Not the main point, but turkey only became the main Christmas dish for ordinary Britons in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, if families could afford a bird at Christmas it was more likely to be goose (which, unlike turkey, is actually native to the British Isles).

German friends: A friend of mine lives in the US. Their 104 yr old mum is dying. She fled the Nazis in WW2 and lived in the US every since. In her final days/ weeks(?) there's need for gentle, soothing songs from her childhood, so from roughly 90-100 yrs ago. Can you suggest any? Thank you. Plz RT.

A little outing just before dark.

This is just wonderful. Real village newsletter vibes.

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

When you meant to make candlesticks but just repotted a money plant for which you don't have a big enough cache pot.

An image like a still from an expressionist film - the photographer might be trying to steal the soul of the women holding the little statue (what's that figurine, how does it fit into the story?) by fascinating her until he has crept closer, closer, right into her eyes

🎶 STUPIDLY PROUD MATERNAL KLAXON 🎶 If you're near Chelsea on 30 Nov, you could pop into St Luke's to hear a few lovely carols, one of which HAS BEEN COMPOSED BY MY SON because he won the competition and gets to sing his own music. I think it might be livestreamed too, for mothers 500 miles away.

He stees you when you're stleeping.

„Ein Schriftsteller ist ein Mensch, dem das Schreiben schwerer fällt als allen anderen.“ (Thomas Mann) Mit 😘 und 😉 an den #germanbooksky

Guy at the supermarket in an argument with two women because he'd parked in the last parent & child space. "But I've got four children." he said. Congratulations mate, but none of your kids are here: Those spaces aren't a reward for producing a child.

literally why www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

When you get home late and your #cat has questions...😬 #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday #Cats

This has to be one of the best recipe click through failures I've come across.

THIRTY FIVE artists and makers under one roof showing their work. Wine, coffee, tea, sofas, jazz and buzz. Join us!

My Ebb beakers are featured in Ealing Living magazine's latest issue.

My friend is a potter and his cat likes to help. #cats #pottery

Konstanza Vase by Dümler & Breiden, West Germany (1970) #Earthenware

A selection of more than 100 varieties of apple grown at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, in Norfolk, displayed and labelled for its annual Apple Day.

On the subject of "illegal" immigration: I had this email from my cousin today. I also cannot imagine just casually going out the night before doing something so terrifying. It was their second attempt.

Learned a new German word.

she better run

Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.

Dear Mayor-elect Katie Wilson: I have a new and innovative idea to improve pedestrian safety.

I’m not saying I won’t moan about it when the time comes to pay, but I think the Govt should raise my income tax because I am profoundly worried about the state of public services.

If you're really poor, why aren't you in black and white?"

Are we not commenting on the fact it was called ‘Strange Bedfellows’

2/2 This makes it hard to find an exact equivalent or translation of ‘kind’ in other languages. Our #translator friends can tell us which words come closest to conveying its essence(s). They will vary according to context in most cases.

Thread. (Also WTF are people actually eating? Prepared stuff, I bet.)

Do you know of any other accidental flags? These English urinals are very patriotic but surely there is more such stuff out there?!

i can never quite tell when they’re ripe

Damn, just found out a story of mine was re-transmitted (they never tell you, who do you think you are, important or something) so i could not nudge it towards interested ears... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - a young woman corresponds with film critic Barry Norman. (Based on a true event)

These Fog mugs of mine are jolly nice, even if I say so myself. I took the radical decision a couple of months ago to not only have pieces that haven't quite worked at home, and here we are.

*wishes* November but cold

As a consequence of the Spelling Bee I have invented the COMMODION which I hoped would be a kind of American musical toilet.

Grayson cat is so cheeky. Returns after 12 hours MIA and immediately asks to go play in the street. I won't let him because I'm still adjusting to him not having been run over.

Hard to see one without calling the other to mind.

Anyone else eat salad out of the bag like crisps. Or just me?

So, yesterday I wrote to a some people and warned that if they did X, they would also have to do Y to avoid a cock-up. Today, I find that X was done without Y. What a surprise.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

Makes a change to wake up and enjoy the overnight news from the US.

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

He's right about everything.

Somebody walking the narrow top field path, which I walked this time yesterday. It’s a path rarely walked at night, so I assume that is me and my light, and the field between us is acting as a lens dilating time. Going to shout a warning that the cat was sick / will be sick this/tomorrow morning

Or that Miss Havisham, when we first meet her, hasn't hit forty yet.

Of course it depends entirely on what the cap is but this excellent scheme shouldn't be curtailed if we want to get people out of their cars.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you

Dinner at a new Thai restaurant run by a Venetian artist who used to be in my open studio organisation. Weird but true.