Apropos of absolutely nothing. Here's a collection of Harriet Tyce's books in a delightful little bundle. Anyway, I'm off to watch The Traitors. bertsbooks.co.uk/product/the-...

Happy new year, Rory fans.

2025 Year in Review! -falcon hearing worse than ever -center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity -blood-dimmed tide containment failure -the Worst with record high passionate intensity

Every year I give more consideration to whether I would throw in my lot with the snappily dressed, intelligent and witty (if murderous) thief.

Spare a thought for the emergency services and hospital staff on duty tonight and tomorrow, through the revelry. They do so much and most of us never see it, or hope we don't.

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.

The face of a dog who yearns to go ouuuut and do a very small bark at the foxxxxxxes, pleeeeeeease…

I had a cry earlier (Christmas has been a tough time in recent years) and the cat, who hates me, came into the room where he never sits, curled up and stared at me like this until I felt better. Then he left again.

Really sad about Chris Rea. Driving Home for Christmas is one of my small seasonal pleasures as we point the car northwest for Holyhead.

THERE'S STILL TIME FOR YOU TO LEAVE YOUR FEEDBACK I don't want to. That's why I haven't already. ... OK BUT THERE'S STILL TIME. IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND. solid no from me dog. I'LL MESSAGE YOU EVERY DAY UNTIL YOUR FEELINGS CHANGE IT'S NO TROUBLE YOU'LL GET USED TO ME HELLO HELLO HELLO

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...

I’d forgotten what a pick-me Cameron Diaz’s character is in The Holiday.

I’m just under the weather enough to go back to bed, aka the sweet spot where you can live like a lizard under a heat lamp without guilt.

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

Wondering how to watch the Winter Solstice livestream from Newgrange? Our short how-to video guides you step by step. 📅 21 Dec ⏰ 8.40am 🌅 Live from inside the chamber Save the link and tune in: gov.ie/solstice #WinterSolstice #Newgrange #ShareTheSolstice #OPW

Look at this beautiful picture I took yesterday afternoon while forcing my husband to accompany me to retrace my steps on the morning’s dog walk looking for the lost keys that were in my bag all along.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Reminder: this is a Christmas film.

Me: Where's my bag? Teen: I gave it back to you. Me: You didn't! Teen: Yes I did; I left it on the floor of my room.

Jonesy

Absolutely devastating. What is lost is irreplaceable.

#LiteraryAdventCalendar2025 Day 2. The hugely-missed Susie Steiner demonstrating that a cracking police procedural can also have brilliantly-funny glimpses of domestic life:

‘It’s the most! wonderful time! of the year…’ 🎶🎄

"Look for me in the trees. I will be there in the trees." A letter worth reading? ✅️🤍 (Sent into The Irish Times)

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

The Rob Reiner news is so awful.

Sincere thanks to whoever at Sainsbury’s hq decided Save a Prayer should be on the Christmas music rotation.

Chag Chanukah sameach from Ozzy

Is there anything more annoying than getting repeated come-hither emails from a company about a product which is not available in your size which is why you didn't buy it?

You can watch your little Christmas films if you like.

Someone came back from getting his hair done with a real diva attitude.

Before you encourage your children to do ‘music’ and ‘drama’ consider the week before Christmas, your plans, their love for the spotlight, your introverted nature and how many hours of your life remain. If it isn’t a showcase it’s a concert at the moment.

Really extremely sad. Such a bright and lively mind.

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

This time of year is when you see people talking about their reading and extolling the pleasure of the Cormoran Strike books for the central relationship and you want to sidle in to recommend another, different series but you can’t because that’s cringe.

An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌 Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

On form as ever. @patrickfreyne.bsky.social is one of those wonderful writers who can make any subject, no matter how trivial, a joy to read about.

Highlight of today was explaining earnestly to someone that the reason I’ve written so many books is that I’m much easier to live with when my head is in a fictional world. Normal, normal.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I know it’s Fashion but I can’t meet Claudia where she is with the white stilettos.

You can master any skill if you practise it for 10,000 hours except applying liquid eyeliner.

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

Relatable Corvid