I had such a lovely time, and it was a joy to meet you!

For those who read and review books on
@netgalley.bsky.social, 'My Name is MacKenzie Bly' (out in Hardback/Kindle/Audio at the end of August) is now available. netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

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Bought it for my husband last year, but haven't read it myself yet...

I haven’t read that one - on the list it goes!

Can also be used as an alum key.

Right, I'm going to partially rescind, with apologies. The accusation was apparently about the initial bit - the bit about the utter chaos of the American advance - which Lewis may or may not have witnessed in the detail given in the book.

I read a piece on it saying that his ‘diaries’ for the period consisted of a very few scribbled lines. Will try and find it for you (I still adore the book - often quote the ‘uncle from Rome’ bit)

Such an incredible, vivid book - though I was a bit disconcerted to find out that it’s on the…er… *fictional* side.

Yes, it's astonishing, isn't it. I saw her in the library once, and did a bit of a fangirl. She was very gracious...

She's a brilliant writer.
I'm not at all jealous.

‘Just stay still for a moment’ I said, and she did.

The only trouble with this analogy is that Golden Retrievers are lovely when in their usual milieu. Perhaps if you made a Death Eater the general manager of an Arby's....

Wonderful (free!) exhibition of Home Front paintings & drawings at the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth. New to me was this painting by Colin Moss of camouflaged cooling towers - a camouflage he helped to design, with the ideas first built as scale models & then tested on a turntable.

Thank you!!! 😁

Ha!!

Yes, agreed. Almost *too* good - leaves no room for anything more than pain….

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Thank you. Phone cameras are astonishing things, even ones on phones so old that your children laugh at them...

Everything looks newly-painted, possibly by pixies.

Apparently it's Mediterranean and first arrived here in the 17th century, possibly hitching a lift on imported Italian statues!!

Ivy leaved toadflax. There’s a wonderful bit in the Attenborough series on plants which shows how it ‘climbs’ the wall, reaching up and planting its seeds in cracks.
I also found a lovely little article online about it, from @sussexwildlife.bsky.social: sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/species... -

The pee samples - which still go on - are for drugs testing, and nothing to do with sex in sports.

'Jinx. No returns': The TRA version of a rational discussion.

One time cheek swab. Markedly less prurient and invasive than the witnessed pee samples given over and over again by all top class athletes.

Can we get to 4000 followers before our birthday on Sunday?

Can you help us to help fill ears with quiet rather than noise.

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Fantastic sketch. Fantastic actress.

An ancient mosaic showing a bear, walking from left to right across a plain white background. The bear's limbs are somewhat elongated and he wears a rather world-weary expression.

It's World Bear Day, so here's a bear who's had it with all this.
#MosaicMonday

RIP brilliant actress and voice artist Sally Grace. A mainstay of Week Ending for years, her Margaret Thatcher was definitive. As 'Elena" in my production of Dirk Gently II, 'The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul" she had crew and cast, including Harry Enfield and Michael Fenton Stevens, in stitches.

Oh no!! I've just seen this. Oh, she was lovely - not only talented, but extremely nice, and a joy to work with. Yes, her Thatcher was incomparable.