A letter written by Jane Austen and her spectacles, British Library

Came for the writing desk but only got the spectacles

Depends who yer granda was!

Jeepers!

Get away! 😱🤭

I am still waiting for dispatch of my haunted tuning fork. Presumably it never made it past the sorting office before it took itself back to sender 🙄

A long shot but I have a ticket for sale to Fuzz Club festival in Eindhoven next weekend if anyone is interested? I can't make it for health reasons sadly. Will listen to offers!

Many happy returns Louise! 🥳

Dirtydog

Yesssss! #CatsAtPollingStations

Quadrangle at Queen's University Belfast: Cherry blossom, tulips, Victorian buildings, grey sky

Alternative view of QUB quadrangle: blossoms and grass

Here are some shots of QUB quad today. Looking pretty

Well, I did mean the dog, rather than the abbot, but yes I was surprised too!?

Goldfish with Cat, Matisse

Lulling you into a false sense of security

See, now this just consolidates his superiority complex. You may come home some day to find he has changed the locks!

I mean this with love, but that was probably the best thing about the Teams meeting for viewers!

I still think fondly of the time a St Bernard wandered across the table between the camera and the speaker on I call I was on 🤩

Uh oh

It's been intermittent for me today

a dog is laying on top of an air mattress in a living room . Alt: Cat destroying bed

Yeah, this:

He'd wanted the gaff to himself today

There's a silver lining there somewhere

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We had a mass exodus at noon, people running for buses in case they wouldn't get home. If folk would put this degree of enthusiasm into their work I'd be much more impressed

Yep, my experience has been similar in Belfast (altho observed as a pedestrian) and I concluded that a lot of people had opted not to take their cars into or around Belfast. Seems to be an urban/rural divide in terms of impact.

Btw that was a typo. Totally should have been tonally (now I don't know if that's even a word). Works either what, maybe.

Well, I hope things worth out advantageously and speedily for you.

My first cut as this was "Well, I hope you're happy now!" But it seemed totally problematic 🫣

Genuinely interested to know. Anyone in NI slowed down on their travels by a fuel.protest today?

I shall suggest that to her. Thanks

Yes, the protests in RoI were, when you scratched the surface, about little to do with cost of living and energy price rises.

You could help answer this for me (a wee distraction from your PhD 😁) is it worthwhile swinging by the British Library to see the Jane Austen writing desk? A friend wishes to do so but I am dubious of the worthiness. Any perspectives?

Who's going to notice traffic is slow on Westlink and at Sprucefield? 🤔

That said, there's so little the NI Executive can do about the issues giving rise to the protests it feels like the protestors may be wasting time, fuel, and other energy with this.