Lads. I'm not having fun anymore on here, so I think I'm out. You can find me on IG same name x

I love haunting, but you can't work from home.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I wonder @folklorepod.bsky.social if you know of any books specifically about the folklore of birds in the British Isles? Of course we know the magpie rhyme but there must be other stuff (wrens in Ireland, robin redbreast aside).

New book arrived from @bertsbooks.bsky.social! Now I can combine hobbies into one super hobby!

PROTESTANTS HATE ABBA, pass it on x

Since Saturday I have walked 25 miles. Today I will take Pip out for a bimble and then spend the day not doing very much of anything.

The Night Sky, 1965 The #Perseids Artist: Robert Ayton

I thinky interviewers were surprised when I said I enjoyed the test part of my interview because I like a puzzle

I have a job interview at 2 and have basically been ready since 9

We did not suffer through Baz Luhrmann at No.1 for this

I asked my Lithuanian colleague about this and she said it's nothing to do with the doll- apparently it's from the 19thC and was coined because of it rhyming as a phrase

I realised the other day that this scene imprinted on me age six and I was, as a result, destined to become a lipstick addict (I am working on the sea witch bit)

I love Taylor Swift but my very very Swifties friends are so excited about her new album that it's lovely to see (also the colour theme for the next album is orange aka my favourite colour)

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and a dog that plays basketball

Very excited that Strictly announcements are starting

No, I don't want to 'circle back'. I want to stare at the sea and wonder where the Puffins go.

Why are people

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Also this is LIFE

Rewatching Derry Girls and I still marvel at how well it captures the mid-90s. I was a teenager at the same time, albeit in Yorkshire, and so much is just spot on.

Also today, it’s the 124th anniversary of a jaunt around the gardens of Versailles by two Respectable English Ladies, who either experienced a joint hallucination, or travelled through time and saw Marie Antoinette

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1891 advertisement for LATHAM’S Family Mourning Department, Chelsea with prices for mourning goods like Widows’ Costumes, Skirt and Body fully Trimmed with Crape, £1 1s., £1 5s 6d., £1 9s. 6d. Widows’ Crape Bonnets with Veil, 6s. 11d., 8s. 11d., 10s. 6d.

My favourite doctor and companion

I think Smiths/early solo era Morrissey is one of the most clever and interesting lyricists. I also thank the stars that Johnny Marr is applying an excellent person

The amount of afternoons I spend asleep, I'm thinking I was Mediterranean cat in a past life (to be fair I do get up quite early, but still)

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

The best thing about a new handbag is making little lots so I always have everything I need. Including little good luck charm bags for each of my usual bags. And this is why I have bought Irish pennies from 1928 this morning

Pleased to celebrate International Cat Day by finally getting rid of a mat in Oscar's fur that has taken a number of days to solve (and earned me a slap and hiss combo at one point)

Indie Kylie is my favourite Kylie #totp

For National Cat Day I appear to be being yelled at for more food. Which happens everyday tbf

Didn't get the internal job I applied for as pipped to the post by someone with slightly more experience. Apparently my notes said I am "extremely appointable" and you bet your bottom dollar I am taking that energy into the weekend (I have another interview on Tuesday)

Almost fell for a banking scam- called the number and it was just *wrong* so hung up. Could kick myself, and I reckon I'm pretty savvy with these things.

This morning my child asked me to see him a ouija board and I have never been so proud

Was not expecting to see a design in my Halloween cross stitch magazine with a Bible verse number as part of the chart (Matthew 5:16, if you're interested, on a design of a jack o'lantern saying Let It Shine.)

Currently listening to an audiobook about the Maxwell trial and I am so, so angry on behalf of the women brave enough to testify. What this circus must be doing to them is unimaginable

#WyrdWednesday The tombstone of Johnny Morehouse in Dayton, Ohio's Woodland Cemetery. He died 14 August, 1860, age 4. Legend says the dog tried to save Johnny from drowning in a local canal. The boy and his dog are said to rise from the pedestal and walk around the cemetery in the twilight. LOC.gov

My phone rang and for once I got excited because of, you know, job hunting and it turned out to be a spam call. Rude.

Breaking news: the pope finally got back to his Duolingo account on Sunday. He’s now learning Italian.

Back on the job hunting today. Send luck pls x

Reading about the new adaptation of Wuthering Heights which sounds... not good and feeling sad because it (along with Margot Robbie) is one of my favourite novels*. *My favourite Brontë novel is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne. If you haven't read it yet, do.

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

That don't impress me much

After a day in the office my nervous system is like that bit in The Simpsons where Bart drinks pure Slurpee syrup

Yep, it's a popular bit of cognitive dissonance among right wingers. You see the same with Americans talking about NYC - somehow it's simultaneously Assault on Precinct 13 meets The Warriors there, but also entirely populated by effete liberal sissies who wouldn't last five minutes in the Real World

I think my favourite type of documentary interviewee is "retired no nonsense 1970s New York detective"

I never really ascribed the whole spoons theory of energy to myself but maybe I will from today. The last few weeks have been a lot and I have now collapsed in a heap after just cleaning the bathroom

I mean, I'm not mad at this (I downloaded this photo to remind me to use weights in my workouts, ha!)