Album cover of The Blues Band's album "ready".
I haven't listened to this LP for too long. Great accompaniment to the ironing.
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Album cover of The Blues Band's album "ready".
I haven't listened to this LP for too long. Great accompaniment to the ironing.
Exactly.
No-one gets to whinge about captive plastic caps on bottles* UNLESS they can objectively demonstrate a prior history of whingeing about captive ring-pulls on cans, which were introduced for exactly the same reason several decades ago.
*A very good thing to do, by the way.
And 2:13 - "Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution".
I think early 1930s.
The spine of a book entitled "The Great Book of Disasters & Tragedies".
A fine addition to my library. Acquired in Johannesburg for the princely sum of R9.
❌ No, a screenshot spread online doesn't authentically show the criminal record of Renee Good. Beware the image spreading online: www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
Susan was saying her granny favoured Mick McManus and his very tight shorts! Im away to scrub my brain out.
But a great actor!
Creationism in the classroom: does it matter? Kitzmiller 20 years on
December 20 was the 20th anniversary of the day on which Judge John Jones III handed down his decisive ruling that Intelligent Design was a version of creationism and as such could not be taught within the publicly funded US…
When you say "old school", are we talking Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks here?
A pint glass of Clockwork Irish velvet stout brewed by the Changing Times Brewery.
My birthday trip to Dublin is going like Clockwork.
Just don't tell her when the clocks go forward.
Always a good plan.
I was always confused by the second line of the hymn "There is a green hill far away", where 'outwith' rather than 'without' would have made much more sense. My child brain could never understand why this hill wasn't surrounded by its very own city wall.
Sorry to hear about your nut.
A career break or sabbatical is a great thing, and should be a normal part of a working life. I only got mine after a mental health crisis.
Glad things are getting better for you.
My RTW ritual was to group by sender, then I could block-delete the crap. Usually less than 10% required any further attention.
Thanks Chris. Always a hard decision, but the right one.
Vale Tinkerbell.
b. 01/06/2007
d. 25/05/2025.
A good and faithful cat.
A growing list of cases including this one here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activis... No wonder Musk told his followers to stop supporting Wikipedia
Clip from Oxford Languages defining "diktat" as "an order or decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent".
Trump's "Executive Orders" are, in plain English, diktats, which makes him ... er ... a diktator? Have I got that right?
Extract from a menu reading "Panko breaded melt in the middle camembert with a cranberry sauce dip".
If I'd ordered this and not been served breaded spleen stuffed with cheese, I'd be very disappointed. #WhyPunctuationMatters
Never forget the 5 Ps Principle:
Proper Procrasination Prevents Premature Performance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u... But remember what JD Vance said: the Professors are the enemy 🧪
All my duvets are now wool.
Utterly gorgeous.
