It's the opening night of the proms, so have an orchestra on the very edge... youtu.be/kYrUWfLlYI0?...

One thing a life in the UK poorly prepares you for: when Autumn turns to Winter in the Mediterranean, it generally does so with a CRASH. A few years back when I was staying in Corfu, a storm punched through, and I lost a table and nearly all my underwear. 1/

A favourite Sam Neill post of ours, from back on the other place. (He followed me over there, for some obscure reason)

It's a dangerous time of year to open the front door. There's always a neighbour trying to foist courgettes on you.

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

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Ida Frosk, aka Ida Skivenes, a food artist from Norway, who makes and eats her own art #WomensArt #Tuesday

🇺🇸 holds a cage fight on the WH lawn 🇫🇷 : Hold our beer/wine

@simonhendy.bsky.social 😁

Had a scam call... 'You have 2.5 bitcoin in your wallet. We can help you trade it'. I said 'I'll sell it for book tokens please'. Sadly they hung up!

Singing "All the cheese is gone, and the fridge is closed" to the cat, to the tune of 'California Dreamin''. He does not appreciate my extemporising.

BABE WAKE UP, NEW RICE TRUCK SAGA JUST DROPPED

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Years ago we put googly eyes on a giant paperclip and stuck it to the wall. Now the blu tack has melted and the paperclip has grown ears and this is basically what Darwin was talking about. #NationalPaperclipDay

Goodbye <Redacted> account on Bluesky and your 47 retweets. ...sigh...

Scientists believe that a function of a zebra’s stripes is to deter insects, so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on several cows and discovered that it reduced the number of biting flies landing on the cows by more than 50%.

Manquent quelques preux & damoiselles.. Via Ritorta, une ruelle médiévale de Pérouse,Ombrie,Italie.Ce passage se distingue par son enchevêtrement complexe d'arches de briques, de contreforts et de passages voûtés en pierre.

Rhubarb, it’s celery in drag.

I'd have a same size house but with a bigger garden. So I could have a massive greenhouse and grow all kinds of exotic things. And a pond, with ducks. A billion quid buys a lot of ducks.

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

“Thecess pit that is Hebden Bridge” 🫠

The replies to this are splendid!

WOR radio transmitting tower. Margaret Bourke-White, 1935

Love this description from Len Deighton’s Ipcress Files: “His profusion of long lank yellow hair hung heavily across his head like a Shrove Tuesday mishap.”

What I do all day… www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/post/what-i-...

Hauling out this photo again.

In Korean, the word for cowboys, 속기 쉬운, translates literally to “American horse pirates” * read on for more of my all-time favourite translations from around the world (a thread)…

I see we're at the '2am drunk outside a northern nightclub' stage of transatlantic diplomacy...

In light of recent panic about people having more than one language in their heads, I thought I’d do something deeply unpatriotic: A thread of my favourite weird Afrikaans words 🇿🇦 You’re welcome / I’m sorry. 🐻

I love Scott Seiss