Happy birthday! (I've just checked an apparently it's my 3Cth birthday this year...)

I've got it wishlisted and planning to pick it up in the next few days!

Hey, I'm blocked too! Result!

Indeed (not that I'm claiming that I'm disabled, I hasten to add! But if it's bad for me, how is it for genuinely disabled people?)

My assumption is that they did this deliberately to encourage people to 'network', but they obviously consider people with physical issues unimportant.

I have a hip problem that makes it painful for me to stand for long periods of time. I went to a work-related conference at the Excel in London a few years ago, and it was a nightmare for me.
Unless you were actually in a presentation, there were no seats at all!

Big Finish did a whole range of pretty good Tomorrow People audio dramas, with most of the original cast turning up at some point.
But then they lost the licence, and so not only did they have to can the season that was ready for release, but could no longer sell the earlier seasons.

Now we've got a dog we know a lot of local dogs' names, but none of their owners!

It's weird how that happens!

A contact form reads: Subject: Checking Authenticity Body of message Hi there Beth. I have been contacted by someone who is using the email, [email blacked out], and using you name and one of your novels 'Feast of the Starving Stone: The Chef’s Five' to engage with me as a fellow author - if it is you then great, if it is not, as i suspect, then this is a fake approach. I just wanted to be sure. thanks. [signed name blacked out] You're a real person, right? No, I'm a bot. Please don't include existential questions in a contact form. Yes.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Just realised that this was meant to be a reply to a reply in the thread. Sigh...

Coco bit my nose the first time I sang in front of him!
Everyone's a critic...

I've not forgiven 'Have I Got News for You' for their part in selling Johnson as a harmless buffoon.

I've never forgiven either of them for that episode. It should have permanently ended both their careers.

Good lord, I missed that one. Why are people (usually men) like this?
(I have a work colleague who absolutely has to have an opinion on everything. He is exhausting. On the other hand, he leaves in four weeks, so party time

Yay! Excellent news! (My wife is a cancer survivor, but my sister wasn't, so always happy to celebrate this sort of good news.)

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

I still remember seeing Torville and Dean's routine after their wondrful Mack & Mabel and Barnum routines and thinking 'Well, this is really boring.'
Apparently I was in a minority...

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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Something like that...

We got Coco a football that you'd swear was too big for him to get his mouth around and chew.
In ten minutes, he's torn half the outside cover into bits...
To be fair, he hasn't punctured it yet, but I doubt it'll be long.

Such a fantastic line!

That's amazing and excellent news!

Playing it right now!

Not really the point, but this picture reminds me of how much I miss the time when D&D Modules were like this, not 300 page small print tomes that you have to take out a second mortgage to buy...

I feel that. After I finally got anti-anxiety meds 10 years ago, I learned what it feels like not to have your stomach churning 24/7. It was wonderful!
Now, stomach churning is back, and it sucks.

Same with 'nanotech', though that seems to have gone out of fashion these days...

LOS ANGELES: Please help these kitties Kit & Caboodle. Their owner passed away last week, and I've taken it upon myself to find them a loving forever home. They are GOOD BABIES. Can anyone *LA area only* adopt them? I just don't want them to end up in a kill shelter. Share, RT, ask around... thanks!

I don't judge people's choices normally, but I believe that Starbucks is coffee for people who don't really like coffee...