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Breaking the glass on this
Georges Simenon A Maigret Christmas And other stories
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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A diagram of the different layers of the ocean with the very deepest part labelled Bluesky
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Further research suggests I saw a Moby-Dick themed crazy golf course - I wonder if @iammilliam.bsky.social has played here
Aerial view of mini golf course including a lake with a masted boat and a white whale breaching the water
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Cat #2: Ozymandias
A handsome cat sat in a fluffy bed with a wary look on his face
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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My brother has new cats. This is Nero
A handsome young cat sitting on a person
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Post an image that will always make you laugh
A woman photographed in a garden holding up some black underwear with one hand. Beside her is a largish white fluffy dog with its mouth open and a long tongue hanging out
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I wonder if Chesterton ever heard of this book. There would have been a three year window before he died.
Cheese My forthcoming work in five volumes. "The Neglect of Cheese in European Literature" is a work of such unprecedented and laborious detail that it is doubtful if I shall live to finish it. Some overflowings from such a fountain of information may therefore be permitted to springle these pages. I cannot yet wholly explain the neglect to which I refer. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Virgil. if I remember right, refers to it several times, but with too much Roman restraint. He does not let himself go on cheese. The only other poet I can think of just now who seems to have had some sensibility on the point was the nameless author of the nursery rhyme which says: "If all the trees were bread and cheese" which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony. If all the trees were bread and cheese there would be considerable deforestation in any part of England where I was living. Wild and wide woodlands would reel and fade before me as rapidly as they ran after Orpheus. Except Virgil and this anonymous rhymer, I can recall no verse about cheese. Yet it has every quality which we require in exalted poetry. It is a short, strong word; it rhymes to "breeze" and "seas" (an essential point); that it is emphatic in sound is admitted even by the civilization of the modern cities. For their citizens, with no apparent intention except emphasis, will often say, "Cheese it!" or even "Quite the cheese." The substance itself is imaginative. It is ancient-sometimes in the individual case, always in the type and custom. It is simple, being directly derived from milk, which is one of the ancestral drinks, not lightly to be corrupted with soda-water. You know, I hope (though I myself have only just thought of it), that the four rivers of Eden were milk, water, wine, and ale. Aerated waters only appeared after the Fall.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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When Harvey met Szalay
Samantha Harvey and David Szalay at the 2025 Booker prize ceremony
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Chapter 67 Cutting In The exterior of a Toby Carvery called the Moby Dick
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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There is this, in Suffolk
Gravestone inscribed with: DRACULA THE BLACK ALSATIAN JAKARTA 10 JUNE 1973 THORNHAM 21 APRIL 1986
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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all I could think was 'so this is where Harfynn Teuport ended up'
Wow! It's Harfynn Teuport! A young man with big orange hair and a loud shirt presenting on Rok TV
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Decorated the lid for the tea jar with an autumnal tiger collage #art #makestuff
Circular wooden lid decorated with a paper collage of a chunky white tiger stood amongst autumn leaves while a small blue bird sings in a tree branch overhead
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Quite the double team on the wall of the cafe I'm in this morning - that old hound Bibendum and a lesser spotted Fiat lube golem.
Two vintage advertising signs on a wall, the first shows the Michelin mascot - a man made from white tyres - smoking a cigar and riding a bicycle. Underneath is a mysterious striding white figure with boxes of motor oil for hands and feet labelled Lubrificante Fiat
November 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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and then that led me to dig out this (photographer: me)
a young green parakeet with a red beak and quizzical expression, poking out of a hole in a tree trunk
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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found poem
Small Pigs Warmed By The Larger Pigs Below
November 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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You stand out in the desert A wreck in an antique land Two vast and trunkless legs of stone And near them, on the sand Your half sunk visage, frown and lip And sneer of cold command And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner, they'd be your partner and You're so vain You probably think this sonnet's about you You're so vain I'll bet you think this sonnet's about you Don't you? Don't you?
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Illustration of hundreds of hairy men dragging a massive rock to Stonehenge
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I managed this once
Screenshot from app showing I apparently walked 0.03 miles in 8 hours 55 minutes and burned 93,731,032 calories
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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It is an Andre Marriner,
And he booketh one of three
A football referee showing a yellow card to Harry Kane while Willian and David Luiz look on
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Good to know that if you ever needed to get Sobek the Egyptian crocodile god a present you could spring for some airpods
A pale stone statue of a figure with the long head of a crocodile but human ears
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Feel like Magdalen College could have done a bit better with the meter here
A sign attached to a metal gate reading "Keep the badgers off the lawns! Please close this gate between dusk and dawn"
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Richard Hearn appears as Baron Pastry in "Cinderella" at Bromley
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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as it's World Bread Day
Photograph of 1930s footballer with text beneath: Alex James The world's greatest footballer and captain of the Arsenal Team - knows the value of Bread Read what he says I am glad the public is being in-formed of the reasons for eating plenty of Bread. In my opinion there's no food to equal Bread for building energy and vitality, and I think it's time the public realised this truth. Professional footballers like myself and the other Arsenal boys, lead a mighty strenuous life and our success depends above all on perfect physical fitness. That's why we all eat plenty of Bread at every meal. It's all nonsense to talk about Bread producing fat. Nobody eats more Bread than we do, and I'll challenge anyone to find an ounce of superfluous fat on any of us in the Arsenal team. I'm delighted to lend what help I can in making the British public realise more than ever the value of the bread-eating habit. Good luck to you." Alex James The more strenuous your work or your play-the more you need plenty of BREAD
October 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Elaine and David Puddy from Seinfeld, sat next to each other on a plane
October 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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A bit of Robert Herrick
DREAMES Here we are all, by day: By night w'are hurl'd By dreames, each one, into a sev'rall world.
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM