I favour Homer Simpson's Fat Guy Dress.

I go for more of a Hemulen style myself.

I'm currently watching Splash on telly - a film I first saw at the cinema and have always had a fondness for - but it's just dawned on me that it's almost forty (40!) years old. What a sobering thought.

I have just bled my radiators then re-pressurised my boiler.

Just off out to wrestle a lion!

Today's Google doodle has just made me snivel AND tell myself to pull myself together.

I watched it this morning in bed. It was lovely.

Thanks for the tip.

I also caught a bit of Splash, and Tom Hanks looked incredibly young, and like he'd not started shaving. He was actually in his late 20s.

Apparently consistently referring to The Shape of Water as Splash Two is a bit annoying.

snigger

The Shape of Water is massively up it's own arse.

I just got bored. Also my brain keeps mixing in bits of Finding Dory.

It's all Greek to me.

I will stop with the arcane arthouse shit forthwith.

And here's a strange thing:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59920221

Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov

how did I not know that?

There are weird underground gas(?) fires in the US too ISTR

Well, yes. And other places. That's why fracking can cause taps to go on fire.

I particularly liked this bit:

But Canadian explorer George Kourounis examined the crater's depths in 2013 and discovered that no-one actually knows how it started.

There’s a coal mine somewhere in the US, that’s been burning for several decades.

There's one in Australia that's been burning for thousands of years. Bonkers.

Meanwhile, I seem to be quite enjoying the bombastic trilling of Dame Burly Chassis at the BBC. I probably need a drink.