Inside this isolated rural church is a magnificent and potentially unique medieval treasure. This is St Peulan's, Llanbeulan on Anglesey, which was founded in the 7th century. 1/8

Today is Plough Monday - by tradition the start of the agricultural year Artist: John Berry (The Farmer, 1963)

Quelle surprise

The death penalty: the ultimate censure. To be reserved for high treason, premeditated murders that shock the conscience, and of course for those mildly inconveniencing or in any way emasculating a federal agent.

WARNING: This glue not to be used by people wearing ties or with hipster beards

Answering a ringing telephone from an uknown number.

Does Louise mean Bluesky, which is a very narrow band of disgruntled middle-aged Centrists (& intermittent x-users, to boot), or Facebook, which is now a festering sewer of nudge-nudge-wink-wink Reform opinions?

Cotswolds gritters run out of Himalayan pink salt buff.ly/RzOvYrB

he'd probably get a medal nowadays

Trump seems to have forgotten that Santa lives in Greenland, and has lots of ways to retaliate

"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"

i don’t speak Portuguese but i understood every word of this one

Nowadays, the word "should" is a subtext for futility & impotence

Paging @michaelglasper.bsky.social

Still not being quite sure what day it is in early January is the modern day equivalent of writing a cheque with last year's date on it, isn't it?

An excellent sub heading from @theguardian.com 👏🏻

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

When is Doris Day

Maduro is the New York mayor, right?

You can an ointment for that

Multiple lols spinning off into space

I never knew Caracas was the capital of Venezeula

Nobody does the hokie-cokie anymore, do they?

Well... some good news for once!

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This from @vizcomic.bsky.social will never get old.

Family all (still) home. Thinking of investing in a small but productive dairy cow for the back yard

Sold a phallus-shaped haggis to Germaine Greer

So apparently it's Saturday today, in case anyone else is planning to ring an unsuspecting colleague & talk about next week's meeting

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Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

To be fair - Nathan does sound pretty chastened

Trump's pick for Indonesian ambassador

Pretty certain that if Mephistopheles was around today, he'd work for the subscriptions dept of Adobe Acrobat

Got foxes in the back yard. How does arrange for the local fox hunt to drop by & sort them?

Annual Xmas Eve stroll along the river at Durham

Just reviewing photos of solstice trip to Long Meg & spotted this strange little figure

At breakfast in Mal Maison in Manchester. Sitting next to Irvine Welsh who must have been in town for Mani's funeral

Dec 1994: Viennetta ad from Wall's / Somerfield / Gateway (+Wall's Magnum 3 Pack Plus I EXTRA FREE; Wall's Viennetta Cappuccino 600ml; Wall's Viennetta White Chocolate 600ml; Wall's Viennetta Chocolate 600ml; and Wall's Original Viennetta 600ml) «Wall's have come tumbling down.»

I remember reading something by Alan Bennett about re-reading a book. Previously, he'd drawn a line next to a paragraph. The next time he read it, he spent ages rereading the section to see what was so important about it, before realising it was a hair, not a pencil mark

Thatcher would have had Jimmy Savile & Cliff Richard

You wouldn't have got this with Thatcher.

Winter Solstice at Long Meg

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️

Annual Winter Solstice pilgrimage to Long Meg & Her Daughters. Meg herself allegedly aligns with the setting solstice sun, but we have been going for over a decade & it's always been thick cloud. It's Bronze Age builders must have been very patient