🤮🤬 #wimbledon

Well if it’s that good … (Rifles through the back of the cupboard for lentils I *know* I have somewhere …)

Marie's (@reesiepie.bsky.social) review of Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song – Raindance Film Fest (2026) A long title for a gently inquisitive film, as a ten-year-old girl comes to terms with life, death and trust. ... https://wp.me/p9Bqpo-5Kc

Just dropping this here in case it helps anyone. Was a guest on BBC radio yesterday talking about my experience with womb cancer - it’s Womb Cancer Awareness Month and I just want people who have a womb to be more aware of what’s unusual for them. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Marie (@reesiepie.bsky.social) reviews Summer School 2001 – Raindance Film Festival 2026 An intriguing and revealing story about family and male role models from the point of view of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Czechia.... https://wp.me/p9Bqpo-5Jm

Marie (@reesiepie.bsky.social) reivews Nameless – Raindance Film Festival 2026 A bizarre crime, in broad daylight, with no obvious motive opens Nameless, and the hunt for the violent, unknown assailant begins.... https://wp.me/p9Bqpo-5Jh

What a shocking, inhumane response to a child’s death. There should be no ‘but’ here at all. If the only option a parent can see is to steal to look after a child, then society has failed abominably. And nobody deserves to die for want of a few nappies. Shame on you and your ‘but’.

As a nation, I find we treat our young people appallingly. That includes imposing a curfew on social media (for many its a social lifeline) while not imposing regulation on the extremely damaging content it serves up. Young people punished. Tech giants off the hook - again.

Romanian forms its '-teen' numbers by means of the element -sprezece, from unsprezece (11) to nouăsprezece (19). This construction is very distinctive among Romance languages, and -sprezece may look opaque, but its origin is enjoyably simple: super decem 'above ten' in Latin.

Curaçao's first World Cup goal in the history of the nation, scored by Livano Comenencia! Call by Andres Cantor on the Telemundo broadcast

Marie's (@reesiepie.bsky.social) Film Review: Strictly Ballroom (1992) Remember when people hadn’t heard of Baz Luhrmann? His very first feature film Strictly Ballroom makes an entrance in fab-u-lous 4K this month, and it is an absolute delight!... https://wp.me/p9Bqpo-5I4

FIFA has now confirmed that Artan will no longer be able to officiate at the World Cup, which like for players, is the biggest moment in the lives of referees. FIFA has said it is nothing to do with them, but a decision made by US authorities and that the decision is not likely to be changed.

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

Hearing FIFA has cancelled Iran's ticket allocation (eight percent of venue capacity) for the World Cup.

Marie's (@reesiepie.bsky.social) Film Review: Memorizu (2026) out of Tribeca A touching and very human debut feature from Japanese writer/director Miiku Sakanishi on connection with others and how (and why) we capture memories to preserve moments in time.... https://wp.me/p9Bqpo-5HR

Because it was time to address the dark clouds overhead at #RolandGarros: I wrote about how Alexander Zverev is almost certainly going to win the French Open, and how people around the sport are feeling about that likelihood. Read here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/alexander-...

Marie's (@reesiepie.bsky.social) Film Review: Köln 75 (2026) A German teenager unexpectedly organises one of the greatest jazz events of all time, involving Miles Davis’ keyboard player and a gang of her friends.... https://wp.me/p9Bqpo-5HI

Right now I don’t give a flying f*** what this shill has to say about anything. This podcast is my daily ‘preparing my dinner’ listening but this was giving me indigestion. Switched off after 4 minutes.

RTFT

Wait, he’s done what now?

Remembering the late, great Eric Morecambe, who was born 100 Years ago today.

Starmer should just do a straight immediate swap of Streeting for Rayner at Health, and then just get on with his day.

Dear Mr Starmer Join the EU, now Sack Streeting & get Palantir out of our NHS Get Palantir out of all contracts Bring water & power into public ownership Sack Mahmood Bring Andy Burham into Govt Work with Unions Support the least well off Tax the rich Give women their rightful pensions And listen

I must see this as ASAP as possible.

A direct letter from @drtedros.who.int to the people of Tenerife, Canary Islands in light of the MV Hondius’ arrival. This is thoughtful and compassionate, and correctly describes the legal framework, but more importantly the solidarity that underpins it.

