Land of cork and glory.

FERRULE BRITANNIA 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 @goakl.bsky.social on manoeuvres heading to France ⚜️🇫🇷⚜️

Youngest just secured a top job at a quantum computing outfit, so both kids are gainfully employed! Feel like Mrs Bennet in P&P when she marries off 2 of her 5 daughters in one day. "Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Ms Miller got rid of her two most deserving offspring" 💪🏻👍🏻

REVIEW: After a boring 1st episode King & Conqueror nailed it. Daring historical inaccuracies! 🛡️Shield walls! 🏹Archers! Battle warp spasms! The final episode (me rooting for Harold 😂) was like watching the certain failure of England in a World Cup final vs France ⚽️ HAROLD REX INTERFECTUS EST, indeed

Spoiler alert 🚨 Just watched the end of blockbuster series King & Conqueror on iPlayer. Harold dies FFS. Devastated.

I'm not sure about the series #KingandConqueror. No one had teeth like that in those days 🙄🦷🦷🦷

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Weird spider bowl. Quick photo. Didn't stop around to meet the inhabitant! 🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️

The Canal+/Disney+/BBC drama series Marie Antoinette is quite a jolly affair. Plenty of dramatic licence taken, silly in places & everyone has fantastic teeth. But this screengrab of London circa 1780 is a major disappointment, given construction of the Palace of Westminster started around 1840 😂

First red rose of the year 🌹♥️

French loggers in action. All very Hockney

Somehow seeing it in physical form makes it real. Very grateful to @eldrclaire.bsky.social for making this happen.

Who else is getting post-Covid-Netflix-amnesia? Can't remember what we've seen!!! Everything looking hauntingly familiar! 😂 @goakl.bsky.social

What interesting shoes 😈😂

Trump's a cheeseburger eating surrender monkey. #Ukraine

Bravi to all the #Grammys attendees for leaving the house in those outfits. Sierra Farrell's Little-Bo-Peep-meets-the-Pope confection (is that a lantern? a thurible?), is so bad it wins the outfit of the night category. There's meaning in it somewhere, but that meaning is currently evading capture.

Tallis Scholars superb last night at St Martin in the Fields: works by #Palestrina (composing 500 years ago) and living Estonian composer #ArvoPärt Chandelier straight out of the interior design book of Giovanni Arnolfini 😉

Never been more pleased to get rid of a failing pop-up bath plug with its spinning dial that refuses point blank to tightened up whatever you do to that infernal screw. I am now back to a plug-on-a-chain. Tell me I'm right? 🙏🏻🛁🫧

Witness for the Prosecution with @goakl.bsky.social

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

What the hell is this piece of spooky French road art about? Deep in Deux-Sèvres... 😂🔥🧙‍♀️

Youngest grandchild has a mystery present. Nobody knows what it could possibly be.

First fire of the dying year 🔥🧡🔥

This is the best photo EVER to accompany a post about the unfortunate 3rd wife of Henry VIII. This has to be an AI generated horror? 🤣. OR MAYBE NOT? Reminds me of a time on BBC Breakfast News in the 1990s when the Editors wanted a map of Darwin in Oz and a mugshot of Charles popped up on screen 😂

Not a recognised crisis-comms response, it must be said.

Nothing better than... freshly laundered sheets. Ageless joy. Nothing worse than... "visibly over 25" at the cash till. Even at my age!!!

Elon Musk has emailed! 😂🤣🤣 He's getting into electricity saving tips. Who knew? Oh "Elon", you're such a twat 🔥😘

This is an *amazing* story, excellently researched and well-writen. Do read!

Today’s poem is called ‘Brie Encounter’. Sorry about this one.

much love for the 'don't know' crew who must be wondering what that tree is doing in their living room

Who else is scared of tomatoes? 🍅🕷️🍅

Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical! 🦊 Oxford - 🎞️ from: @EleonoraSberg

This is really getting quite remarkable • BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀 • Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up And the next chart is particularly notable...

Mum can you come and pick me up the sandwiches are being woke again

Culture wars! Perfumed gloves! Olives, capers, watermelons! Multilingual street brawls! A disappointed father! The politics of trousers! Actual swordfights!

The Times: Starmer wants to build new rapport with China #TomorrowsPapersToday

The Guardian: Thames Water repairs crisis leaves supply ‘on knife-edge’ #TomorrowsPapersToday

i: Move as close as possible to EU in Brexit reset, business bosses urge Starmer #TomorrowsPapersToday

We’re continuing to test out #TomorrowsPapersToday over here this Sunday evening - please do follow @sgfmann.bsky.social for your look at the front pages..

More #tomorrowspaperstoday goodness from @sgfmann.bsky.social here on #Bluesky tonight 💪🏻👍🏻

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Feeling the pressure of ‘I’m new here, I’m curating a feed, what shall I post that will really represent who I am….’ Literally, all I’ve got is a picture of my kitten. She’s damn cute though.

Can we take a moment to admire the extraordinary attention to detail in the costuming for #WolfHall from the incredible designer Joanna Eatwell? A flawless interpretation of Jane Seymour’s bonnet and gown from the Whitehall Mural 🙌

Sundays’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Having people over to stare at their phones later if you want to come by…

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer. Morning.

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The thing about Twitter versus Bluesky is that the right needs liberals on Twitter to make it feel worthwhile, whereas the left doesn’t need conservatives on Bluesky to make it feel worthwhile.

When did retail assistants become so rude? Just bought a Xmas tree and the shop assistant said to me “will you be putting that up yourself?” I replied “err no, I will be putting it up in my living room”