Li Xian is just so charming.

There is a breeze! It’s cooler outside! I’ve thrown all the windows open!!

I have purchased a desktop fan that really punches above its weight, oscillates in both directions and has a timer function and now I am about to go to sleep bathed in a cool breeze.

As unionised workers labour in 40 degree heat, two trade unions want to block Miliband from HMT because they like oil & gas and not “his relentless focus on the net zero agenda.” Give me strength 🤦‍♀️ www.ft.com/content/7441...

Currently reminding myself it’s better to be inside in my warm and stuffy flat with a cool flannel on my neck than outside in 32 degree heat and high UV and humidity.

Past nine, still 27 degrees, at what point can we legalise setting fire to climate change deniers

Can’t believe the PM stole my thunder on today, the day of my daughter’s wedd - wait, no, my birthday.

Planning a city break with a friend and they’ve just sent me an itinerary for sightseeing made by AI. Totally ruined the best part of planning a trip, researching what to see and do.

I really wish I could speak at least some Korean, I feel like I would absolutely smash Sober by Big Bang at karaoke but alas, I cannot make the words 😂

My dad asking me who all these people are on the 1977 TOTP episode like I was even alive then 😂

Scritti Politti alert in Friday TOTP 🚨 @rhodri.biz

Today in entertainment news

I've been saying I'd do it for years, but finally,

Delighted that Habs captain Nick Suzuki won the Selke, thinking of my lovely friend @evaine.bsky.social and how delighted I know she would be!

The cast in Office Romance is OUTSTANDING lads.

Anyways all of Stargate SG-1 is currently on Netflix UK, have at lads.

Honestly I think they mean ‘a shit too many lady fans’

Give what happened when Mallozzi et al said their target audience for SGU was young men and not the women and queers who’d kept the franchise afloat for so long, this is so unsurprising

lmao not McGill hitting up the alumni with their minor Heated Rivalry mention archiveofourown.org/works/810294...

If anyone is wondering how it is out there in the Dating Over 40 trenches, in the last month two men have cancelled a first date due to a “childcare emergency” and then ghosted me, one didn’t even bother to cancel just deleted his account.

One of the things I’m enjoying the most about A Splendid Match #cdrama is how the most perceptive, sensible person is the Emperor, who is about 12 😂

For the skincare girlies (of all and no genders), French pharmacy brand Mixa is now available in Superdrug and their niacinamide body lotion in the yellow tub is just the absolute business.

Any of my older fan friends, does anyone know the fan mrspotatohead or how I could contact her?

I’m having a real Phase with Ci Sha at the moment and all of these photos from A Splendid Match are absolutely s e n d i n g me 🤩

Oh dear. A man on Bumble, in response to me talking about The Goblin Emperor and how I enjoy court intrigue, chose to respond by saying “I assume by court intrigue you mean romantasy smut?” Oh DEAR.

she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol

It’s 13:30 and I’ve meal prepped breakfasts and lunches for work this week, dusted, hoovered and mopped my flat (with the fancy M&S floor cleaner) and had a bath. Now the whole afternoon and the whole of the city is in front of me and I want to do absolutely nothing 😂

What an absolute queen.

My top #cdrama by year 2015 Nirvana in Fire 2016 Princess Weiyoung (slow year imho) 2017 Eternal Love 2018 Minglan (special mention Ruyi) 2019 The Untamed 2020 Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty 2021 Rebel Princess 2022 Love Like the Galaxy 2023 Legend of Zhuohua 2024 ShenLiiiiiii 2025 Dream Within a Dream

It’s been a really tough time recently, but things got a little better this week with some much needed positive news and I am out of my reading slump, if the way I’ve inhaled three Cara Bastone novels in five days is any any indication.

Wait you guys can read

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

oh is Starmer banging on about steel again

The Onion ass headline

Things are unbelievably crap at the moment. What’s bringing you joy, and what do you recommend I try to bring me a mere spark of joy? Need a bit of inspiration here, lads.

i see the vision, hudson

🎵 Da da da da daaaaaa 🎵

Kind of offended by La Winkle’s assertion that people who are into astrology etc are “thick”, what with my two degrees and three additional languages spoken (admittedly to varying levels) in addition to English 😂

I am in absolute stitches watching Dan Levy’s consternation on La Winkle’s that show as Josh Widdecombe, Phil Dunster and Cush Jumbo try to explain the concept of Mr Blobby to him in only the way elder millennials who grew up watching Noel’s House Party possibly can 😂😂

This was easily the most thrilling and exciting film I’ve seen in ages. Stuffed full of martial arts and stunts, great acting, laughs and tears. I was the only person there under 50 and the only one who wasn’t Asian 😂

Heated Chivalry

Any #cdrama fans in the UK and Ireland, do check cinema listings this weekend as the wuxia film Blades of the Guardians is actually getting a cinema release! Meanwhile, still waiting for Hidden Blade to be available here 😞

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wisner is being made into a TV series!! We love to see it 🤩

X this evening vs Bsky this evening

A forever fave and comfort rewatch. What a cast.

Well DONE, Hungary!

Watching #PerfectCrown #kdrama episode one, is it just me or are chunks of it not subbed??

I'm sorry I said you weren't very scary.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.