Janet E Davis

Let's go for lunch at the Lobster Social Club. Please bring your swimwear, a good cod-piece, and a pair of stout gloves, for comfortable mingling with your fellow creatures.

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.

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I've got my eye on you...

Enough adjectives.

Cuisine, in the future. The rabbit looks ready to fight off the superchef with a firm carrot.

Jupiter is still king of the planets in March 2026. Here's how to see it at its best | BBC Sky at Night Magazine How to observe the planet Jupiter in the night sky in March 2026. Key dates and tips for observing the gas giant planet.

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I cannot afford to send you any more Post Cards as I have only a 1/- left.

It made sense to butter first in colder houses with firmer butter - but how she cut it so thinly horizontally was always a source of amazement. Of course, it helped make the loaf go further, & she came from a big and not well off family.

It did look really dangerous even when I was very young 😄

My great-great aunt (whose cooking skills were not great apart from making amazing treacle tarts) was a dab hand at cutting the thinnest slices of Hovis by buttering the cut end of the loaf and then cutting the loaf, buttered side up & sawing towards herself.

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Bernard Moss (1923–2012) © the artist's estate. 📷 Jewish Museum

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The temptation to buy loads of books is too great.

Episode 2: The History of Cats on Ships by The Untitled History Podcast From as early as 7000 years before the common era, we have evidence suggesting cats served alongside humans on ships. This isn’t just in a civilian capacity. As long as there have been warships, cats ...

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In the unlikely instance of being able to replace my dark slime green carpet that was here when I moved in over 30 years ago, I’ve been looking at carpets for 5 years. They are grey, beige, greige, and striped (incl lots of grey or beige) 🙄

😄 There is far too much grey crushed velvet, grey chenille, grey faux linen, grey carpet, grey paint, grey furniture in the world.

It’s not for me but I like it. If I liked gothic style, I’d want it with all the fixtures, fittings & furniture 😄

Quite! And there are those for whom having babies would be life-threatening or disabling.
One of my grandmothers probably shortened her life by having a baby (she had heart problems).
I realise I quite possibly would’ve triggered rheumatoid arthritis 20 or so years earlier if I’d had a baby.

Hmm. Colour me surprised.

Pig face

Pig, or more precisely a boar, rattle.

Highlights from this morning at Portsmouth Museum include this wonderful ancient Cypriot pig rattle. Head to my instagram to see the pig in action!

A high resolution view of a crescent Io with mountains near the terminator.

Io from the Juno spacecraft on February 3, 2024. The night side can be seen in reflected light from Jupiter. The quality of this dataset is truly stunning.

Lemming Squeezy

What has Yvette bought from the pharmacy, to send her into such red ribbon rhapsodies?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

**Top Ten Images of the Year · #6 of 10**

Hodge the cathedral cat at Southwark Cathedral 🐈

The Moon partially obscured by the Earth's shadow.

The Moon at waxing crescent phase lower left. Planet Venus at upper right.

Constellation of Orion with all its brightest stars and a tiny great Orion nebula below centre.

The blue star cluster the Pleiades showing nebulosity at centre.

Even even more favourite pics: Partial Lunar Eclipse, Waxing Crescent Moon and Venus, Orion, The Pleiades.

If you're in the UK or Europe now, Saturn and the Waxing Moon are appearing close together. Look south. Weather permitting. 🔭 🧪

Thank you!x

Happy Christmas to you all!