received our cat from @babe and it's wonderful, shown here at the feet of our Romero Britto piece, Cheryl, on what might now have to become a cat collection shelf since we now own a whole two works of art there. We'll need to think of a name for the cat, too.

#MastoArt #Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

A #travel thing I've seen floating around for a few weeks now and which appears to have been started by @liztai

City I dislike: #Blackpool (a town really, but I'm counting it)

City I think is overrated: #Dubrovnik

City I like: #BuenosAires

City I love: #Reykjavík

City I most feel myself in: #Copenhagen

City I still need to visit: #Paris

I dream of living in: #PuertoMontt

This window for #FensterFreitag is in a fifteenth century farmhouse building at Manor Farm Country Park, Hampshire, presently decorated as it would have been when lived in during World War II.

#WindowFriday #Window #Photography

Wife: "Would the least stupid option be to open another bottle of wine now rather than move to sprits since there are still over four hours until the #Patriots play?"

I have to agree. We need to be only mostly comatose for that game, not completely out of it. #NFL