What would be the worst foodstuff to find a golden ticket in the packaging for?

Fond of this painting in the National Gallery - a portrait of Giovanni Agostino della Torre and his son Niccolò, by Lorenzo Lotto, not least because it looks like a Christmas day video call with your dad and your brother.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time (unstressed on Polymarket: 12%);

Is there a french history sleuth corner of bluesky who might be able to find a more detailed account of this jaunt in local archives? Reports are from Thu 26 Feb, so the pancake distribution might have been 135 years ago today

Making spanakopita and now it looks like someone's birthed a Shrek in the kitchen

It is Sunday, a day to reflect youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?...

Rembrandt self portraits and Penang Prawn Mee

that 'recreate a photo of yourself as a kid' challenge is doing the rounds again

that 'recreate a photo of yourself as a kid' challenge is doing the rounds again

I can't remember the context in the book, except that I think it was presented as a chain email received by somebody, but a version of this appears somewhere in the pages of Infinite Jest.

Winning the “Life at Night” category in our 2025/26 Astrophotography Competition was Richard Murray’s shot, “Snail Trail to the Stars”, capturing a snail beneath The Plough asterism. Congratulations, Richard - you really snailed it! 🐌

Success at the Betsey Book Quiz in that we came about 4th last (with a team of 2) and scooped a sack of pickled onion crisps for the best name: The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing, by Milan Cortina

Margate yesterday. Bracing walk. Fish and chips. Bridget Riley. Crab museum, shell grotto and caves. No rain.

A team of skeletons in the Olympics would be pretty metal

now in the olympics, the moguls

...these narratives are connected via a film, Infinite Jest, also called "the Entertainment" or "the samizdat". The film is so compelling that its viewers lose all interest in anything other than repeatedly viewing it, and thus eventually die.

this guy Klaebo in the ski sprint was very impressive, like watching a terminator

Even men with cruel hearts love to see a dog on the piste

Today: Delaunay Counter cafe and the Hunterian museum 👍

For sale: baby shoes, cum stains

first look at the medal table by western zodiac sign. solid start for team aries. #shitonthelibra

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

I see the iPlayer is now showing Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee - good silly fun, worth a try

will the BBC show the men's downhill final in full, or do I need to subscribe to something?

February honks. Bring back january

just remembered Werner Herzog's ski jumping film, might try and dig this up tonight by fair means or foul youtu.be/i-Zsl3kJlVc?...

I'm on a rail replacement bus that is wishing me a happy new year

Sunday 1 Feb in my grandfather's farm diary, 1948

Christo Palace Dinosaurs

Bird people, is this goose (seen in London last weekend) a hybrid? Canada x greylag maybe? It was very cute

I have put a curse on the new SL11 bus

Bird people, is this goose (seen in London last weekend) a hybrid? Canada x greylag maybe? It was very cute

3 young women at the bus stop just asked me what my favourite colour was. No idea why

My dad and my uncle did this in something like 1960, though I think they were there to keep an eye on Manx Shearwaters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Butt dial M for manslaughter

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive

Your kids might like this fucked up banal irritation (7,8)

Tonight will be a curry and then Nish Kumar in Greenwich. No info on the rest of the bill

20 years, blimey. To paraphrase Hazlitt I was determined to see this whale, come what would, and see it I did, in great style. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Betsey Book Quiz update - a mid table finish but we scooped both the spot prizes so have about 6 books and 2 tshirts

This picture is quite something. Pentti Sammallahti, 1982

Green sky at night, space nerds delight

January is the Monday of months, so a Monday in January is Monday². But if you think in terms of the millennium, it's going to be Monday morning till about 2071

Only after buying this book did I notice that someone has carefully cut out the image of the dagger planted in the back of the murder victim on the cover

London crew - is the Museum of Brands any cop?

Gonna tell the kids this is Neil Young

OTT Harriet's shaken up the big show (3,8)

Is Greenland the country/autonomous territory/landmass that makes the most convincing ghost?