Flat Stanley's great, great uncle

Trent Reznor finds some surprisingly small sea creatures Nine inch whales

The builders have outdone themselves. TWO radios, one on each side of the roof. Each playing different tunes. Readers, I went and had a Middle Aged Word with them.

Archive fabulousness

New P.G Wodehouse novel just dropped

My favourite Sam Neill film. If you've not seen it, it's absolutely lovely.

I'm such a child.

Super interesting event by some brilliant people:

Ad Astra, Wally!

I (still) have several hundred newspaper adverts to look through and that only takes me to 1871. YE GODS

My guys getting there 155 years before the film

On my way, Clacton.

Waffles for breakfast, anyone? 🤣

Today is the only day the next door neighbour’s builders haven’t shown up, but fear not noise fans, another neighbour is chainsawing and chipping the tree that came down in the storm. I hate everyone.

My husband, waiting for a gig to start, has suspicions that it might be loud.

..wanting to make some changes to a doc in Final Draft, which I've paid for, but it's locked me out and I've been waiting for a password reset for over an hour. I miss just owning what I've paid for.

Somerset breaks the heat record : Rosa and I DISAPPROVE

Nigel Farage has filed his second complaint against HOPE not hate in a month. 🧵

And they told me I’d never be a dancer

Happy Birthday, Nan! You would have been 111 today, been bloody annoyed about the heat but probably made some rock buns anyway. Love you and miss you.

In an attempt to get away from the heat and the noise of next door's builders I have set up a new desk on the landing upstairs, two sets of stone walls away from the yelling with a fan that makes a terrible noise that I am hoping to get used to. Wish me luck. It's that, or murder.

Hail the size of pound coins. At least 5cm rain. 2 alarms set off. Lost light, visibility, power.

Huge thunderstorms here…

You know I can’t resist a crafting joke on a summer Sunday afternoon.

Waiting for an ambulance for my father in law…. We called at 7:11am. It really is the longest day.

Occasionally I actually do well up with patriotism.

Well done, good people of Makerfield.

I am about to commence operation “paint my way out of the flat” in which I will pack the van and then paint the floors and exit and drive away and absolutely not leave something vital, like the van keys, in the bedroom ….

Sparks last night. A point of pure joy amongst all the rest of the stuff life is currently slingshotting this way. (Poor photo, my phone is very elderly. But not as old as Ron)

They are axing The World Tonight which means I will never fall asleep again. 😫

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

Let's answer your questions

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Old chestnut, Punch, 1876 Medium: The Spirit of the late Mr. Jones is present. Jone’s Widow (with emotion): I hope you are happy Jones! Jones (raps): Far happier than I ever was on earth! Jones’s Widow: Oh, Jones! Then you must be in Heaven! Jones: On the contrary!

@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social paging Kristof… where’s the meal…?

Knowing I am going away, a mosquito woke me up many times last night, bit me in the face and then died loudly in my ear after I socked it (and myself) one. I am now very tired with nice big red face spots.

Getting ready to go to a conference (with a weekend away tacked on) which means we have to take Rosa to her holiday home for SIX NIGHTS. Longest we’ve been apart for five years. 🙁And she knows something’s up…

I now have a work room at the end of the garden. What I didn't appreciate, when coming in here to work earlier, was that torrential rain really does trap a person. I should have brought snacks.

Nothing like trying to cram several hours' worth of material into 20 minutes. The corpses of my darlings lie scattered around me but there are more, begging for mercy.....

THERE IS HEDGEHOG POO IN THE GARDEN, I repeat, THERE IS HEDGEHOG POO IN THE GARDEN

Overheard at the supermarket: Weary woman: do you think we should get some loo roll or will there be some there, should we chance it? Man: I’m easy either way. So many things are wrong here…

Gorgeous day. Clown plane’s out. NNNNYyyyyyyyyuuaaaaasrrrrrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Working on a presentation on 19th century stage magic this afternoon and during breaks, sewing a camper van mattress cover. The combination seems to have resulted in a haunted sewing machine.

A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper

She loves her bowl and I love when she walks around with it like she’s from Aardman

Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.

I’m interested to know more about this. Is this a group that we can get behind? Is this how we can turn things around?

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