Oh this news has given me a real pep in my step! 🥔🥔🥔

We missed you! But please don’t be sorry, there is definitely no obligation. I’m looking forward to hearing about your visit to the gem show though ☺️💎

Today in things that really did happen, I see the orange menace has just tweeted that Aberdeen should be booming 😂.

Totally relatable.

Tulips at Kew

A very cool tree at Kew

More tulips!

Fan leaves in the Palm House at Kew

Yes indeed! I love Kew so much, and used to go there often when I lived in West London. Since I moved east I haven't gone in a few years, so dragged a friend (actually she was delighted, she is a botany queen) and went. We're going to get memberships so we can go back often, we have decided.

I sort of assumed they were all over LA, but I didn't know they had made it over to the UK yet. I hate everything about them.

What a lovely way to set those carved roses.

A driverless taxi with all sorts of weird things attached to it to monitor everything around it.

I saw my first waymo in London today. Do not like!

The fake pockets make me so cross! GIVE US THE POCKETS WE DESERVE YOU BUGGERS!

I went to the botanic gardens today, and took about a million photos - it was life restoring! I'll share some here when I get a chance. Yours, as always, are beautiful 😍

Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.

Aaaaand @raygunsite.com has shirts. www.raygunsite.com/collections/...

Beautiful!

We need outtakes again. Outtakes would heal. More TV and movie outtakes on the regular please

A theatre programme for the play Copenhagen.

Also, as I’m prone to do when in desperate need for distraction from the world, I spent some time at the theatre. Love love love Richard Schiff, this is the 3rd time I’ve seen him in a show, across 2 continents. This was an excellent, timely production #MakeTheatreNotWar

Clearly I chose a good day to avoid the news.

Blue poppies (that are actually purple).

I spent the day taking pictures of trees and flowers. My heart is so full. Look at these Himalayan poppy beauties! 💜🌷

Y'all when I say I thought this could not get funnier... h/t @sarahkelly.bsky.social

The treetop walk at Kew Gardens

I appear to be quite high.

I’m on a train and there is a lady nearby who is wearing a perfume that takes me right back to my favourite aunt who I haven’t seen in years. Isn’t smell a funny thing.

My favourite Samuel Beckett fact: Beckett used to drive André René Roussimoff aka Andre the Giant, who played Fezzick in The Princess Bride, to school, and they talked about cricket on the way.

It's actually good when people online refer to figures they don't like as "fat fucks" or insults about their body type rather than their character, because it lets me know they'd quietly think the same about me and those with a similar body to me if we ever met in person, which means we never will.

Wait. Are we not in this sim alteady? #HowsItGoingToEnd

A thatched roof with 2 chimney pots. Atop the roof, instead of the usual duck or pheasant made of thatch, there stands a majestic T-rex

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

It was a lovely read! I hope more people get to enjoy it, I know I have a few followers who will be interested.

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This is the bees knees.

Backyard astronomer who helped to discover 100 distant planets awarded medal From a backyard observatory in regional Victoria, Gippsland astronomer Chris Stockdale spends his nights helping confirm distant planets by tracking tiny changes in starlight that reveal new worlds be...

Imagine doing this with your time when you could be on the couch watching sport?

Remember when he was asked what his fave Bible quote was, and he said: “all of them”? Clearly that’s because he wrote it

Fozzie Wars! Oz v Brandreth - the full story — GYLES BRANDRETH Wow!  What a forty-eight hours this has been!  “Fozzie Wars”.  “Fozziegate”.  “Fisticuffs in Fozzie country’.  “Madness in Muppetland”.  The Twittersphere has been erupti...

I just googled to make sure I had the story right, and yes it did happen! www.gylesbrandreth.net/blog/2018/8/...