In these difficult times, it is gently suggested that you carry with you a number of postcard-sized leaflets emblazoned with the wording: 'I strenuously deny all allegations'

Scene from a spy film

makes total sense to ask the millipede to play the keyboards

leetle bit more scritchy scratchy

"Doctor, it's me nerves, me nerves, doctor"

Mood

Advertising for the Kit Kat restaurant and music hall, 1936, Cairo.

Gregor Samsa gets a round of Guinness in. (Photo by Alex Wild).

May you find someone who loves you as much as this cat loves my well-worn trainers... 😻👟 #caturday #CatsOfBlueSky

Mood

oh god he has multiplied (Walter left, Raymond right)

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

In Susan Cooper's 'Over Sea, Under Stone' (1965), some standing stones loom over the village of Trewissick. Mr Penhallow tells the children that ‘people thought the rocks were haunted, and unlucky, and he sounded as if he believed it himself. He said they call them the Gravestones.’ #BookWormSat

That Etruscan robe has human figures embroidered on it. I don't think I've ever seen that before on any depiction of Greek or Roman clothing, aside from, say, a Gorgon head or whatnot as part of a design border?

ICYM:

I would kill or die for Larry

A joy to receive these in print! A joy to copyedit them. 💗

Today my fingers wrote suasages and, while I like the inventiveness, it was not what I intended them to type. suasages. sorry...

The fire of the never felt

Don't come to Rutland, you'd hate it. [I am, as ever, beholden to Millie the Cocker for top quality dog therapy after a hellish week] #dogsofbluesky

People being asked their four fav movies for Letterboxd always act as though an archangel at the pearly gates has asked them to account for their sins

I doubt I will ever witness a better description of pheasants than the time I heard a ten-year-old call them "fashion chickens".

Clay tobacco pipe heads, 19th century Musée de la Vie wallonne, Liège. Photo taken in 1917-1918. www.kikirpa.be/en/

Come for the American Drinks, stay for the Suasages

Country Club? In Hammamet? Strange.

"Doctor, it's me nerves, me nerves, doctor"

leetle bit more scritchy scratchy

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy.

Me, in my better years

A bit of scritch-scratch insectery

#PhantomsFriday 'Ghosts I have Seen' by Scottish spiritualist & psychic, Violet Tweedale (1862-1936) who was also a prolific author. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the introduction to another of her books, 'Phantoms of the Dawn'.

Amazing ancient Lurs from Bronze Age Denmark. Thirty-nine of these bronze horns have been found in Danish peat bogs, likely deposited as ritual offerings some 3,000 years ago! Fun fact: Lurs are the inspiration behind the name and logo of Denmark’s Lurpak® butter! 🧈 🎺 🇩🇰 #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Another small thread of insect scritchy-scratch (are you not entertained?)

a bit more scritchy scratchy insect life...

A bit of scritch-scratch insectery

Me, in my better years

The 14th is a short story

[A silent plea for a silent see(ing)]

Scene from a spy film

Prehistoric pets

Can-can-cans

Robert Delaunay Football, 1918 Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne - Centre de création industrielle

A cat has got to be the least herdable animal in the world 😂 TT: @sonjaboostrom

The more I read this, the more I love it…

‘I don't like the look of it at all," said the King: "however, it may kiss my hand if it likes." "I'd rather not," the Cat remarked.’ ~ Carroll, AIW. This #BookWormSat celebrates Alice’s Day with children’s fantasy literature. Do join us. 🖼️ John Tenniel

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door — Pray, what is the reason of that?"