Hahaha!

Going to Wiki and fingers crossed for Sandringham or Sandwich

Looks nice and a slow-closure too. I paid extra for the slo-close too though mine’s a normal bog. Can’t remember if it’s WD40 or something else that you put on the threads to slow down the rusting. The rusting is caused by us. Men.

Well, I won’t be making further Graun jokes; someone misinterpreting the gag ( which was definitely misinterpretable)

You’ll always have to fuck around with the fittings. Then they rust.…

Are we all moving to Spain? I hear it’s nice there

If you can get past “ You calling me a lemon?”

Read it as ‘see friends in prison’ which would be proper maxxing tbf

Genuinely, this is how I found out

Same. I dont want to be hungover if I need to run somewhere, fast

Is this the Lee Marvin “ran out of bars” version?

It needs CHRIST! just to sum up the zeitgeist

Might even stay up till 1AM to watch the fireworks #lastpint

Might go out for A Last Pint tonight #lastpint

there’s nuclear, there’s winter; ladies and gentlemen, give a warm round of applause to…

I didn’t get far into it then. Nice reminder though to give it a go as hopefully I’ll have matured…

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

The Guardian apparently ran a story in the 1980s about library closures in Essex headlined “Book lack in Ongar”.

Everyone with any shred of geopolitical knowledge currently switching their Duolingo to Mandarin.

My mother has been overpaid her civil service pension and ordered to repay it Through no fault of their own, she faces repaying £100 a month until she is 93 or face legal action

Am absolutely furious that they can get away with the massive harm they can cause pensioners. It’s like a toned-down P.O Scandal and *anyone* can be at the receiving end. The replies too
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.

My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

mishnets?

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

I’ve only just got this ( reading a particular timeline) but Bluesky is chocka with snobs

Just watched S1 E1 of the #ThePitt

Always be aware that television ER is a compression of actual events

I’m having that too. Everything is working slowly

The one I saw was £100 about 15 years ago and that’s why I balked. Now rare & ultra expensive. The sort of thing to have a special shelf built in an alcove & beautifully lit. 😞 #oneday

Once had the opportunity to buy a Taschen, very over-sized photo book about her from the V&A. One of my regrets.

Found it hugely disappointing. The hype from others was v surprising

I still have cocktail envy after all these months