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Neither at our school ☹️
Happy World Book Day! My daughter’s school refuse to allow dressing up because apparently it’s too disruptive, some kids find it upsetting, and some people can’t afford fancy costumes from Amazon. Apparently every other school in the country can manage it, but presumably they’re all negligent?
One of our absolute favourite books.
Put your name to the Good Law Project’s campaign to get the ECB to scrap their trans ban: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-ECB...
Broken Britain update. Saw a pothole exposing a grate this morning, reported it at 9am, had been filled by 1:30pm
It’s not really fair to count Klaebo’s medals as part of Norway. He should be his own country. #bbcolympics
5yo keeps sneaking out of her bedroom because she doesn’t want to miss Ed Leigh’s commentary on the skiing half pipe. #bbcolympics
Perfectly round golden pancake with golden syrup
Made (by @jonlo88.bsky.social) and eaten (by me) in silence because I was trying to convince the 5yo I was still sitting outside her bedroom and not in the kitchen.
Immigration reform? Hell yeah! Make everyone citizens!
An exciting day! 😃
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Pancake expert here. The annual rush to harvest pancakes on a single day has extremely deleterious effects on the local pancake ecosystem. By all means pick a few pancakes for your own use, but please leave some on the bush so that it can recover in its own time.
I want to see a simile-off between Ed Leigh and Andy Zaltzman. Give the people the sports commentary they want.
“Shook up like a game of boggle. Other board games are available.”
I adore the Olympics commentators’ similes. “If this jump was a film it would have eight tentacles.” “She had time to serve in-flight meals on that.” Quite apart from all the completely incomprehensible jargon. It’s pure poetry.
Every time my 5yo sees Chemmy Alcott or Ed Leigh on #bbcolympics she yells “Look! It’s Ed and Chemmy! We know them!”
We don’t know them, we just watch #skisunday every week. But she seems to think they’re her friends.
"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."
To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.
Ice is very slippery. I’m not surprised.
What on earth just happened in the ice skating?!? I’m only watching because the cat fell asleep on my lap, I thought the result was a foregone conclusion. #winterolympics
GB finally win a medal at the winter olympics and it's gold for Matt Weston in skeleton.
First man to win a gold for GB since Christopher Dean 42 years ago.
I’ve turned it off because I can’t bear to watch. I don’t even care about tray sliding!
Since the Italian football team won the world cup in 2006, their cricket team has now won exactly the same number of world cup games: One.
A snoozing cat. He is stretched out for maximal length across the dining table he's not allowed to be on.
House rule: cats aren't allowed on the table
The cat:
That one I had been following, although not closely. I rarely miss a chance to listen to Kevin Howells and Mark Church.
[watching the winter Olympic snowboarding]
COMMENTATOR: a lot of anticipation here. are we going to see a 1640?
ME: the end of the personal rule of Charles I? ONE MIGHT HOPE
I can see it now
Start: 11am because who gets up before then?
Lunch: 1pm
Resume: 4.30pm
Dinner: 6.30pm
Resume: 10pm
Close for drinks: midnight
Is that what normal-length trousers look like on a ridiculously tall bowler?
The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
I had no idea there was a T20 World Cup on at the moment. I’m afraid for the next few weeks I’m only interested in snow and ice.
If I ran ICC outreach, we'd go to all the olive oil European countries with a pitch centered around beating the English at their thing and stopping twice a day for meals.
There is a large overlap in people who buy second homes and people who are keen to exploit tax loopholes. It would cost so much to police it and in the cost of all the inevitable drawn-out appeals. Not a workable system, appealing as it is.
