We now enter MERRINEUM - that vague numberless stretch between Christmas and New Year measured by naps, novels, cricket & leftovers

YULE HOLE - the extra hole you need to widen your belt after Christmas

May the inventor of autocorrect burn in he'll

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

CHRISTMAS! (Palindrome) Noël. I’m still. I fog, risen. I, with gift, nod. I don’t fight.... I wine! Sir — go fill it. Smile on.

Merry X from Larry & his extended family

Asthma & Berocca

When the couple upstairs stop shouting but you want to hear the end of the argument

My new newsletter contains more than FIFTY Words of the Year from around the world. Those won't be the final hashtag#WotY2025, but it is the final newsletter of the year! lynneguist.substack.com/p/2025-words...

shell-shock? grovulation?

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

I like my bifocals like I like my politics - Indoor Progressive

Strain-deer (Balmain)

I’ve done some things in my past that I find difficult to talk about for example there was the time I picked a peck of pickled pepper.

Bodyline series

“Be sure to set me to ‘delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”

The Christmas comeback we need this year

Very rare shot of the Arctic Platypus

What idiot called that little narc Elf on the Shelf and not Police Navidad?

Grinch: “More like gold, frankincense and meh.”

Five more phrases for when annoyed with someone: 5. You’re filling up my bag (Brazilian Portuguese) 4. You’re turning me into the big goat (Mexican Spanish) 3. You’re making my bees rise (French) 2. You’re breaking my chestnuts (Italian) 1. You’re prying open the lid of the slap-crate (Hungarian)

Roses are blue Violets are red Or that’s what ChatGPT just said

let the slopaganda begin

So disappointing. I thought this Sydney ferry was going to Legoland. Turns out the PA system said Meadowbank

The Geneva convention is very clear about torture but surprisingly silent about group chats

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

So it’s NOT my imagination

I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises

Shot a salted seabird. The albatross is dead. #anagrams

And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”

ever day I be like

just got a job as a disgruntled employee

Here are three attempts by the newly released ChatGPT 5.2 to write a cryptic clue for MARMALADE. Jam made from a ram’s tail end? (9) Spread from fruit, mostly orange, made at home (9) Sweet preserve made when a dram’s ale is mixed (9) We're still safe... for now CC @dontattempt.bsky.social

Annual dog on Murray photo

♫ 12 drummers drumming ♫ 11 pipers piping ♫ 10 lords a-leaping ♫ 9 ladies dancing ♫ 8 maids a-milking ♫ 7 swans a-swimming ♫ 6 geese a-laying ♫

Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.

Please join my campaign to change the past tense of “sneeze” to “snoze”.

Ducks in a row? Check Cats in a herd? Still on it

*Pronounces alpha male like tamale

I'm from a little town called Bethlehem, you've probably never harked of it

ME [arriving for my eye exam]: is this the right place GUY BEHIND THE DELI COUNTER: no

Any non-standard item you use INSTEAD of a toothpick to dig out leftover food is called DENTAL FLOTSAM

Heard a fabulous malaprop this week: The Shrine Of Resemblance (beware of imitations)

Just wanted to say good evening to all the steamroller drivers out there.

Long story short, once upon the end

When you're super into lute solos