I hate the word 'poop' more than I can express www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Valentine's cards for people who don't do soppy. gailmyerscough.co.uk/valentines-cards

Next Saturday, January 31st, from 11.05am BBC2 is showing a brace of Powell & Pressburger masterpieces - first, the absolutely gorgeous restoration of I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING followed by the incredible A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH... #FilmSky

John Miles + Blake’s 7 = Friday night perfection #totp

Forgot their games kit and had to borrow the Rollers away strip #totp

Errol Brown going Green with his recycling #yousexything #totp

Why stop at just three wets? #totp

This NFL playoff. What it lacks in quality it also lack in character. CJ Stroud is having a nervous breakdown in realtime.

Morocco subbing Brahim Diaz in case it goes to penalties #afcon

Morocco subbing Brahim Diaz in case it goes to penalties #acon

Brahim Diaz..........whatever the opposite of "you'll never have to buy a drink again in your life" is: that

I am making the supreme sacrifice in the name of solidarity. For as long as Trump is threatening Greenland I will boycott American bread and chocolate.

A lot of words to basically say: OK, GOING TO THE PUB MIGHT NOT BE GOOD FOR YOUR WAISTLINE/SLEEP/WALLET but it might be really really good for your friendships, stress, connections and happiness. So it's actually healthy to go to the pub, you guys, and maybe we should all just do that a bit more

Just gets better and better

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I’m really starting to hate this fixture, can’t remember the last time it wasn’t a slightly miserable slog. (But may be overindexing on the 1-1 with Viv’s great pass for Stina, the only highlight in a bleak “well, that’s the title challenge dead” game.)

The discussion on #R4Today is about whether the idea of a rules-based international order is misguided idealism. What the panel seem to forget is it was an attempt to avoid another world war.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Don’t know these newcomers but reckon they’ll go far #totp

All 3 chords on display there #totp

Absolute Banger #pretenders #totp

Human league - Duran Duran’s cooler elder brother #totp

Happy twelfth night everyone! It is still Christmas, and anyone who says different us weird and being weird. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

We write the letter B like this because it's a house with one room on each floor (from the Phoenician Bet meaning a) house b) the name of the second letter of the alphabet)

Lovely to be able to tune into the Taize meeting at Sacre Coeur in Paris. In 1988 a gang of us stopped off there on a night out after a hard day preparing the music for a previous Taize meeting and were asked to stop singing. Very happy memories.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GUw-bje0SY

I'd recommend the discussion at 02:10:30 between John and Amy Hunt, the Queen and Theresa May, on the murder of Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt. It's a breathtaking insight into misogyny, violence against women, and finding a way to live through unspeakable loss. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Loving the slime mould interest and great photos. These are key organisms in the environment i did one dissertation on to assess pesticide impact. Slime mould - a hidden wonderland brought to life in photos - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC Radio 3 seems to have nearly abandoned Christmas music by the 5th day of Christmas (after acres of it during Advent). Seems a shame

The first half of Messiah is just banger after banger after banger - Handel knew how to write a catchy tune www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

Can you even call yourself a proper parent if you don’t spend the entire time when your family are opening presents on Christmas Day hovering around them on high alert with a bin bag to instantly gather up the discarded wrapping paper.

This has made me cry - such an uplifting story

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years

“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” Alkanj recounted, before Ahmed tackled the shooter, taking his rifle. this guy, honestly. amazing.

For complete clarity, people like Connor Tomlinson are not “controversialists” or “the UK’s answer to X or Y”. They’re very basic, ordinary, grubby racists.

I don't normally (er) 'do God' on here, but the far right talking Christianity? Disgusting. Everything they are is antithetical to love: hateful, arrogant, closed, smirking, knowing, unserious, dishonest, despairing, degraded, repugnant moral filth. The light of hope is a good disinfectant.

slightly random but I’m running a stall selling my cousin’s home made jam at Camberwell Market tomorrow 11-4 if anyone needs last-minute stocking fillers

A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he worked in Delft & Amsterdam, where he lived 1629-1683. National Gallery London

Best recent one was watching After the Hunt with a Monday Night crowd (all 6 of us) - the other party of four were exchange students from Yale who whispered excitedly when a familiar college building came up on screen

You could accuse these Christmas Puddini Bonbons of being a bit cutesy, a bit kitsch, and certainly the name I’ve bestowed upon them is more than a bit camp, but that’s just how the spirit of Christmas takes me! Plus they’re delish, and a most worthy #RecipeOfTheDay. www.nigella.com/recipes/chri...

So, you cross the Po on the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele 1, do the short climb up the Monte dei Cappuccini, turn the final bend and suddenly you're staring across Turin at the Alps. It's an extraordinary moment.

THE INDUSTRY: People expect artists to do slick, highly choreographed live shows KATE RUSBY: I want a 1980s pub set and an original pub organ. And a brass section. Then we're going to do two hours of just Xmas songs. And all dress up as characters from Frozen.

Zesting a lemon has grate a peel.

How AI has made my life better (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-ai-has...

With John Rutter as composer of the week & Tavener’s The Lamb on the mixtape there’s a risk @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social are going to run out of tunes well before Christmas #paceyourself #norush

The best book yet - maybe - from a Nobel laureate; a novel where PG Wodehouse makes a guest appearance; a book where Islamic State fighters are in need of Viagra; and two Scandinavian septologies, neither of which is by Jon Fosse. Me on five of the best works of translated fiction this year:

Starlings doing their starling thing this weekend at @rspb.bsky.social Otmoor

General Post Office poster, 1960

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