I am going to save this, to comfort me in knowing I'm not alone!!! *hug*

...and for the can of Static Guard to become a hair finishing product...

Clearly the only proper method to interpret information is to consult the #cat...

Mine have tons of toys as well, but go bonkers for Q-tips. No washcloth antics, but they also love throwing my knitting around... 🤣

Hey there! Have been off for a bit but wanted to be sure to "stop by" and say hello. Enjoy the lovely weather - those days are special! It should be nice here today, too - maybe will commute with the top down...

Liverpool Champs again

Hee!!!! I've delved around in my ancestry a bit, some semi-notable stuff but what I love most are the ancestors like stagecoach drivers and tugboat captains. Amazing to wonder what their lives were like, and how things ultimately led to us. Enjoy!!

Sometimes they have full UK WDYTYA eps on their YouTube channel...

Ugh. Having a similar sort of night w/not sleeping. If you open the toilet tank top, the chain might have come loose from the handle (ours does that a lot - it's old) or worst case could shut off the water valve to the tank until you get the plumber. Good luck & hoping for some Zzzzs!

I can't wait - it makes evening commutes home so much nicer...

This is why vampires shouldn’t fall asleep on park benches and lose track of the time.

I get that way on some pieces, too - even if they should be straightforward. Putting it aside helps get a fresh perspective on it; the more I work things if frustrated, the more mistakes I make and...yeah...

"The UK is a nation of animal lovers and so its people need a national animal to love; it's been my privilege to fill that furry brief for 14 years and counting." #Larryversary

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

I'm happy to sample the test batches... #nomnom

A "cannot put it down" book, read while snuggled on a comfy sofa, with a cup of tea and biscuits on the side table, snow softly falling outside, the fireplace going, and the dog/cats dozing in various spots around the room...

I thought "Good Thing," by the Fine Young Cannibals, was actually "Fruitcake." The song goes "Good Thing, where have you gone?" And I thought it was "Fruitcake! What have you done?"
Okay.
Just wanted to get that off my chest.

Happy New Year, Megan!!! Wishing you a 2025 with much health, happiness, love and lazy hurkle durkle mornings!!

Mo Salah!! #LFC - show him the money!!!

Just a touch of fog at the Liverpool Leicester game

View of NYC from across the Hudson River.

I actually like going to the office over the holidays. About 1/3 less traffic, can play music without disturbing my neighbors, have meeting-free concentrated drafting time and can still take stretch breaks to appreciate the view... #NYC #photography

It says way more about them than it does you. Happy Christmas to you & Debra, my friend!!

Ooh, mince pies...yum! Dropping a less than subtle hint here for my Brit better half @jv0.bsky.social, who makes excellent ones...

A volunteer warden leaning against his favourite pig, Babe, in a green field, on Bally Quintin Farm, Northern Ireland

East Front of Llanerchaeron, near Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales. A large yellow house featuring a prominent white door, set against a clear sky.

The exterior of White Edge Lodge, Derbyshire. A solitary house surrounded by a vibrant field of purple flowers, and dramatic dark clouds, creating a picturesque rural landscape.

A brown and white Shetland Pony looks at the camera in a green field on the side of Arnside Knott, Cumbria

For no reason whatsoever, here are four pictures from our image bank that could be album covers. 🎧

Thank you! It's a great album if you haven't checked it out yet...

An empty street lined with bare trees, blanketed in dark fog.

Perfect weather to listen to the Cure's "Songs of a Lost World" on the AM commute... #photography #winter #fog #alternativemusic #trees

We tried. I'd rather watch another season of Eureka, TBH. I don't think they wrecked enough Jeeps...

Hi there!!!! 👋 🥰🥰

A soft sided cat house shaped like a ball in the background. A cat is in it, with its face poking out of the entrance staring at the camera. Cat toy in foreground.

On virtual jury duty today, but I'm the one being judged... #cats 🐱

On an AA flight that landed at JFK waiting for a gate. Two littles were crying because of their ear pain on landing. After a couple minutes the flight attendant started singing *Twinkle Twinkle little star’, the entire plane joined in, the kids stopped crying, and this is the world I wanna live in.