it’s holly bobbins or jolly robins

oooh only two sleeps left until my olly robbins

every time i hear about olly robbins i mishear the word holibobs and physically recoil

bin catte! one of our local cats is called bin king because i first met him splendidly enthroned on a wheelie bin on a driveway eight feet above the street

the literary surfacing of this is paul muldoon’s “milkweed and monarch” imho

YES it’s kind of the pop science arm of the global village coffeehouse micro-aesthetic

i saw organised and thought this was some kind union thing and got very very confused

my phone is full of screenshots of this article and this is the most partridgey

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

appalling, but especially the refusal to treat you as the still current members of a shared community and take questions — it’s so spineless and disrespectful

sparkesykkel skal kun brukast i tunnelsystemet: scooters should only be used in the tunnel system

so funny seeing them all sling them over their shoulders to get up the hospital escalators

a volunteer has just served me a coffee from a trolley in the library, where there is also a grand piano for some reason

also all the doctors look about 14

at the big hospital and there are so many doctors whizzing around the corridors on scooters

Peak mainstreaming:

A so-called festival of philosophy with all the most reactionary speakers the UK has to offer fooling some left-wing speakers into thinking this is a debate rather than a way to make their extreme ideas seem part of the conversation...

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they do a kind of wooden rack thing which is like an adult version of those montessori toddler climbing frames and looks pretty fun

an exercise bike but design-led

what have i done to get advertised a design-led stationary penny farthing

A reminder that we did this.

(And had to pay Mirror Group Newspapers for the copyright of the text, one of the finest rights payments I’ve ever approved.)

FORTY SIX YEARS

oh WOW

The secret life of ciabatta So, there you are - Sicily, 1860, towards lunchtime. Garibaldi is heroically forging a modern democracy from blood, gunpowder and steel, but you're beginning to feel a bit peckish. Sod the Risorgiment...

surprising!

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this post has reminded me that ciabatta was invented in 1982 and introduced to the uk by marks and spencer in 1985

the beginnings of some magnolia flowers against a blue sky and a white building

it’s on its way!

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hon hon hon

fisherman’s friends georg

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is said to have used the product when her throat became strained from public speaking.[2] French president Emmanuel Macron uses them too: "He finds his energy in les Fisherman's, those lozenges which rip your throat out. He keeps them in his pockets and in the car-seats. When speaking publicly, he needs water, some slices of lemon and a small dish of Fisherman's. During the Presidential campaign, he was reported to have devoured crates of them, delivered to his campaign headquarters."[5]

emmanuel macron devouring fisherman’s friends by the crateful is a horrible image

is there a better feeling on the earth than skiving off work early on a friday to go to ikea and buy a lower tog duvet because spring has arrived

also ate rocket for the first time and fresh mozarella

but it wasn’t that thin or that crispy — i went backpacking in italy in maybe 2003 and was blown away by the pizzas