Catherine Roberts (@alwaystotheside)

I'm currently doing preliminary research into a potential Masters dissertation topic, and a trail of lightly pencilled annotations in academic library books are making me increasingly suspicious that someone has addressed the topic before 🤔🧐😭

09.03.2026 17:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why you can remember every word of a song from 25 years ago – but not why you walked into the room Forgetting why you walked into a room isn’t a sign of cognitive decline. It’s your brain doing exactly what it evolved to do.

See? I was right, I've filled my brain up with decades of song lyrics and now there's no room left...

07.03.2026 08:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

06.03.2026 20:54 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

🤣🤷‍♀️😭

06.03.2026 09:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New... size? <twitch twitch> 📚
Seriously, looking forward to the letterbox thud!

06.03.2026 08:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😲🙌😲

06.03.2026 08:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There was a house near where I used to live in the Fens which had a terrible condensation problem... 🪴🪴🪴

04.03.2026 21:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SLC seems an odd place to go. I have Mormons in my family tree through the 1837 "mission" and there are alot of affinities to working-class churches.

03.03.2026 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mormons?

03.03.2026 18:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

<rushes to check diary>
😭😭

28.02.2026 07:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Facial hair? It would be a look.

26.02.2026 21:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Will #curatorrob be dying his hair red?

26.02.2026 19:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was very meh about the film, and read the book in the wrong frame of mind. This quotation is beautiful though... I shall have another go sometime.

25.02.2026 19:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They're warm!

Laptops, not felines.
Well, felines are warm too, obvs, but that's partly cos they're sitting on/under laptops...

25.02.2026 19:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

25.02.2026 06:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤞🧯😬

23.02.2026 20:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blimey, are you allowed candles on your insurance?
🕯 😲

23.02.2026 20:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone else spot the ?vodka bottle by the bed?

Poor house...

23.02.2026 07:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nope

22.02.2026 06:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've been in the Rochester hulk experience! I was all ready to be underwhelmed but really wasn't!

21.02.2026 20:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

👀

20.02.2026 08:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've set you to 'notify' when you skeet now, so I can worry in real time 🫂 . Hope this helps? It's the best I can do from here 🇬🇧

18.02.2026 20:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤷‍♀️💾

18.02.2026 08:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wayyyy ahead of ya...

18.02.2026 08:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The results of a magnetometry survey of the interior of an Iron Age hillfort, the outer ramparts of which are shaded in red and grey, showing hundreds of prehistoric roundhouses, post structures, ditches and pits

A magnetometry survey of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort Hod Hill #Dorset

Zoom in (you know you want to)

If you do you'll see 100s of 10-15m diameter roundhouses clustered along a road system branching out from the NE gate

© Dave Stewart 2014 / Bournemouth University

Happy #HillfortsWednesday

18.02.2026 06:46 👍 208 🔁 46 💬 9 📌 4

It does. But the more I study, the more incensed I am.

15.02.2026 08:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is OUTRAGEOUS! I'm spitting!!!

15.02.2026 08:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Hmm... I suspect the idiot might have other issues...

14.02.2026 17:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Aw! Sweeet!

14.02.2026 11:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Woodchester? That's a bit of an odd one.

14.02.2026 11:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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