There's a hot chocolate cafe coming to town soon and I absolutely cannot wait. Will gladly part with some hard earned cash.

Neil Dusheiko Architects extends Cambridgeshire home to frame neighbouring church:
www.dezeen.com/2026/04/21/neil-dusheiko...

Seem to be going through one of those phases where everything is turning to shit. People and things not turning up, being scammed, let down, not paid. Crazy.

What a vile person you are.

It probably just means the same as the 90s definition. Things are a bit more lax these days, including the law.

My generation now have total dependence on mobile phones. It's quite scary really. Thankfully my kid hates living life through a screen.

I expect this is what they're proposing. It wouldn't be safe to allow young girls and to some extent young boys to travel to and from school without any way of contacting people in an emergency.

The school has to have emergency contact details anyway. I'm thinking about smaller schools though. Might be more difficult for bigger ones.

What's wrong with doing it via the school office though?

Isn't it. Feel sad for her son though. Completely alone and in a work house at 5. Likely shipped off to Australia or India. Heartbreaking.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

One of the biggest problems with the education system IMO (alongside funding, which ruins everything when there's not enough of it) is that it's designed to produce obedient workers, not well rounded people.
Critical thinking skills in particular are ignored, while research skills are undervalued.

A fascinating read.

bsky.app/profile/alex...

Nice idea though.

Look at that tail 😍❤️ love how happy you make these dogs after they've had such difficult lives. Amazing work.

That time I went on a really cool work trip

Kicked off and made a fool of myself over a minor issue last week but finally got an acceptable response. This is why people behave like dickheads in real life. Still I intend to avoid doing it again in future if at all possible.

Meme triptych of Duke Leto and Paul Atreides Text: We must not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Why not? Because people are fucking idiots, Paul. They're just... incredibly stupid.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

So next time you think about running from the authorities just don't bother. Is there some simple way to evade them I wonder. Like daleks before they got the use of stairs upgrade.

Someone needs to put this on a billboard in Westminster

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
~ Anaïs Nin

The Blue Door (1927)
🎨 Raymond Wintz

That's certainly the impression it's giving

Discovered I had about 40 eggs yesterday (oops) so having scrambled eggs, birchall decaffeinated tea, and watching Secret Garden feat. Sir David Attenborough this morning. Peak middle age ❤️

GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach After a long decline, the number of pupils taking language GCSEs in Wales rises for two years.

Good news about language learning! It's almost like linguistic anthropology.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

Remembering the time I was excluded from an ex partner's brother's wedding photos because no one wants permanent memories of a one-time girlfriend, but a couple of years after we broke up the wife had an affair and left the brother. She was a complete bitch but the hypocrisy fascinates me.

Irish food security exposed as 'shockingly insecure' by Iran war Close to 80% of Ireland's fruit and vegetables are imported from overseas, leaving Irish food security vulnerable to global events.

This explains it in a bit more detail
www.newstalk.com/news/food-se...

I was surprised at this considering Ireland's history "an agricultural sector that runs on dirty fuel and relies on imported animal feed and fertiliser, exporting 90% of what it produces, while importing 83% of what the country consumes."