Thank you!!

Thanks!

I love the Welsh hashtag, but Isn’t there a psalm verse for it? Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melltigedig”?

I’m wondering what they thought would be Britain’s source of all that electricity. Abundant British coal? More Nuclear? As far as I’m aware no one in 1979 was seriously proposing wind farms.

I find that the phenomenon of recognising all the characters but not being able to construe the sentence (in Mandarin) has a kind of inverse in listening where I know the meaning of what is said to me but would have great difficulty in articulating what words have been used. Does that happen too?

Thanks! Appreciated!

Thank you! Appreciated. Much more positive than my work colleague who looked at me, groaned, and started on his horrific anecdote about back surgery…

I have developed sciatica and I now walk like an old person. This is vexing and distressing.

I was going to say “like someone twice my age” but I realised that “like someone 1.5 times my age” was more apt, because people twice my age generally don’t walk.

And if you drop your phone into the inner workings of your seat, don’t try to retrieve it yourself, but ask for assistance when you land. Otherwise you might find yourself blasted through the cockpit canopy without any time to fold away your tray table and put your seat in the upright position.

I’ve heard that in the F-15 the food service isn’t very good, but at least you don’t have to bother with the safety briefing. The fact you can’t lie fully flat is more than compensated by the badass entertainment system.

“Can you really not play, Grandad? I’m sure mummy said when you drank the fourth beer at lunch that you were harpist”
#GirlsOwnCc

Pavlova?

1066 turned out ok. Ish.

Interesting indeed! I don’t think I’m a particularly visual-oriented person. I can’t draw, I am mildly prosopagnostic, and I much prefer music and literature to visual arts.

I can choose what to focus on. So I can choose whether to “see” an apple in my mind, or think about its taste, or the crunch sound as I bite. Etc. But I don’t *have* to focus on any of these.

Tart nectar???
Oh, I see.
Just for a moment I thought this was @girlsown.bsky.social territory.

Hey @microsoft.com my laptop’s default landing page on Edge - I assume curated by you - is a series of clickbait ads for the Telegraph and the Daily Express. Which I assure you isn’t a response to my reading habits. Do you realise this makes you look like fascists?

I just walked past the genetics research institute between Euston and Kings Cross. A couple were clearly visible doing what looked like a prelude to their own “genetic research”.

I guess you could say they had a neck in the Crick.

You could of course have said “Greetings from Tasmania, Penguin” or “Greetings from Penguin, Tasmania, Penguin” or “Greetings mania from Penguin Tasmania, Penguin” or “Penguin mania greetings from” … or…. or ….

Fantastic! Looks amazing! Tasmania’s very much on the bucket list…

Double, double,
Toil and trouble.
‘Lectric powered
Russell Hobb’ll.

As the clouds of war gathered in 1914, depth charges were laid in the Serpentine. The unfortunate Martha Sniddons picked one up and used it as a skating aid. The picture captures the moment when the explosion caught her under the chin, leading to her sad demise a millisecond later. #GirlsOwnCc

The cafe on the ice was famous for its novelty kitchen-roll dispensers.
#GirlsOwnCc

@upsidebackwards.bsky.social

Milk. But a bit watered down. And with a sparkle. As you might expect, a bit weird overall.

If it turned up on the menu today, I don’t think I’d bother.

It’s not too late! All you need is a pint of milk and a soda siphon….

My grandparents used to give me carbonated milk as a treat (in the 1980s)! It seemed a little strange at the time but I guess it’s what they remembered from their own childhood.

Thank you! You’re right though. There is no illustration that doesn’t bring out the worst in me. That is what the worst in me is for.

Using faux-archaic English for comic effect is fine, but it really irritates me when they get the grammar wrong. “Thou” is nominative and “thee” is accusative, so “Thee haven’t changed” is wrong.

Otherwise, dear card designer, I would have bought your card.

Verily, ‘tis not rocket science.