It’s natal not Natal

No. Anti rather than ante.

More furious discussion at my anti-natal class last week about the spelling and whether I should even be there, given my views.

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I’m 62.

Cartoon. Two men shaking hands, one is saying to the other “Ah, Mr Featherstonehaugh! I'm so glad this is written as I have no idea how to pronounce your name.”

Saw an ad for a Reform candidate that said he had ‘lived locally for 50 years’. We all live locally, surely?

Photo of an abandoned colourful party hat lying on a pavement

Evidence here of a recent outbreak of fun

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Ah, that’s lovely. The face! 😊

In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.

The big reveal at the end of The Office (UK) is that it had been a romcom all along. A perfect example of @gralefrit.bsky.social’s distinction between plot and story. It’s the central thing we care about that drives our interest. That’s the story. The plot is the vehicle that gets us there.

Joan Bakewell

Box of Lidl Aromata Non-Stick Baking Paper Sheets. Along the top edge of the box are the words 'Perfect baking results' (in quotes, as presented here).

Going to ask Lidl what their source is for this quote of praise on their non-stick baking sheets. Colm Tóibín or Stephen Fry, I expect.

I'm going to open an aviary specialising in one type of bird only - just for larks!

Meant to post this with an image but unfortunately bluesky kind if disappeared just as I was compiling it.

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I left my home near Clitheroe to look for work and I'm so homesick. I was looking for a job and then I found a job and, heavens knows, I miss Ribble now.

I love Angela Smyth’s illustrations and if you can afford it I think her original works are great value. www.angelasmythart.co.uk

"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, an air freshener and a tin of sardines"

Simon & Garfunkel, the online shop item replacement version

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The combination of joy and relief in #13 is perfection.

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Technical drawing of some sort of motor with a numbered key. The key says: 1 erm.. 2 no, no idea 3 the spindle? 4 a nut 5 a sort of screw 6 don't know 7 you got me 8 same as 7 9 ditto 10 the end bit 11 bobby davro 12 spindle again? 13 propellor! 14 curvy triangle 15 round bit 16 big round bit 17 see above 18 the sheath 19 another nut 20 a bolt 21 a gasket 22 too small to see 23 the helment 24 lost that bit That's the lot.

Technical drawing

Ah, lovely :)

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Drawing of two small figures standing bottom left with luggage looking at a pile of buildings on spindly legs. Caption: WE PLANNED TO RUN AWAY FROM THE CITY BUT IN THE END THE CITY RAN AWAY FROM US

We planned to run away from the city but in the end the city ran away from us

It’s a lovely little church, beloved by architects for pulling off the trick of fitting itself onto an awkward site without compromising its integrity.

I was just pleased to see his tumblr post was still up there. And that he called me a twitter celebrity ;)

He actually did this fairly early on, there were loads more. I asked people to tell me their word and where they heard it so he was able to map them.