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Sorry HogsBreath, We're Sticking
With Mark Kelly, Senator, Astronaut
And Navy Pilot.......
Has Richard Tice resigned from his front bench & deputy leader positions in Reform yet?
It's a week since controversy over his unpaid tax came to light. It is way more serious than anything related to Angela Rayner.
He called for her to go. But he remains in place.
Why won't Reform take action?
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social dishcloth I'm guessing something to do with capillary action.
Not branded, but brinded, it was autocorrected and I didn't notice.
Ong bookend.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I get a big dopamine hit on the odd occasion you've like one of my posts. Although getting a like from Ricky Jervais (re cat joke) and Gikes Brandreth (re independant bookshops), Prof Cox (aurora borealis) was pretty good.
Black and white kitten asleep on cushions on the sofa.
#cats #Shakespeare
"Thrice the branded cat hath mew'd. - Macbeth
Not my little familiar, Paddy, the rescue kitten, is too pooped to meow after a long play out in the garden.
Poem - Word Crunching (it has 8 lines) I wrote a poem on a page but then each line grew to the sum of the previous two until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency because, as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency
I admire poet Brian Bilston's word play.
Book Shakespeare-The Mystery. Pictures Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. Author George Elliott Sweet.
Haven't read those, but my OH has this old library book, published 1963 and put out to pasture by the lending library in 1977. I did read it. In it Sweet postulates that Queen Elizabeth I was in fact Shakespeare.
Ah well, it's also my late father's birthday so I have a soft spot for this date. Also, if I wanted to go for the triptych, Saint George's day in England. 🌹 😃
Canal views (and other waterways) 566. Kennet and Avon Canal. #canals Misty morning at the lock gates. Waiting alongside another narrow boat for the water to level. Trees on either Bank.
Canal views (and other waterways) 566.
Kennet and Avon Canal. #canals
"Known unto these and to myself disguised? I'll say as they say, and persevere so, and in this mist at all adventures go.
Comedy of Errors.
Robin, picked out by sunlight, perched in a Holly tree. Wooden fence behind.
#nature #Shakespeare #birds #robin #ShakespeareBirthday
"Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends."
The last line from A Midsummer Night's Dream, spoken by Robin Goodfellow, or Puck, asking the audience to applaud.
Random postcards from the edge of reason No 333. #vintage Serendipity dictated that today's card is the Shakespeare statue, Gower Memorial, Stratford-upon-Avon. Erected in 1888 in the Bancroft gardens. Mown grass, flowerbeds, River Avon, trees, blue sky. Tourists.
Random postcards from the edge of reason No 333.
#vintage Serendipity dictated that today's card is the Shakespeare statue, Gower Memorial, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Pile of books all referencing Shakespeare. Plays, celebrity biographies, poetry, quizzes, ordnance survey, acting Shakespeare help books...
On his birthday I will celebrate Shakespeare in all it's forms.
Mug with text - Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 1994/95 MACBETH HENRY V TWELFTH NIGHT A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM MEASURE FOR MEASURE Behind are two empty glass bowls. Christmas cactus on the windowsill next to a pot set of measuring cups, a plant pot with a blue primrose on it containing basil and a porcelain egg coddler with roses on it. Light outside. Grey shed, privet hedge and viburnum bush.
Morning blueskyers. It's my late dad's birthday, and no, he was not call George. Also Shakespeare's birthday. Kettle's on.
Today's poem is called An Invention of Collective Nouns by Brian Bilston.
A poem by a cool and very funny poet, Brian Bilston.
An Invention of Collective Nouns.
Nigel Farage keeps boasting about
how Reform candidates are 'carefully vetted'
So carefully, that they welcomed with open arms
a Tory councillor suspended amid allegations
he sent an unsolicited image of his “private parts”
via Reform Watch
2 blue tits perched on the rim of an antique brownstone sink herb bed.
#nature in our garden. Blue tits on the brownstone sink herb bed.
Canal views (and other waterways) 565. Kennet and Avon Canal. #canals Three narrow boats moored on the left. Bridge over the water with white rails. Trees on either Bank. Blue-grey sky.
Canal views (and other waterways) 565.
Kennet and Avon Canal. #canals
The art of the insult...
To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever see again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw.
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) English writer.
Random postcards from the edge of reason No 332. #vintage The Round House, Evesham. (15th century) Three story timber framed building. On a busy street, cars, market stalls in the market square. Bell Tower on the right. Blue sky with some fluffy white clouds.
Random postcards from the edge of reason No 332.
#vintage The Round House, Evesham. (15th century)
I despair.
I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax.
Please don't share.
Tuesday April 21 2026 reminder that not a single Epstein client has been arrested
#EPSTEIN
#EPSTEINFILES
#TRUMPANDEPSTEIN
Orange mug next to empty glass bowls. Christmas cactus on the windowsill next to a pot set of measuring cups, a plant pot with a blue primrose, a porcelain egg coddler with roses on it and a storage jar with a butterfly on it. Dark outside.
Morning blueskyers. Up early today. Kettle's on.
I haven't seen any reference to this in the UK 'let's-not-give Labour-any credit-for-anything' media.
Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda .
Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc.
And nowadays not in the Guardian either.