Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

Oh so you were working were you? Not any more.

A million discarded messages

I for one look forward to glorious martyrdom for digging up King Donald The Undying's golf course in the name of the communist ideal.

thought for the day, a propos de rien: if you read and enjoy someone's writing, or painting, or creative work of any sort, or just how they make toast, consider telling them so.

Incoming Message From The Big Giant Head....

FAO @billherbert.bsky.social - we were just talking abut this image and lo, here it comes from the blue yonder...

It mutes your microphone when you're typing loudly on a conference call.

Sunday Night Mood: Boris Karloff leads the congregation in The Black Cat (1934). Note: no teleprompter.

I had that dream again

From this angle, the day i see ahead of me is mainly composed of doing some things I'd rather not have to do, one after the other, for eternity, only alleviated by there being - currently - no rain. Average Tuesday (pale) blues.

The GP surgery announces it has had to fire EMMA, the AI virtual receptionist, for causing chaos and a breakdown in communications between staff and patients. Back to the old portcullis system.

Contains Mild Froggishness

It's a good idea to always keep a troupe of acrobats in your shirt pocket, to alleviate boring mornings on your tram journey to the office.

Nice weather for frogs.

Life Metaphor, etc.

Nice weather for frogs.

Let's get really Ripley

It's a good idea to always keep a troupe of acrobats in your shirt pocket, to alleviate boring mornings on your tram journey to the office.

We are a very modern family. We like to fly in our plane high over the rooftops. We admire architecture. Jeanne has brought sandwiches. We shall eat them in the sky.

At the annual fair... Oops. Papa has fallen from our pretend plane. Oh dear. Uncle Guillaume has also fallen. Too bad. Mother, may we have croques Monsieur for lunch? Please, pretty please?

Good start to week: I've just been called a 'grumpy c*nt' by one of the builders next door. I asked them to please turn the radio down so that I can work [I can hear it above my headphones]. Now, it's not the first time I've been called a c*nt but it's rare in my own garden. Unacceptable? #writer

Have you received my Friendship? Funny, I mailed it last week, it should have got there. But I haven't heard from you since.. is something wrong? Yrs with best wishes Pansy, your thoughtful friend.

Classical Mythology and Designer Underwear, a combo.

The Mutton doesn't look entirely happy with this novel situation

They've recreated the Yellow Brick Road with red 'magic' carpet.

Life Metaphor, etc.

When are we going to Salamanca?

How to be a freelance typist.

angel on fly

A dog's reaction to seeing a horse for the first time...😳😳

Goodnight. "Monument to Peace" (also known as the "Angel of Peace") located near the village of Nukriani in Georgia. The monument was created by Nugzar Manjaparashvili in the 1970s.

Adelaide, you're not going to actually ski in that outfit? Real silk velvet? Silver cufflinks?

excuse me, young lady, we'd like a hot water top-up in our lapsang souchong thank you kindly it's getting tepid - what are they like, mirabelle, these young waiting staff today - they don't have the right charm to earn a tip, do they?

They can be so expressive as they develop. The blooming will be like slow motion popcorn for a couple of months.

On BBC Radio 4 Extra this afternoon www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... episode 1/4,at 4pm - A cause du sommeil, et a cause des chats - great story

Qui, moi? Mais non.

It was an old method, learned many light years ago from a Vulcan..who learned it from a stage magician in Las Vegas..

The Little Gem Magnolia is cranking out the blooms.

THE HAUNTED PALACE has many chambers: Poetry, Horror, Aesthetics, Satire, Philosophy, Hoaxing, Romance, Criticism, Farce, Ratiocination, Science... Welcome to the mind of Edgar Allan Poe. ****coming in 2027**** #EdgarAllanPoe #Theatre #Solo

I can recommend I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes, in which a man’s shoes actually land him on death row.

1952 - a production of Toad of Toad Hall, at Her Majesty's Theatre, Brighton.

Did you know that an owl was involved in promoting Jelly?? Chivers Table Jelly, to be exact.

The Man Who Loved To Encounter Exotic Birds. I can't explain this image.

LOADSTONE, as a brand name? How curious.. 'with magnetic properties' - oh, you mean addiction? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodestone

Smart shorts, to wear when one goes Scouting. I think these young men will have partly roasted legs by supper time.

a pair of affectionate frogs

"I wouldn't be in your shoes..."

Ecentric shelving system. Slightly distatesful, one might say, at the very least.

Adelaide, you're not going to actually ski in that outfit? Real silk velvet? Silver cufflinks?