My Conspiracy theory:
Trump regime is going to trigger a recession enabling high value shares & assets to be bought with a discount.
Trump plc will directly benefit from this with loans from
The US government
What better way to scotch those rumours that heβs a Nazi.
Americans: poor people can't cook
Literally everywhere else: omg peasant food is the best, cook us more rustic undiscovered recipes
Ooh and also Lettres de mon moulin by Daudet, and Un Sac de Billes by Joseph Joffo
For a very smart one... Camus (L'etranger is a good starter), Maupassant short stories are good if somewhat depressing. I really enjoyed Marcel Pagnol too - La Gloire de mon Pere and Le Chateau de ma mere. I'd love to recommend Les Liaisons Dangereuses too but maybe wait a couple of years...a
It definitely isnβt.
A cramped bedroom with four beds: two single and two kids' beds on the floor
At my in-laws. Four people, four beds, two adults, two children, two levels and a Christmas miracle if we don't step on / flatten the children by morning. #duvetknowitschristmas
My 10 year old nephew has kindly vacated his room, so tonight I am sharing with 500 empty Prime bottles. And a hamster. #duvetknowitschristmas
A small double sofa bed watched over by a large red punch bag in shape of torso and head wearing a Christmas hat.
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas my sister and brother-in-law are sharing with Bob, my husbandβs martial arts training dummy. Weβve tried to make him look festive and welcoming.
Annual reminder that #duvetknowitschristmas is the hashtag to follow this evening.
If you see this, post a beach pic from your gallery
Today a British court will begin a hearing to decide the question of what is a woman.
The question could not be more pressing, with women no longer being able to safeguard their own spaces as Julie Bindel describes in todayβs Mail. 1/
Landline
It's that sweet, sweet value for taxpayers' money!
Sitting at my desk with nobody i know, so doing my work with Guns N Roses in my ears. Very "collaborative".
They seem to think it will be ok by this afternoon. I hope so as I need to get home from work! God speed on your quest!
Thameslink core line (through St P, Blackfriars, London Bridge etc) is also flooded so that's screwed too.
Thameslink?
Saying words mean something they don't means you need more words to distinguish between the things you've scuppered the meanings of.
I've done a starter pack. Here you go.
@levparikian.bsky.social @davidmuttering.bsky.social
With apologies to everyone who would happily have got through Boxing Day without a reminder of the inexorable march of time, itβs the 30th anniversary today of the BBC premiere of The Wrong Trousers, which means itβs time to tell you a silly story about sound effects
OK, I need to be on here more, I think. Who am I missing from The Bad Place?
Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what
Freshly cooked steak and veg pie with suet crust, before we all yummed it up for tea.
Made an absolutely banging pie for tea.
All the words had all been spoken
And somehow the feeling still wasn't right
And still we continued on through the night
Tracing our steps from the beginning
Until they vanished into the air
Trying to understand how our lives had led us there
(although pretty much anything from this song will do)
Every day, everywhere.
