A squirrel urging me not to obey a Do Not Feed The Squirrels sign on Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow, although given the warning below it, I resisted! The sign isn't an official one, but was created by A Sign of Humour. #glasgow #kelvingrovepark #sign #glasgowhumour #squirrel #squirrels

To give an idea of how damaging this change is, a typical dual fuel household will see their bill rise by £2.50 in January. A household using an electric storage heater - already most at risk of fuel poverty - will see a £100 increase. That is deeply unfair and needs to be addressed

Differences like this are why I list American English and British English separately under "languages I proofread/copyedit"

Both my grandads served in India but would still have given a proper kicking (after taking into account local/religious sensibilities); FIL - who was RAF ground crew in 1944 - would have gone straight to the kicking (as would all my great-uncles who served in Europe in various guises)!

England cricket fans at 6am England cricket fans at 9.45am

We're doing mvt 5 while seated; my neighbour can't see Sophie even when she's standing up because of the bass drum (sorry Soph!) 🤣 It's sounding AMAZING - if you can get to Liverpool for tomorrow evening, tickets still available. + two pieces of Pärt for his 90th birthday year.

It's clearly disprovable by the fact that pre 2014, married persons who received a GRA needed to have their marriage dissolved ~because two women/men couldn't possibly be married~ (I think it worked the other way too, ie if one of a Civil Partnered couple got a GRA they could no longer have a CP).

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance." No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy place! Brahms Requiem tomorrow evening, with Domingo Hindoyan, Sophie Bevan and Samuel Hasselhorn 🎶

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance

Almost time to pull out Holiday Lights v2 (1995)

Only one more month until we discover if the issue is that 'The War Between The Land And The Sea' is a) too leftwing for Disney in 2025 b) too bad or c) both.

Instead of Secret Santa, we're doing something similar but for colleagues' kids this year. I've been paired with a chap who always speaks over me. I'm getting his kids glitter and glue. I hope they love it.

Hark! the Season approaches! As we approach The Season, a reminder of the rules of the two games available. #HARKAGEDDON #HARKHUNTER

Rideable miniature railway in the middle of Hyde Park where all the trains are tube trains and it models the tube map exactly.

Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete Under future rules Renew status? 1995, 98 x6 Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012) Citizenship 2013 news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...

A book hunting, beer drinking kind of weekend (Sedbergh - Wigtown - Carlisle) #BeersWithoutBorders #WestWallsBrewingCo

This is great fun - filled an evening :-)

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

Are you still preparing your Advent Carol Service? Looking for something with a bit more joy? #CursedCarols

It is mental that civil servants can't accept a fruit basket but MPs can receive gifts of under £300 and not declare them

This actually happened to a (Sikh) friend of mine c1997 (in one of the more prosperous suburbs of Glasgow, too!) 🤦

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Just raise income tax! Basic and higher rates! And if you want to minimise salary sacrifice/pension dumping, bring down the 45p band to £80/90k and scrap the personal allowance withdrawal. It’ll raise more and might even be popular.

The clever thing about going for stuff like the cycle for work scheme is it’s really noticeable, affects people with lots of media access and platforms, annoys green groups, and raises almost no revenue at the same time. Real win/win/win there.

A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...

Entertaining myself with the definition of 'pet' being inserted by the Renters Rights Act 2025. Probably should add: '(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise' to cover most cats

Oh ffs, this is just stupid and lazy. Not a trace of real interest in showing how knitting works. Everyone's being let down by #Gameofwool, even Tom Daley. I'm very disappointed in the judges not insisting on better. Surprised no-one jumped ship when they realised quite how rubbish it really is.

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

We've found a solution to the argument over whether to sing Holst or Darke's arrangement of In The Bleak Midwinter. You're not going to like it, though. #CursedCarols

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

'British Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for “future generations” as data reveals half the British public don’t know that Indian members of the armed forces served in the second world war.' 1/2

Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Droooooooool!

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

At 34 years older than the RNLI, it arguably operates the oldest continuing lifeboat service in the world. #glasgow #glasgowhumanesociety #emblems #glasgowgreen #watersafety #riverclyde #theclyde #glasgowhistory

Emblem of the Glasgw Humane Society on its headquarters on Glasgow Green. Founded in 1790, by members of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Glasgow Humane Society aims to preserve human life in and around the waterways of Greater Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

From that angle, it looks like they're...well, it doesn't look like a British salute, put it that way.

They should have advertised who everyone was playing for, throughout. Popped it under their names everytime they were in the diary room. The opportunity for tens and tens and tens of millions of pounds of free advertising for charities, totally wasted #CelebrityTraitors

BOLLOCKS #CelebrityTraitors

Behold! Well, the sea's quite a long way out, and you can't see Snowdonia or Blackpool like you can on the best days, but I do love Crosby beach for a stomp ❤️

So far it reminds me of the joke about the very long German speech in which the translator sits in silence, saying nothing. When asked why, they reply “I’m waiting for the verb”. This is an *awful* lot of throat-clearing.

The European Convention on Human Rights turns 75 today! Respect for human rights is one of the founding values of the European Union and a fundamental aspect of its external relations. Find out how the EU protects and promotes human rights worldwide ➡️ link.europa.eu/yYBWXB

Been experiencing achy eyes since the summer, when I started anxiety meds. I have to take my glasses off to relieve the ache, but that does not make my screen more in focus (to the contrary it's always blurrier). Coincidence or correlation? Sigh.

I was a little bored earlier. ⚓️✝️

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC