I've had to pull the car over to let you all know I've just spotted a van advertising a doggy day care centre in Norwich called... Scent-a-Barks. SCENT-A-BARKS

We need to start rebuilding our own internet again. Long live weird blogs and janky personal sites.

The Daily Star have bought another lettuce 👀

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Surely they've suffered enough?

Dads holding hands with their sons around Europe, www.poshtarov.net observer.co.uk/culture/phot...

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be?

Villain, I have done thy mother.

There's something morbidly beautiful and hopeful about disused railway tracks surrounded and covered in vegetation, especially if there's also a rusty old train or carriage. Like nature is just waiting for us to go away so it can just grow.

Do this! I suspect most of the new reform councillors, and particularly those in control of councils, have imagined themselves living it up, lording it over enemies, firing woke snowflakes and becoming local celebrities. They’ll hate the reality of thankless work, endless complaints, and scrutiny.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

New in Shop - Gone Fishing (also known as Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me) Did I design 18 different toe beans for this pattern so people can stitch their cats? Yes. Yes I did. badstitched.etsy.com/listing/4500... #CrossStitch #StitchSky #FiberArts

A touch more detailing..

I'm getting worse 🤦‍♀️ www.maptap.gg May 7 93🏆 98🔥 81🌟 93🏆 89🎉 Final score: 899

Literally the best email I've ever received. No notes.

Recipes don't need to say an ingredient is "optional". Everything in recipes is optional! I can skip all the ingredients and just order a pizza.

In retrospect it MAY have been much more effective to talk about climate change less in terms of temperatures and more in terms of INVASIVE AND DISEASE-CARRYING BLOOD PARASITES THAT YOU NOW HAVE TO DEAL WITH FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Pretty decent score today. www.maptap.gg May 6 100🎯 98🔥 98🎯 99🎯 94🏅 Final score: 973

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Not a great score today 😩 www.maptap.gg May 5 93🏆 98🎯 91🏆 72😂 83😁 Final score: 838

Well, I’m at the village fair and the first thing I have seen is this memorial bench to The Prodigy’s Keith Flint (genuinely) in the churchyard. Apparently there has been local controversy. The vicar has vigorously defended it.

The effects of our policies are so bad that we promise not to put them in your constituency is certainly an interesting campaign message

Made a super quick card to thank my neighbour for a favour today. First use of the Flipping Massive piece of fuschia Aida that I accidentally bought. #crossStitch #crafts

Tesco, emailing me this terrifying motherfucker to me on a Sunday morning is an act of war, what the fuck, no I will not meet Plumbert I will destroy Plumbert

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.

Did not do well on the final place 😅 www.maptap.gg May 2 91🏆 96🔥 88🎉 95🏅 50🫣 Final score: 798

We could save quite a lot of arguments if people would just acknowledge the basic truth that all of mainland Britain is The South. Amply evidenced by the fact that the first area you encounter when cross over from Orkney is called Sutherland.

*googling* are dark elves from gothlórien

Quick sketch..

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

My latest #WIP is coming together. Every season is spooky season, right? #CrossStitch

We have a similar example of a curt response to proposed legal action across the pond. About the same timeframe. Lawyers used to be built differently.

RIP, time-traveling Marten. You tried to save us all from our future.

I have bought a flipping massive piece of fuschia coloured Aida. The colour is divine but I did not realise it was quite so BIG. Not sure what I'll do with it yet. Since I prefer smaller projects it's going to last for years... 🤦‍♀️😂 #CrossStitch #Aida

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

‘Odyssey’ Oil and acrylic on canvas (90 x 120cm)

My next painting will be something resembling this..

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Happy 56th anniversary, this unimprovable newspaper headline

Made a small piece as a test using one strand on 18 count. I like how the crosses are so neat. #CrossStitch

Isle of Harris

Good morning! Here is a three-day old sea-otter pup, snoozing on their Mama. The image is by one my favourite wildlife photographers, Suzi Eszterhas, who runs girlswhoclick.org - an organisation that mentors girls and young women interested in nature photography. Feel free to share.

Cette carte fantastique des 800 (huit cent!!) châteaux d'Écosse : scottishcastles.xyz c'est une carte interactive de @z3z.co.uk 🤩 bravo

A very special Happy Earth Day to everyone posting AI generated "happy earth day" graphics. Amazing job. You definitely get it.

Oh my god it finally happened!! 🥳 Wordle 1,768 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle

Half of all the world's bluebells are in the UK. I can't imagine living in a country where the woods don't turn into this every spring.

A reminder that we did this. (And had to pay Mirror Group Newspapers for the copyright of the text, one of the finest rights payments I’ve ever approved.)

walkable cities strongly encourage a feeling of imagined community that helps make you a good citizen. if you experience the city only in slices it's easier to see large swathes of it as fundamentally alien or hostile.