You are under NO obligation to give any information to people hanging around polling booths.

Is this worse than Liz the Lettuce?🥬

Sogar Rosenkohl!?

When I was teaching, I would often have a swig of Pinot between appointments at parents evenings after teaching all day. Not. Unless you’ve clocked off, drinking while on work premises should be a no-no.

Now up to 11 great-great-grandparents! #1926Census

Just spent hours going down various rabbit holes on the #1926Census and cross referencing 1901 and 1911, and I have now found all 8 great-grandparents and 7 great-great-grandparents. It’s addictive!

When Labour inevitably gets humiliated at the local elections they will have nobody to blame but themselves. They have massively alienated a lot of core voters by chasing Reform with ever more hostile policies against migrants and other marginalised groups.

Fun facts to know and tell: The East German railway system (bizarrely still called the Reichsbahn, to preserve its rights in West Berlin) ran dining cars on its City Express services that were all refurbished pre-WWII Mitropa cars, right up until reunification. You can see one at Berlin-Lichtenberg.

Postwar Berlin's "rubble women" (Trümmerfrauen) were able-bodied women between 15 and 65 who were conscripted to remove the bombing debris from the city's streets. They were paid a daily rate of 12 Reichsmarks per thousand bricks (how this was counted who knows), and got a Tier 2 Soviet ration card.

Spelling ‘daughter’ like that is not helping my stuttering attempts to learn gaeilge!

Oh this is fab news. I love Barbara and haven’t seen it in ages. Nina Hoss is just the best. Saw her live on stage at Manchester International Festival a while ago - breathtaking.

Have just found all 4 of my grandparents thanks to this! One surname was written incorrectly by census taker (has been transcribed as it looks, can’t blame the transcriber) so took a bit of family history knowledge and searching a cousin to find it. What an amazing sense of connection to the past!

Update: currently travelling from Krakow to Warsaw with Regiojet. Their business class complementary coffee/prosecco/food menu is unavailable “due to operational issues” (this notification just one hour before departure). On the other hand, I’ve had a four seat compartment all to myself.

Sitting in a Polish hotel room (as you do) and the only non-Polish tv channel is CNN. So I’ve found Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds on a Polish channel for a rewatch. Not understanding the dialogue is definitely focusing me in on the quality of the cinematography, which I overlooked first time.

Nochmal Niels Bohrmann bei #Tatort? Das dritte Mal dass ich ihn in einem Monat gesehen habe.

One of those rare occasions wo ich eigentlich in Deutschland bin fürs #Tatort schauen . Los geht’s!

War auch mal an der Zeit. Ich hoffe, Frau Eta macht eine so gute Arbeit als Trainerin, dass sie nächstes Jahr auch weiterhin im Männer-Profifußball Cheftrainerin bleibt. www.sportschau.de/regional/rbb...

Why can’t this man be in charge of everything? I currently find myself jealous of New Yorkers.

Oops. Am supposed to be travelling with them next week - hope they don’t just give up early 😬

Related: I have been keen to work my way through Delivery Plans and Project Management templates changing "DO" to "DOR," all the way through in the "Responsible Person" column, because the "O" and the "Reilly" ARE DIFFERENT WORDS! "But it makes the layout less tidy.* "DON'T CARE. IT'S MY NAME."

Always coming up against the ‘unacceptable character’ issue when booking online, and found this really interesting youtu.be/0f3RMYTCvMU?...

Marie's / @reesiepie.bsky.social coverage of the Manchester film festival 2026 comes to a close w/ Eagles of the Republic - a beloved actor is pressured into taking on a role he doesn’t want to – as the… https://themovieisle.com/2026/04/01/eagles-of-the-republic-manchester-film-festival-2026/

Marie's / @reesiepie.bsky.social coverage of the Manchester Film Festival 2026 continutes with L’étranger – The Stranger: Indifference, colonialism, a murder trial, and a lot of sunshine in François Ozon’s black and… https://themovieisle.com/2026/03/31/the-stranger-manchester-film-festival-2026/

Marie's / @reesiepie.bsky.social coverage of the Manchester Film Festival 2026 continues with the tense thriller Sophia - A little girl goes missing in Tunisia on a visit with her mother to meet her estranged father.  https://themovieisle.com/2026/03/30/sophia-manchester-film-festival-2026/