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Day 1 of the 4th Ashes Test. Aus batted first and finish on 4/0. For anyone just waking up, no it hasn’t rained and no it hasn’t taken Aus all day to score 4 runs. 🤣🤣🤣 #TheAshes

That went better than the Test 😂 Wordle 1,651 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

England all out for 110, trail by 42, Atkinson second highest scorer with 28. It’s like a T20 Test 😅 #TheAshes 🏏

Aus all out for 152!! Yay!! 🥳 England currently 107/9. Oh 🤨 Bonkers 🤣 #TheAshes 🏏

“Why is this fruit cake warm???”

Merry Christmas, Christmas enjoyers! This year I introduced everyone to a British Christmas pudding, but I’m sad to report it only met with mixed approval!

Great to see @rhodri.biz #DuvetKnowItsChristmas for Centrepoint donations still hurtling along! 😁 www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour "all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.

This is full of joy and a Christmas reminder that good people far outnumber bad ❤️

FRAUD SQUAD DI: you say a third figure, a “Father Christmas” delivered the presents, and yet, if you compare the tags to this handwriting sample we gathered…they were written by you weren’t they? [My lawyer whispers something in my ear] ME: no comment

Santa has arrived at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and we take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas from the crew at AviationSource! Photo Credit: Heathrow Airport #Christmas #Christmas2025 #aviation #avgeek

Oof! 🤣 Wordle 1,650 6/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Always good to see a fellow cat appear on #DuvetKnowItsChristmas - for any of my friends that haven't seen it before, it's shepherded by @rhodri.biz and sees people sharing pictures of their temporary sleeping arrangements while visiting family or friends on Christmas Eve. It's a delight x

don’t wrap presents on the floor without a plan on how to get back up

Nobel Peace Prize candidates would never threaten Canada or Greenland, launch extrajudicial killings, or perform acts of piracy, but those are key criteria for a FIFA Peace Prize.

If you’ve never seen the Ri Christmas Lectures before, I strongly recommend you begin a gorgeous new Christmas tradition of watching them. Especially if you have kids. But even if you don’t. 28th Dec on BBC4 🎄📺🔭

Bluesky has been a safe haven away from the swamp that used to be Twitter. Thanks for all the interactions during 2025 and I wish you all a Happy Christmas and a peaceful, happy and healthy 2026. 🎄

Connections Puzzle #927 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Jofra out. Great 🤦🏼‍♀️ #TheAshes

Wordle 1,649 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

What a tragic and pointless loss of life. People such as Farage and Steven Yaxley-Lennon, who fuel racist murders like this, bear responsibility. They have blood on their hands. ‘Teens guilty of unprovoked racist murder of man taking food to his mum’

Every pup needs its own robot! 🤖

I would love to know what Amazon think might happen 😲

Staggering that this - specifically the ongoing failure to reach a verdict - isn’t the biggest story in sport. It can only be fatigue. I still can’t understand why, if City are so confident, they aren’t pushing for a faster conclusion.

If I win the lottery I’m going to get a house with 5 acres and have 2 Highland coos, 2 donkeys and 5 sheep. You can tell from the preciseness of the numbers that I’ve given this a lot of thought. 🤣

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

It’s unfortunate that batteries haven’t been invented yet 🙄

This is full of wisdom and grace ❤️ Gift link.

Ask me if I’m shocked. (I’ll save you the trouble. No.)

Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I once ended a particularly fraught bulletin by just slumping down and collapsing onto the desk in relief. And the director reminded me I was still visible on the wide shot.

all of the above is the only possible answer

👀 #TheAshes

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Connections Puzzle #926 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Might buy a lottery ticket… Wordle 1,648 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Not to suggest that I take Christmas too seriously but I made the dog leave the room before showing someone their present.

1/2 A timely reminder as you read this that contempt of court applies. Link in my 2nd post.

A bunch of rabid conspiracy theorists are running the US. Also known as the US Govt.

A great singer and wordsmith. RIP Chris 🌹 ‘Chris Rea: The car enthusiast whose love of driving inspired his songs’

I went to the supermarket and they said it’s illegal to leave without buying chocolate gingerbread buns so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Low pressure will bring unsettled weather early this week, with rain affecting Scotland and Northern Ireland on Monday morning. Elsewhere, cloud will gradually lift to leave a brighter afternoon, although a few showers remain possible in Cornwall. Find out more 👇

Some TfL services will be ending early this Christmas Eve: 🚇 Tube & Overground: Reduced service from 8pm 🚌 Bus: Saturday service, no night buses Complete journeys early and check before travelling: tfl.gov.uk/status-updat...

Mani ❤️

Wonderful!