The stupid thing is that support for native wildlife is the one thing that 99% of the people who live in the real world can agree on.
Is there anything the Tories won't try to draw into the culture wars?
The troubles
I know everyone hates Emily in Friends but the episode where Ross plays rugby actually shows her character having fun and showing a bit of personality. What might have been!
I cried when Wilbur and Charlotte said goodbye ‘You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing’. My daughter cried when she died. Reading it aloud was one of my best memories during lockdown.
My youngest is now in Y6 so she’s outgrown dressing up, but she went in with a favourite book today.
Based on my kids school, there are some kids who really do love dress-up and would be sad not to get to do it. And some who are relieved not to. As long as the school can accommodate both, where’s the harm? (Apart from expectation of spending money or time on a costume, which I agree is too much)
I don’t remember any dress-up days at primary school, unless it was a fancy dress parade which was at the annual bonfire/Firework night, a joint enterprise between school and the village. So I never got to be Marie Curie or the Worst Witch, or an orang-utan, or anything.
It wasn’t a flat I rented, but the first place my brother lived in London, and where I stayed over a few times, had a bathroom window overlooking a wood yard - and no curtain on the window, and the glass wasn’t frosted…
If you really, really had to have that layout you could at LEAST screen the loo with opaque glass. But no! (And what’s with all the red towels lying around everywhere?)
We had it read aloud at school and it was, hands down, the favourite book of the school. Only Charlottes Web came close to being as beloved as Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Picture of a tub labelled "jar full of soldiers". Below is a still of Lydia Bennett looking thirsty.
stole this off reddit for the very niche group of you who will enjoy it as much as I did
I wrote on here to Robin Ince when he left Monkey Cage, your audience like you for YOU, and they will follow you to what you do next. I’d say the same to Nadiya, she’s got that ability to bring people with her. I hope she finds a good platform for what she does next.
Yes - it’s obvious they have policies on swearing and what gets bleeped & what doesn’t, before/after 9pm, etc - there MUST have been a policy about other offensive terms, and there WAS time enough to edit out other things - so it looks like poor judgement.
Mojo takeaway in West Norwood.
Ugh I remember that poetry collection was the one you’d ALWAYS see in charity shops. The one no one wants to hang onto. (NB I am much happier that the current laureateship seems to be more like a poet for the nation, less about the royals).
Yes - I know of someone with serious chronic poor health and has reacted badly to vaccinations in the past (incl going into a coma). They still got the first covid vaccine, was monitored in hospital, very ill, doctors said ‘ok best you don’t have another dose’. They get a pass.
My dad used to walk out there to do bird counts, and he had to take a flare to alert the coastguard if something went wrong (and you needed a permit to store the flare inside your house).
Immigrants make up approximately 76% of Monaco's population.
A cute little #Roman brooch in the shape of a hare or rabbit - animal brooches were popular in the Roman world, & this may once have been a very treasured possession for someone who lived 1800+ years ago 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
I can’t tell you what a relief it is that I am not emotionally engaged with Wuthering Heights. If it was Jane Eyre being dragged around the internet like this, I’d be out there on the barricades. But as it is, it’s just downright hilarious.
It's the old newspaper cutting about the jubremony at the libary. Headline "The memories live on" I did copy and paste the text but it's a bit hit and miss because of the old photocopy and I don't have time now to go through all the delightfully made up words it hallucinates. You'll get the drift. CROWLAND'S Silver Jubilee committee was finally wound p on Thurs day evening with presen tatios cerem e Ib rary. The jubilee fand described by chairman Frank Parnell as 'one of the finest efforts incoln- shire' fremony rary. The jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as "one if the libraryaony aremony The jubremony at the lib- rary. Tremony at remony at the library. Thrremony at tremony at the liremoay at the lib raremony at the library. The described by funi chairman Frank Premony rremony at the liremony aremony at the libremony atremony at tre mony at the library. Tremorremony at the lib- The jubilee described by chairman Frank Parnell as 'one of the finest efforts in Lincoln- shire', fa be latched onto a through ball. Although be by the I managed to ba I home for second week to leave the field injured, this time suffering eye trouble. The winning goal was another 25-yard shot again from Blackstones' central defender- coming from their second chance of the game. from Boys, had a good debut.
After this swam into my brain last night (unbidden, if you will, but clearly there are neural pathways that divert here at the slightest nudge), it occurred to me that a few people may not have experienced it. Put that hot drink down. Now. Yes before you start reading.
I remember the elevator pitch of it being ‘If HIGNFY is for the broadsheet news, the Brain Drain is for the tabloids’. I would have been 12-13 ish at the time and I can remember thinking ‘well that idea won’t last long’.
Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp, by Georges Seurat
And also this.
For a classic British political scandal, you need an osteopath #iykyk
We discovered yesterday that the teen thinks the phrase CBA is ‘can’t be asked’ - which does make a kind of sense, ‘I am so unwilling to do this thing, I won’t do it even if you ASK me’. We said ‘ok fine, but please don’t say it to a teacher’.
I volunteered at a baby bank for a while and we had to pack for a family expecting quads. The sheer volume of stuff was mind-boggling. The washing machine would be going day and night.
The old #jokes are the best @danherb10.bsky.social...🤔🫣
I walked past a line of #Viking assembly sites the other day..
It was rubbish.. literally just one Thing after another 😊
I’d just moved to London after finishing uni, pretty lonely, when Tender came out, and it was one of the songs that got me through those days. It’s very untypical for Blur, but it’s lovely. And anyone who borrows from Keats is fine by me.
Rarely has the phrase ‘the banality of evil’ felt so appropriate.
