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It's not all that spoken in the US either, at least not the part I'm from!

Today, I'll start getting busy again on here. That's likely to mean, among other things, I'll be telling you all about groovy new books we'll be getting, in the hope you'll buy them. It's also #buyastrangerabook day, so that should be fun! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Box in the house cat in the box. Rules are rules.

This also reminds me to suggest you go onto YouTube to to glory in Kenneth Williams singing his ditty of the same name youtu.be/6MbZjzIg5w8

Day 4 By the book. When a hole made by a previous piece creates space for a new one.

Curiosity getting the better of me so I've booked in to The Odyssey in ten days' time -- by which point you'll all have seen it and will have told me how rubbish/wonderful it is. Seeing it in 70mm.

Actually flawless.

Not quite makeup sex, but there is purring so I hope we have a better day together today.

Playing with the new glue sticks last night. Odd consistency but I think I can get the hang of it soon #collage

Feigning innocence flaked out on my lap.

Face of a demon (she’s been a dick all day).

The sun is shining.

Would suit my living room perfectly. Love it.

I wish I understood why Madonna’s artificial face disturbs me as much as it does when I am a proud lifelong stan of Cher. My brain’s got a mind of its own.

Newington peeps interested in the TooGood To Go app to get cheap food: as an experiment I spent £2.49 at Fruit Connection, where at the best of times full price stuff is rotting. They filled my bag enormously. Yes, some went right into my bin as hopeless. But so much usable stuff left!

Me, accidentally auditioning for the role of the wee girl in Despicable Me. And yes I am feeling a chill. It’s not easy being a reptile.

By the book Day 3.

Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill

Sam Neill also co-directed (with Judy Rymer) this great film about NZ cinema

Intrigued that the minute I heard about Sam Neill’s death my brain delivered a Safe to Love earworm. Just those words on repeat sung by Mr Ferry. (Versus a certain catchy tune from Wizard of Oz which my brain delivered a few days ago.) #UnchaperonedBrainAdventures

Sam Neill on keeping the darkness at bay. Particularly moving today, of course. What a loss he is.

Wow. A collection of book synopses prepared for Elstree Studios in the 1940s-1970s! heyzine.com/flip-book/4d...

Yesterday I mentioned to a shop assistant that I remembered paying for things by check. “I have never written a check,” was her wide-eyed response.

The folds of this tea gown hang perfectly at either hip in a series of ever increasing drapes. I can’t help thinking that whoever wore this ensemble had no problem with the concept of relaxing at home in a drift of lavender silk. 1910-15 @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Asking for a planet.

Remembering that when I worked in publishing I covered the entire partition separating my desk from a corridor with pictures. No less a Literary Luminary than Andre Dubus told me it looked like a teenager’s bedroom. Given his LL status and my youth, I refrained from telling him to eff off.

Harmony https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19467

an anonymous response to Lindsay Graham's death= "It’s like we got sent a free appetizer because our entrees were taking a long time.”

Not as costly as Tulip Fever but charity shop picture book bargains feed my Collage Madness.

I want to get my act together to go out but *someone* has made herself comfortable on my lap. At least that’s my excuse.

Reposting for my vinyl fan friends.

Today’s By the book.

Would wear.

Saturday on the human sofa.

Hero.

Caturday

If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

I read a NYT Modern Love column this morning in which an anxiety-ridden woman was advised by her THERAPIST to, post dinner date, invite the man back to her flat and give him a bowl of carrots. I am an intelligent woman but remain baffled. Maybe I dreamed it.

Photographer & filmmaker Chris Leslie is exhibiting Clyde Reflections at the Briggait, Glasgow throughout #Watershed Chris is discussing his work on Saturday 25th July www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clyde-refl... Free! All Welcome! #WhoOwnstheClyde #TheEmpireCafe #CommonwealthGames #MerchantCityFestival

Day 1 making a wee book-o-collages, one a day in theory. To savour or sell. Who knows. Here goes. Keeps me off the streets.

Two new arrivals have made it just in time for Capybara Appreciation Day! 👀 We're so, so, SO pleased to share that Bart and Mildred have welcomed two pups, which is a huge first for us at the park 🎉

I’m no expert on The Bible but aren’t burning bushes significant?

Embroidering the Earth's mantle https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19539

My date is a cutie. Keeping my lap warm.

Keep seeing cats and dogs who learn to press buttons to “talk” to their humans. And I am tempted because Smudge can baffle me at times. But I am also worried about what she might say!

Also from the charity shop, a frame that’s perfect for one of my collages. And a Band of Gold earworm.

It’s decades out of date but will get my education started.