Finally plucked up courage to investigate the bottom of my three year old hot composter and everything looks great except for egg shells and so called home compostable bags which came out looking just the same. They’re off the list.
How delusional can you get?
It’s Liz Truss mark two. The markets have got to him
The big question is which was the dumber of the two. And at least Truss didn’t kill thousands of people
I’m beyond depression now. I’m just quietly furious.
Russia shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near anything. It’s not just Ukraine though that’s bad enough. Putin has been waging a secret war against the rest of us for years
And often the artists don’t represent the views of their government of course. Out and out war mongers apart it’s a tricky area.
There is a difference between being out and out war mongering and just plain bad. I’ve always loved those places outside the Biennale where smaller nations put things on. Maybe smaller nations with dodgy human rights records.
Russia it’s easy they shouldn’t be there.
Israel you’ll be accused of being antisemitic.
America… never going to happen.
I agree. But it’s difficult though isn’t it? What about states where human rights mean nothing? Saudi who were all over everything in Venice a while back? UAE where just being gay can get you locked up? China?
Wouldn’t want to be the one dealing with those decisions.
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
No way should be they allowed in.
When mad Liz the Lettuce Truss did this to the UK markets the grey suits came in and defenestrated her.
Seems America doesn’t work that way.
I discovered last week that there’s a band in Italy called the Bawbags
m.youtube.com/@thebawbagsp...
When I was young I was dead lazy. Now I hate it if there’s nothing to do. My weekends are often harder work than‘working’ but that’s fine. Exercises different bits.
After years of being on call 7 days a week as a reporter I’m now very happy to divide between five days of inside work and two days mostly outside. Plants are easier than cows!
FLOOR MOSAIC WITH ANTELOPES, C4-C5 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This is another piece of British imperial spolia, dug up by Nathan Davis in 1858 and received by the British Museum the following year. It comes from a late antique domus in Roman Carthage and was probably a threshold mosaic between two rooms. Against a white background, two horned animals drink from a cantharos fountain whose waters shoot up and divide into two cascades which overflow the cantharos and fall into a square basin below. Usually the animals in similar scenes are deer, and they represent the spirit's thirst for God. In this case they're Bohor Reedbuck antelopes, which might have been found in North Africa when this mosaic was made, though now they do not appear north of the Sahara. Plants with red flowers dot the ground, perhaps poppies. Two fancy fowl, gallinules with their characteristic arched heads, fill the space over the antelopes' backs.
#MosaicMonday at the #BritishMuseum presents us with a floor #mosaic from C4-C5 CE #Carthage, where two antelopes drink from a #fountain, a #Christian metaphor for the soul's thirst for God, while a pair of #gallinules look on. #AncientBluesky 🏺
I like them but I always wake up with a bit of the wobbles about work.
This afternoon’s garden drama: an amorous but somewhat bedraggled cock pheasant stalking a feather perfect and rather supercilious hen who clearly isn’t into him.
Don’t think it caught on for some reason
Title: "The Haters" panel 1. Two round characters sit in a cinema. Yellow blob "I hate this!" Red Blob "Me too!" Panel 2. They have left the cinema Red blob "I hated every minute of that film! It was nothing like the book!" Panel 3. "Did you like the book?" asks Yellow. Red replies "I hated it!" then asks "You?" Panel 4. Yellow blob "I've not read it. I hated the film purely on its own merits." Panel 5. Red blob "I'll lend you my copy." Yello blob"That's very kind." Panel 6. Caption: "Later" Yellow, reading the book "I hate this!" Red (happily) "I knew you would!!"
"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com
Tho not quite as bad as this once spotted in Morrisons (did not try)
Publishing scams are exploding. Writers, read this Author's Guild piece to protect yourselves. bit.ly/4rp2VCa
Mondays are weird. I always slink to the laptop thinking... how do I kick off a new week's writing. Where do I start?
Knocking off for the morning and there's 1800 words in the bag.
I saw that one and it sounded like a cheese teacake. Which might be quite nice but it's not a HCB. The problem is some of the traditional supermarket ones aren't so great.
It’s beetroot. All very natural!
God knows what they’re smoking at M&S
The bun is pink!
I think M&S may win this one
It gets more ridiculous every year
It’s the crimes against hot cross buns time of the year.
