A public grumble - we went to the Edinburgh International Festival Programme launch this evening and the email invite said 5pm for a 6pm started and we rocked up at 5:35 and it had basically finished 😤
I cycled up Market Street on my Brompton this evening and I think even Poggy would find that a challenge 😬
I LOVE THIS! 🤣
And now we in the UK understand why the Euro banknotes have vague images of bridges on them that could exist, but don't actually exist...
I've always fancied reading a Dickens novel by reading a chapter a week, as they were originally consumed
Principles of Boogie Management Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight Don't blame it on the good times Establish a collaborative working environment coupled with individual accountability to prevent a blame culture from developing in the first place Brian Bilston
Principles of Boogie Management.
When I heard this on the 8am radio 4 news this morning, I said to the husband "I can feel the right wing culture warriors twitching already" 🙄
My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.
Oh dear god. Has Stock published more drivel?
Why not combine the two: wildlife + national heroes? I’ll start..
Culture war latest: the Bank of England has announced that after a public consultation, to which it received 44,000 responses, the next new banknotes will feature native wildlife.
Tories: "It is deeply depressing that under Lab our national heroes are considered too 'divisive' to be on bank notes."
I still think about this a lot.
yup. And there's no fucking way I'm using the money I've earned doing work to pay to do more work, even if it's very enjoyable. I mean I'd rather spend the money on city-break or something
JFC. Performance related pensions are certainly a mood 😳
I know the unions have to go through the motions, but...
Now there is a climate emergency metaphor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yup. And much as conferences can easily just be portrayed as a junket, they are incredibly valuable for the exchange of ideas
In trying to reject one journal review request, I've ended up accepting two 🤦♂️
REALLY interesting CfP in my emails and no point in responding because we have nooooooo money. I feel really quite cut off from international academic networks these days 🙁
there was a guy in my year who worked out a lot and ate a dozen eggs a day, and boy was that an interesting smell...
the most stable. Stabler than a very stable thing. No changes at all. No. Just stability.
I have just learned that humans are more closely related to rabbits than the dogs or cats and I don't know why that should unnerve me, but Easy to overcook, though. Finish with cream and Dijon mustard
Cooking with Hannibal Lecter
yes, congratulations! And congrats to you @samfr.bsky.social !
although then you run into the issue the Greeks have that every man named Adonis isn't one...
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It is a beautiful name. Particularly with the emphasis on the final syllable - flor-e-AN
He must've been one of the last Algernons!
“And that was a new one from Florian & Thibault, from the album Decline of Algernon which is out on rough trade next month. Two more from them later in the show”
