While I understand the health motivation for this, and I really do, I remain deeply uncomfortable about the idea that we can create a subsidiary group of adults who don’t have all the same freedoms as other adults (yes, even to chose to do stupid dangerous shit). 1/2
My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.
it doesn’t work in Much Ado About Nothing only because everything Beatrice and Benedick say already has an implicit “bitch” at the start
“What, my dear Lady Disdain? Bitch, are you yet living?”
“Bitch, I would eat his heart in the marketplace”
Many years ago I used to mix up Portsmouth with Plymouth. They were just on the south coast
I don’t think that Starmer should resign because of what he said to Parliament about vetting. But if he can't appoint a team that can deliver, and if he continues to believe that problems are of everyone else’s making, it does seem he might not be in the right job.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
My mind is blown. £2.8m for a 5-bed semi-detached house on the major arterial road through our village, anyone? A study in grey with (what looks like) astroturf.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
photo of a hand holding a small sticker sheet that is all black except for cat shapes with eyes
void sticker sheet
get it here: mcapriglione.art
While not EVERY psych symptom or sudden medical issue for an elderly person is a UTI
SO MANY TIMES something wonky is going on with a person over 65 yo - it turns out to be a UTI
this is important because UTI's can cause a lot of big problems
this is something not talked about enough, I think
A young human (9?) is on a mission.
Striding purposefully through the markets.
Caring not for the sploosh of puddles underfoot.
Reaching a fruit and vegetable seller and saying: "Uhm do you have any more figs? Dad ate ours before we got to the car and Mum needs more." (4)
Small beer glass with Pils.
Pils at Attic Brewery in Bournville. Catching up with family on way home from Hereford #ConfinedCocktails
An historic tram being moved though a very large doorway into a large space in a modern building
I successfully specified quite a large loading bay.
So no, he wasn't struck off for asking a Muslim woman to remove her veil.
He was struck off for multiple counts of serious misconduct, including lying during an official investigation, followed by working 17 times while suspended, and THEN refusing to engage with the GMC about returning to work
We loved it. The guide I talked to was really informative
If one of my party's recent prime ministers had redecorated the Number 10 flat in a way that ended up involving TWO separate inquiries and a Wikipedia page, I would simply not have put out a press release confirming that the current prime minister had spent less than the allowance he was given.
I wonder if you could do a Titanic film that was actually about Captain Rostron and the Carpathia (would be a great one for fans of competency pron, and Rostron deserves to be better known).
It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.
Was great to see our old friend Patagotitan juxtaposed with the awesome Norman architecture of Peterborough Cathedral at the grand opening of the Titanosaur exhibition last night
A Clanger in a tutu as a Christmas decoration
Still miss her
Playmobil mounted Roman scout on a rockery.
Some people get fairies down the bottom of the garden, I get bloody Exploratores.
Best to be vigilant at this time of year. Killing them (or catching them & dumping them in a neighbour’s garden) can help prevent larger infestations.
#PlaymobilInfestation
Wishing you the best for the future
Cartoon by Jim Shoenbill. Four penguins, perching on a telegraph wire high above the ground. Caption: "And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?'"
Monday.
Also, this is why I have absolutely no time for people online who say you can't be queer and Religious/Christian.
This is the kind of thing that rhetoric enables, and it's actively harming vulnerable people in real life. Just because you can't be queer and religious, doesn't mean other people can't
It is absolutely incredible that HMRC thought (and still thinks) that it is acceptable to tell every sole trader in the country that they have to file digitally, but that HMRC isn't providing any means to do, that you probably need to get some software from somewhere, and that it sucks to be you.
A man wrapped in blankets sitting on a balcony. A dog lies on a dog bed alongside him, also wrapped in blankets.
MrJaf wanted to sit on the balcony but it's cold so he's blanket wrapped. The dug cannot leave him unsupervised so he's also out there, on his bed and blanket wrapped too.
What country are you in?
Me: Selects Belgium from the drop down list
Enter your postcode
This is not a valid postcode.
Me: Retries x3 then deletes code.
This is a required field. Please enter postcode.
Me: Buys nothing and leaves
Then there's the one where it says "enter a valid postcode" because their form allows autofill to add an unnecessary space after the code.
In fairness, it has improved. In the early days these postcode searches and address finders would reject ours because there's only one house in it.
A large, brick building with narrow, long windows above the entrance. The building is surmounted by two massive white chimneys
Had a lovely day today with @clairemargaret.bsky.social, elephant spotting at Battersea Power Station!
One big duck plus eight small ducks waddling across my patio. The temerity.
So this is how it ends. Assailed by ducks on my own patio.
