"In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous." —Elsa Schiaparelli

Paracet ‘em all, I say. Let God sort ‘em out.

Norway has stepped in — not with campaigns, but with craftsmanship. Engineers have created floating ice pods designed to replace the vanishing habitat. They're made from biodegradable, non-toxic materials. Insulated to stay cold under the Arctic sun.

Long boi. #caturday #CatsOfBlueSky.

Nice little illustration (by one Charles Lucien Guyot) of a chameleon working evening shifts as a candle-snuffer, utilising his fabulous elasticated tongue action, while also using its prehensile tail to replicate the coiled handle of the candlestick.

Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize

Struck by this saying of Goethe: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

GAAAAH all this talk of The Rapture has given me a Blondie earworm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCd...

Wanted to randomly hug a man at a bus stop this afternoon. He was about 70, I think, walked with a stick but was very upright & slender. He he insisted I get on the bus before him (I was carrying two big bags) His smile was utter radiance - just a force field of gentle kindness, a beautiful thing

I spent a few lovely days near Lake George. My favorite of the Beatle lakes.

…and then katie who is very quiet most of the time says no that wasn’t in the past because it’s happening today it’s happening now she saw it on her phone and that we’re all going to die tomorrow or the day after… #poem #poetry

Have you had your crushed-tylenol-toast for brunch today?

Thanks to @alcs.co.uk who today are sending me enough for a week's grocery shopping, which I consider very useful indeed. It still feels like 'magic money', to me. Utterly brilliant organisation.

Forgive the self promotion but a couple of events coming up that I'm taking part in. On Thursday 25th I'm on a panel with Neil Forsyth (Guilt, The Gold) Really looking forward to this....I think it might be full but you might be able to register for the online version if you fancy it.

Heard the expression 'the mango mussolini' this week, from a friend formerly of this parish - as descriptions go, it zings!!

RAPTCHA

Season of mellow mists, darker nights, strange noises in the attic, etc, etc.

Yes, thank you, I'll gladly accept a little camionette. Yes, yes, oui, oui, merci.

Sometimes I dream about rummaging in suitcases. That makes me sound like a dodgy character, but my 20s was all about jumble sales/selling vintage clothing, so there were many suitcases.. I miss the thrill of all that search & discovery. The 10p rails. The silk & satin dresses. The coats, the hats.

Venice is Nice, at any time of year..

Let's go to Egypt for our holidays. Via time machine.

on each planet you visit this question should be asked do you honour poets, painters and if you're told 'no, we evolved into withered beings with AI brains' walk backwards to your ship haul anchor, say goodbye sail to the next star in the sky SM(c.)

Listen, Timmy, with these four special magic buttons, you're going to train up your sister for a life in harness, at your direction, carrying your dead weight. Now do you love your mummy?

Hello? Hello? HELLO!?? Is that Dock Green Police Station? Madame, vous êtes en erreur. Ici le Quai Des Orfèvres.

The Everlasting Fascination of Aluminium Kitchenware

I said, don't call me Suze..

nice red car

what?

Don't call me Suze.

A lobster in Zurich. One of the lesser known Graham Greene novels.

a nice fantasy battery handbag

#MusicMonday Petr Válek builds (and deconstructs) mechanical and electro-mechanical musical instruments or self-propelled kinetic objects, constructed from found household items. He also performs as Der Marebrechst — a bizarre noise musician and crazy inventor. vasulkakitchen.org/en/event/pet...

I feel seen.

Listen, Timmy, with these four special magic buttons, you're going to train up your sister for a life in harness, at your direction, carrying your dead weight. Now do you love your mummy?

where do knitting companies get their terrible names for new lines of woollies.. (climax baby knitting is at the least odd)

I repeat emphatically, I did not steal it, i simply shrugged it on in passing.

Hello? Hello? HELLO!?? Is that Dock Green Police Station? Madame, vous êtes en erreur. Ici le Quai Des Orfèvres.

Fellow humans, floating through the murky soup of our planet's political climate, desperate for sight of a small sheltering island, may i offer you a cup of tea, and an oatcake with gingery marmalade on it? Also, a hug if additional care is needed. Virtual, gratis. It's that kind of day.

14:56 - i conclude that this day is not going to contain any enormously useful personal activity, except in the napping, keeping warm, and thinking zones.

Apparently some authors look forward to their royalty statements, rather than it being crushing confirmation of professional failure

Got to say, Polanski understands how you bring the fight

When using a public weighing machine, check in case a random dachshund has hopped onto the scale to sniff your ankles and induce a panic attack about your dietary habits...

What if everyone who worked in international hotels and restaurants spoke fluent Esperanto? Would your dinner arrive quick-quick and your waiters smile more happily?

You can probably guess what this is, even if you're too young to have spent time in very basic/primitive lavatories.

I"m going shopping for groceries. When I get home I'll heap the radishes and tomatoes in a lovely glass comporte trifle dish things and surround it by napkin sailing boats.

Some of the many uses of hair-dryers.

This child has been making the argument for putting a pinch of chicory in your coffee since before you were born.

(Writer tradition of 'killing the blank page' taken seriously)

Weird old flower names: Black Archangel. Love in a Tangle. Witches' Tree. Grave of the sea. Goat's Beard. John-go-to-bed-at-Noon. Fairy Flax. Devil's Darning Needle & Prick My Nose. Many of these were colloquial names that arose before literacy was widespread but imagination ran riot