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BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

Thank god it was the tortoise and not Hitler.

What I lOve, ffs. 🙄

What I live most about this is the point where you're clearly putting the phone away to help so we miss her practically levitating out of the water. But we know it happened.

Go outside, Jamie. Find a café and sit for a while with a lovely hot drink. Leave your phone at home.

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

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As someone who is entiely tea-dependent, sir, I object.

"If you only read one book this year..."
I'll be honest. If you only read one book per year I don't see us becoming friends.

See, I told you you were cleverer than me.

Northamptonshire Carers Association Charity supporting unpaid carers in Northamptonshire

Also, because you are cleverer than me, you should in touch with these people, who will try to help you: www.northamptonshire-carers.org
(I am an idiot who keeps meaning to get in touch with her local carers' association but has not made the time yet.)

Coffee machines turned into tiny cafés by Wes Anderson’s model-maker Simon Weisse.

Parental update: the phone line to my parents' house has been restored! Mum can communicate with the outside world once more!

I am getting therapy from work. I realise it's not the most helpful thing for someone who doesn't have to pay for it to say, but have you considered something similar? A grounding external voice is helpful, and you deserve to have that help. 🫂

FYI Wordleing friends: 'mardy' is an acceptable word. No, it is not today's solution, just part of my working out. (But it did help me, so do with that what you will.)

How are you doing?

...because he said he had chest pains. So I've just spoken to someone at A&E, they're running tests and are waiting for bloods results, so I'm riding back in an hour. MEANWHILE, there's been a fault on the phone line to my parents' house, so lovely neighbour is relaying messages. 2/2

Oof. Well, your timing is immaculate. Dad was at a 'halfway-house' hospital because he'd been discharged but needs extra support before he gets returned home (and things need to be in place *at* home. But small hospital rang this morning and said they were sending him back to big hospital... 1/2

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Farcough.

I did not know that we'd exported Throwdown to the US! That makes me really happy, for some reason. Maybe because we get to share this joyful, kind thing that celebrates creativity?

How am I doing today? I dated something for today to 2024, is how I'm doing today.

There really are a lot of things in an A&E ward that sound like phones.

Hi, pals! I'm in an A&E ward with my dad.

There was a Middle-East security specialist being interviewed on Channel 4 news right now who had a copy of Guy Delisle's 'Jerusalem' on prominent display. #comics

And potatoes! Don't forget the Andy Murray spud ads.

Augh I didn't close a bracket argh argh dammit.

In case anyone's been wondering where I've been (i.e. why I've not been posting, the short answer is: both caring for and trying to sort out future care for my parents. It's still ongoing but no longer full-time.
Even shorter answer: life imploding, very stressed

I feel like we still win a little bit, as this is clearly referencing something that we haven't seen and don't have to see.

Another extremely obtuse claim to fame, freshly minted! Stu & I once played a in quiz league match against the captain of a series-winning Only Connect team!
(Our league team lost.)