How lovely! 🥰
07.03.2026 22:56
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How lovely! 🥰
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Vodafone call me ‘Jacqueline’ and it makes me twitch. That’s for the doctor and my first year infants teacher.
Showing us all up as ever.
small hours big time one car on back roads heading west - Lincolnshire chalk upland lanes at night - sunk / hedged / straight one car parked up at that nature reserve on the hill
6/3/26 - nocturn
Ooh I saw the Fallen Women do their Fall karaoke thing, it was excellent. Fun!
Ha ha brilliant.
Yeah I haven't done it for years and I wasn't very good when I did. It's quite complicated. 😄
Yes, I think so.
Ha ha right? Bobbin lace is mad.
I'm reading the Reacher novels. I started in 2022 and it all seemed fine, but every single one I've read in the last year-ish has made me go 'ah yes. Serious people doing serious things seriously and effectively. In America! Seems unlikely!'
Why not pick up a copy of #KneadtoKnow for #BritishPieWeek!?
Within its pages, you'll find out about everyday pies & pasties & also wondrous & ridiculous ones like Yorkshire Christmas Pyes & the Denby Dale Pie.
Published by Icon Books & available as an audiobook from @wfhowes.bsky.social
A picture I borrowed from Pinterest of a lace pillow with a piece of partly-worked lace on it and dozens of spangled Midlands bobbins.
I'm editing a cookbook and cookbook editing is always very complicated in a satisfying way and it kind of reminds me of making bobbin lace.
White text on a blue background. The text reads - "this stoneware jar is part of the Royal London Hospital object collection. The jar was used to store leeches. It has a lid that locks by twisting the metal clasp. It has holes so that the leeches could breathe but not escape. In 1837 Barts bought 96,000 leeches for use in the hospital. Leeches were still in use at Barts up until the 1930s. They are still used in micro surgery and plastic surgery to help restore blood flow." There is a picture of a beige ceramic pot with a claw-like attachment that stops the lid from falling off.White text on a blue background. The text reads - "this stoneware jar is part of the Royal London Hospital object collection. The jar was used to store leeches. It has a lid that locks by twisting the metal clasp. It has holes so that the leeches could breathe but not escape. In 1837 Barts bought 96,000 leeches for use in the hospital. Leeches were still in use at Barts up until the 1930s. They are still used in micro surgery and plastic surgery to help restore blood flow." There is a picture of a beige ceramic pot with a claw-like attachment that stops the lid from falling off.
On this week's episode we looked at the dispensary accounts for the hospital which showed the purchase of leeches. Here you can see an example from our collections of a pot used to store leeches 🪱🪱
Woman who makes the bongs you get in corner shops
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Ooh Johncolin, no.
What would your name be if you were named after two uncles? I’d be Rodneygeorge. Or Georgedavid.
Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)
I'm sorry Alex, this is very sad. I know she had an amazing life with you guys. 💜
My friend Leigh was absolutely devastated when they changed the recipe for Rola Cola c. 1994
A screenshot from my email inbox. An email from Hotpoint. It says Jackie could you manage without cooker?
Me without cooker? That’s unpossible!
I went to one as ‘the British Isles’ once which was just two sheet maps (my dad’s a cartographer) glued to an old duvet cover. (I was 12, it was school-related, I did not want to ‘join in’ at all.)
Tales of the Suburbs is Book of the Day in the Guardian! ‘This fantastically entertaining alternative history of queer life in Britain’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Good morning! Yes, this is he
Has she been busy doing carpentry with that tiny saw??
I really liked UA but that was the last one that felt 'right' to me. The last two books feel awkward and strangely formal compared to all the others, Raising Steam especially (the only one I've never re-read). I assume this is to do with them being dictated and Pratchett not being able to edit them
God, she must go through so many knife blades!
I’ve tried paper cutting and it’s difficult, it takes a steady hand, a meticulous approach and real skill.
A laminated sign: BREAK DOWN CARTOONS AND BOXES BEFORE PUTTING THEM IN THE RECYCLE BIN.
“Ok so the basic premise of this one is that there’s a coyote and a roadrunner and the coyote’s efforts to catch the roadrunner become ever more elaborate and comical but – and this is the crucial bit – he never catches the roadrunner. Here are some of the common tropes used…”
Me: “You can find me on Pinteresque”
Them: “you mean Pinterest?”
Me: …
Them: …
Me: …
Them: …
Me: …no
A starling murmuration next to Brightons palace pier, as seen from the sea
Some new things for spring. The latest gallery newsletter from a very sunny #Brighton beach. eepurl.com/jAGDFI
