The Rocking-Horse Winner by DH Lawrence
Have a short story for Cheltenham.
11.03.2026 22:08
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The Rocking-Horse Winner by DH Lawrence
Have a short story for Cheltenham.
Trump speaks, Trump lies.
And we thought ‘unreliable narrator’ was a literary device.
From a corner, no less. Poetic justice.
I daren’t google any more Austrian breakfasts. I will need smelling salts.
My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.
Eier im glas with its cannibalistic and homoerotic innuendos, google tells me? Good lord.
(If there’s anything on this planet that is anywhere close to the reward to effort ratio of making brownies… or the subsequent gluttony)
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...
A very glossy brownie mix pre cooking
Five eggs, you say?
Mais oui you can never ‘ave unoeuf.
huh. maybe selling pardons to the highest bidder has its downsides after all
The company turned off comments on the post, saying the corporate channel was intended to “foster productive conversations that move our business and community forward”.
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...
Oh dear, I thought Reuters had denied all this ages ago. It appears they were being economical with the truth… or less charitably mealy mouthed.
"I've never called for war with Eastasia" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This complaint highlights the problem of the lack of rural urinals. #TheArchers
As it says in the alt text. MZP went ‘heartlanding’ to unseat OV back then and now it’s Péter 2’s turn.
Let’s see.
Meanwhile I was just pondering the lack of originality of the journalist class.
Heartlanding back 2021 in Hungary’s election which went the same way as the previous decade of elections.
It’s always in the ‘heartland’.
Leave no trope unturned, I say.
David get up to £300 off funeral says Coop ad.
The Coop never not at it.
I wouldn’t normally repost anything without alt text but I think this works as is.
‘As a couple, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
In memory of Zoltan Pozsar and all the markets deep thinkers about geopolitics I am proposing a new grouping - TRINKETS. The most exciting investment idea ever.
How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trainspotting film poster
Martha Carter in #TheArchers crossover you have been waiting for.
Quite! That’s surely the preserve of late 80s Channel 4 drama.
I am so totally lost with who is living with whom, who’s married, who’s shagging and whose farm it is. My 15 minutes of everyday folk has morphed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. 🙀
Queen Victoria
Victorian values.
Wellyphant - a sort of elephant fireman
A friend of mine who was a fireman had to dress as Wellyphant to promote fire awareness.
Little did I know at the time…
Peggy Fortnum’s drawing of Paddington on his suitcase
Paddington sitting on suitcase after he is abandoned in streets of Dubai.
Telegraph says pets abandoned
Dubai tax dodgers abandon pups and pussycats. True British values.
Sadly she’s real! Just stupid and inept.
