Yellow rice with raisins. Always the raisins are the problem. I like bobotie if the raisins are removed.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II would have been 100 years old today. In honour of this occasion I've been keeping a set of old stamps, and I shall spend the day gently licking the back of her face.

I do like the linguistic equilibrium which sees all the 'T's dropped by cockneys turn up at the beginning of words in Yorkshire.

We should collect all the extraneous esses used at the end of Tesco in Britain and send them to the USA to be used at the end of math.

Headline: "The power of verbs (and why you should never use an adverb)", but I've crossed out the adverb "never"

Well OK, if you insist

If ever something illustrated that outrage and awareness are not enough, then Israel's genocidal war on Palestine and now Lebanon, and the US-Israeli war with Iran are it. Someone needs to DO something. I just don't know what.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Arc de Trumpty Dumpty.

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

This was drummed into us in journalism school. Drives me bats when people use it to deny something.

I worked till 1.30am, slept with both dogs in the bed (which I never do) and then started again at 6.30am.

1. Do not do this. It is not a good idea.
2. I have a dentist's appointment later. Wondering if I can fall asleep in the chair undetected.

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Exactly!

It's a thing!

I fail to understand why everyone my age looks so old.

And someone else: Grok, is this true?

I would very much like it to be 10.30pm instead of 5.30pm, because by then I will be in bed and I can try again tomorrow. Today has not been fun and I still have commitments tonight. 😭

Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate…

CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly?
DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to
CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion?
DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

Friday night is clean sheets night. It's the small things.

Every bloody time!

Even as we speak, someone is writing a terrible novel called The Straight of Shore Mews about a heterosexual who moves into a street where everyone else is gay. We must find this person and encourage them.

Fat banana feet... Can't remember the rest!

You make me think of my (Afrikaans) dad, who loved to refer to any child with skinny legs as "spykerbeentjies).

I can't watch and I also can't look away.

It was always going to.

UK humor >>>>>>>>> US humor.

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

Trump just openly stating his intention to commit genocide at this point: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

so my cousin was anxious enough at her 1st colonoscopy to get the Special Meds in her IV - as she emphasized at great length just now, when she told me she woke up hollering in a nurse’s face TO WHOM MUST I SPEAK TO BE CLEARED FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITY?! for what turned out to be the 3rd time

Just took something out to the bins and heard the sounds of a couple getting married at one of my neighbours' homes. What a lovely little moment; so unexpected.

A list of two dollar words and their monosyllabic counterparts. Did you see what I did there? * facilitate ease, help factor reason, cause failed to didn't fatuous numbskull jerk feasible can be done females women final last

I found a style guide for writing from the air force academy officer training program while cleaning out some folders. It’s decades old, encourages simple language, like not using “fatuous numbskull” when “jerk” will do