24jan25

This confused little physalis is for no good reason trying to set fruit in the middle of January in the teeth of hard winter storms. Poor little sod. The garden was shredded by the winds last night, the “feels like” index is one degree and the air quality is lousy. My trick knee has blown out for the first time in years.

Per yesterday’s note:

The BBC has issued the starkest warning yet about the UK scripted funding crisis, telling lawmakers that multiple greenlit series are “stuck in limbo.”

In a written submission to British Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee, the national broadcaster said: “We are starting to face significant and urgent challenges in getting productions across genres made, even those that have been greenlit by our commissioners to move forward into production.”

The BBC’s evidence, submitted to an inquiry on British film and high-end television, added: “Multiple greenlit BBC productions are now stuck in funding limbo and are not progressing to production.”

I have 340 GB of digital music stuffed into iTunes for Windows. I have iTunes for Windows because I have had iPhones since 2009-ish (the 3GS, the first one I considered an iPhone fit for purpose) and because I have been on Windows ever since my first computer (because everyone else I knew was on Windows and I needed support). iTunes for Windows, as I’m sure everyone knows, doesn’t work properly. I can’t even use it to successfully move music from the computer to the iPhone, which was one of the few functions iTunes was supposed to be able to do.

I really need to organise my digital music. Maybe Karl Lagerfeld had the right idea after all.