This is what our neighbourhood communities should look like - well, apart from the fact that voluntary food kitchens for the poor shouldn't be necessary in one of the richest countries in the world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It’s the first day of the holidays aaaaand ... husband and son have been struck down by la dreaded gastro! Fun times! Expecting me and daughter to fall victim within 24 hours 😬

It's apéro o'clock!

Chatting at art class and a lady was saying that her granddaughter married an English guy. She then said she'd discovered that English food is actually GOOD 🥹 "Et j'adore le fameux crapaud dans le trou!" 😂

Woohoo Didymium spongiosum aka the beautifully evocative DOG SICK SLIME MOULD 🍄🤩

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

Doesn’t get much better than this 🤩

The out of office is set! 🥳

I have a tight deadline today and, of course, I didn't sleep well because of it. But the toast just jumped out of the toaster and onto the plate I had ready for it, so I'm choosing to see that as a good omen.

Sounds about right.

Made three metres of sausage today

A watercolour I did of a good boy.

Went out for sushi and daughter got so full that son offered to carry her home 😂

A watercolour I did of a good boy.

My tinnitus is being extra noisy today. I was telling my 11yo, and apparently he has it too. Sorry, son.

"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages. We’re not mops. We’re translators." #translation #xl8 www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-l...

I love living in France and there are very few things I genuinely miss from where I grew up, but it popped into my head today while I was out how much I'd kill for a jacket potato from one of the Victorian ovens you get in town centres in the Midlands 😩🥔

So apt! 🤣

Anyone else watching the Nobel Prize Committee's Goal of the Month competition live from Oslo on BBC2?

Poor Dylan 🥺

We always joke that our kids have TARDIS appetites. Time and Relative Digestion in Stomach.

Enjoying some warm glögg sent from my lovely friend @andreasthlm1.bsky.social. Feeling very festive 🎄

I love how varied and colourful fungus can be! 🍄

I feel this with every atom of my body. youtu.be/T5s2OTqDiyo?...

Very very ready for wine.

I always find it funny to see the weird stuff that sets some people off online. The other day I saw a guy getting really mad at people who eat boiled eggs in the shell because THEY ARE JUST TOO LAZY TO PEEL THE EGG AND ANYWAY IF IT'S TOO HOT TO PEEL PUT IT IN COLD WATER IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE 😁

Husband is back from working in Würzburg. He brought a couple of bottles of local wine and these beer mats as a souvenir because "they sound like what people used to call you when we lived in Germany and it made me laugh" 😂

Well, that ramped up quickly. #Thanksgiving

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop" The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"

Pretty sky this evening 🤩

Emerged from my cocoon this morning to find that 11yo had already been reading for two hours. He's very much caught the reading bug 😁

WINE

Frosty out today 🥶🍄

France is one of the few remaining countries to provide its potholes with the appropriate training prior to deployment.

Buying a kettle in 1990: go to shop. Pick one of the five available kettles. Buying a kettle now: infinite kettles are available. Do you want one that glows? Do you want one that sings lullabies? This one can do your shopping for you! Just keep scrolling. The perfect kettle will appear eventually.

Excellent piece by a survivor of the Sarajevo snipers who Britain took in as a child refugee.

All the cars in town are noticeably orange this morning because of Sahara dust 😂

Paint me like one of your French dogs #MontyTheSpringer

Ha just remembered the kids used to say "space château" instead of space shuttle 😂

WEEKEND. *sets out-of-office and runs away*

Bank holiday today because it's Armistice Day. No merch on sale because we don't celebrate War Christmas here, we have a ceremony in town to remember the fallen. As it should be.

The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump. Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

Got bored. Meet Duckter Who.

Finished my latest #pastel in #art class 🎨

So ready for the weekend 🥱

Finished my latest #pastel in #art class 🎨