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Congratulations to all the witty winners of last Sunday’s caption contest: 🥇 @spacexecadet.bsky.social 🥈 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social =🥉 @goldilevels.bsky.social @paulhamer1.bsky.social and highly commended to @genevievelakier.bsky.social & @xanaxides.bsky.social more to amuse at #GirlsOwnCC

Daphne, lolling around as usual.

Once, when I was in Herefordshire, a stoat crossed the road in front of my car and still, to this day, I don’t know if it was carefully carrying a baby stoat in its mouth or if it was in the process of murdering a weasel.

A mass tut.

The whole house smells of soot. When it’s very hot, soot falls down the chimneys. Nobody’s used the fires for about 50+ years. It’s nice to think that some of the soot might even be Victorian or older.

Short story about my aunt. A neighbour came to visit her and found her arranging used teabags over the radiator to dry. The neighbour said “Oh, Christine, has it come to this? Reusing teabags?” My aunt explained that, decades before, she had heard Don Revie talking on the telly and he said he …

Best YouTube comment on a discussion about the Farage/Count Binface competition: Ich bin ein Binliner #Binface

From the Guardian's obituary for Glibert Adair (1944-2011): He once told us on the arts desk of what had happened when he rang one of his publishers. "You aren't by any chance Red Adair," asked a secretary to whom his name clearly meant nothing. "No," he snapped back, "I'm unread Adair."

I’ve just rescued two drowning fruit flies. It was only as they flew off sniggering that I realised this wasn’t a sensible thing to do.

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage Resigns - Now Leave Him Alone. ⚠️ WATCH and SHARE this report from #BrokenNews youtu.be/X5Ifr4zGr-M

what is the point of setting your alarm for 8 when the kittens go off at 6?

Belgium’s come a long way since the 1970s when it ALWAYS came last in Jeux Sans Frontières.

Name of the day: just been reading about a man called Cloudsley Shovell. I wonder if he did a Hyacinth Bucket on it and pronounced it ShovELL.

Gregor Samsa gets a round of Guinness in. (Photo by Alex Wild).

“Why, Mr Montgomery, is that a riding crop in your hand or are you just pleased to see me.” #GirlsOwnCC

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In the Victorian Park close to where i live. Gave me goosebumps.

A rather attractive mouse has been living in the pantry for about three weeks. I have seen it and periodically hear crunching sounds. Daphne only noticed it yesterday. She spent about 10 minutes trying ineffectually to find it and then BROUGHT ANOTHER ONE IN.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Disappointed the BBC didn't go for Egyptian Reggae in their #AUSEGY pre-game montage. Any excuse for Legs and Co's greatest #totp moment then... #WorldCup youtu.be/Bv_I-6dJ9p8?...

The older I get the more I think that Richard Strauss should have been strangled at birth.

Just seen a film on Instagram comparing different versions of the Dance of the Cygnets from Swan Lake and, astonishingly, they didn’t mention this, the most iconic version. youtu.be/p6wMWdxXXvo?...

After a series of unplanned pregnancy incidents at the local college*, my sister has adopted a number of shameless vole hussies and their offspring. They have fully occupied one room of her house. * specifically, Small Animal Husbandry for Pleasure and Profit course** ** may not be its actual name

“Honestly, Fred, I told you not to paint the fence American Flag Blue!” #GirlsOwnCC

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Radio 3 has been playing Siegfried for about three days.

AI’s unsought after contribution of the day: “Would you like to know more about the controversial history of British showjumping, or are you looking for advice on creating a hedgehog-friendly garden in your area?”

Among all the weighty matters which occupy my mind, I am constantly amazed that Reform/fascist-adjacent personalities, such as Katie Hopkins and Andrea Jenkins, reach for the American middle finger when seeking to dish out abuse and not the more British and more patriotic two-fingered salute.

Marvellous!

Well disguised cats. @annebillson.bsky.social

….spoilt for choice for highly commended, all these deserve 👏👏👏 @kayess.bsky.social @uitlander.co.uk @p1dge0n.bsky.social @ankaret.bsky.social @erichindle.bsky.social

Double top 🥇🥈 for @erburyoldboy.bsky.social in last Sunday’s caption contest then 🥉 @mrsnodes.bsky.social and 4th @kayemcelle.bsky.social and….

Talking of rats, saw a badger crossing the road last night. It had a jaunty swagger.

Headline on news website: “Fish and chip restaurant granted midnight alcohol licence despite rat worries.” I’m not sure how the rats conveyed their anxiety about the grant of the licence but I’m sorry that their worries seem to have been dismissed out of hand.

I was furious when my anger management counselling was rearranged.

A friend has just told me she’s supposed to be going to Motivational Yoga tonight but can’t be bothered.

For reasons I won’t go into, a bag of non-recycling has ended up in the recycling bin & was collected this morning. In the bag were car keys, house keys, aunt’s house keys, next-door’s house keys, church keys etc. I’ve contacted the council and their contractors in hope there will be a miracle 🤞🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, repost to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

Five minutes to 10 and this is the sky.

If anyone would like to see a photo of a Sifaka Lemur suddenly realising that it's gone out and left the oven on, then this is your lucky day.

Can't you, though...

I’ve just got this book which is really useful and fascinating although I was disappointed to learn that you can’t yet (officially) be composted. Wouldn’t it be great if relatives, instead of getting an urn of ashes, got a small bag of compost with which you could, literally, push up the daisies?

Burnham wins. Reform stumbles. The narrative shifts. Pecksniff on Labour's new blue-eyed boy. And the awkward questions now facing Nigel Farage. Read the latest Pecksniff's Diary for this & more

One of the most unappealing aspects of British (English) identity is the desire to be both Gloriana AND Mrs. Dale- or in the case of "Boris" and Farage- Idle Jack and Churchill. It's an irreconcilable tension: to be a bumbling amateur and chess grandmaster.

Reading a book set in the 1950s and one of the characters has a Scottish Fold cat, a”breed” that didn’t exist before 1961 and now I don’t think I can carry on with it.

The ghost of Cafe Robert.

The poor postman...

Last Avignon picture shows Joseph posing in a street with the largest number of drainage/manhole covers I have ever seen. This was possibly the single most memorable thing I saw in Avignon.