Happy place!

The island of Copinsay in Orkney

The island of Alcatraz

Sean Connery in the film The Rock

A poster for the film The Rock

We are CLOSED on Monday 6th April for #EasterMonday.

This year the staff are all heading across to Copinsay lighthouse in speedboats for our annual reenactment of The Rock. It's my turn to be Sean Connery.

See you all when we've stopped Ed Harris and his men*

*next week

Happy Easter! 🐣

The online talk did get a lot of interest and was very lively so I am not surprised!

National Theatre to stream The Importance of Being Earnest for free Max Webster’s production was first seen in 2024

www.whatsonstage.com/news/nationa...

Today I went to a craft class and made a grumpy owl out of string.

A former boss set his to autodelete - "I am on holiday until XX. Your email has been deleted, please resend after that date if it is still applicable."

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather.

I’m sorry for not being up to date with your stressful events and I’m sending all my good wishes and crossed fingers now.

I am proud of me today.

Today I left my phone at the self service checkout and someone came running after me to give me it back. And the world still has nice people in it.

You’re very welcome! I hope you have a great day :-)

Very excited for a birthday outing to the chair museum tomorrow!

except Bill and Ted

I'm so sorry the integration sucks!

Hugs. I hope it’s delicious. And that your travels and visits go easy on you.

I work at polling centres on Election Day and we get very bored if everyone stays home. So please keep us nice and busy!

@ampage.bsky.social I feel you’ll know what this is :-)

How can we/ I help? I have plenty of time to offer.

Best wishes to all the chilly folk at home

Today was a free electricity hours day (my meter still shows what I used,I just get a rebate.)
laundry+drying x 3, baked, cooked rice, ot water for a long bath, I'm doing the cooker hood filters in the dishwashed. Still not going to get over £4.50 for the day. I feel like I didn't try hard enough.

That time of year again

I've had a really helpful and efficient interaction with HMRC. And my online record has changed from "not paid enough" to "we are updating your record". Hurrah!

"Crap in, crap out" feels the easiest way to explain teaching AIs by dataset. We are getting the thinking of the most stupid humans thrown back at us.

Today's wins
a) made edible vegetable based cake
b) someone else in my block seems to have taken on getting dumped furniture removed
c) my very smallest pension has a free financial advisor service to help me manage the next little while!
d) Evri driver found my flat.
e) cinema trip later

Yay!

Just sorting my to read list. Intrigued by this one.

How much does it take me to give up trying to get service from Apple? Six very polite but disempowered advisers and 100 minutes.

Your safety comes first. Always.

do you want me to bring a flask????

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.