Lovely Norman ❤

"Why nobody ask for a free book Mr Harry?"

"I just don't know Stouffer"

Schmitten a light brown cat with green eyes looking doleful with arms crossed

Oscar tuxedo cat witting on bed with a pole is use for physical therapy

Current status: waiting for me to sit, guarding a stick

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Does he look like David Mitchell up the street? Or is it a very good impersonation?

Farewell Giles Peaker, you changed my life for the better - HQN I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Giles Peaker this week. Updates to the ‘Nearly Legal’ blog often brought with them a twinge of excitement but

Another personal testament of the very real difference Giles aka En Els @nearlylegal.co.uk made to people's lives. From HQN/the Housing Quality Newsletter?

Farewell Giles Peaker, you changed my life for the better - HQN share.google/onLOBd28QNfN...

And - an excellent indicator of a good egg - he liked cats.

And wols.

We would message each other cat and wol posts whenever we saw good ones (they were always good ones).

Giles co-authored the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act with Justin, and I was delighted to work with him on other projects too. I was, frankly, terrified of Giles’ razor-sharp intelligence but soothed by his kindness and great good humour. God, we will miss him.

Giles Peaker's corner Giles Peaker is a partner at Anthony Gold. His day-to-day work is representing tenants. But he is famous for something else: blogging. Laurna Robertson meets the man behind Nearly Legal

Anyway, here's a bit from 2014 in which my former colleague Laurna captures him (in my view) pretty well: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/gile...

Photo of six empty teabag with paintings of a fruit on each one including a plumb, orange and lemon

Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bags #Womensart

A TRIBUTE TO GILES PEAKER: “NEARLY LEGAL” – AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN WITH EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS I was distressed to read the news that the extraordinary talented Giles Peaker passed away last weekend. The news can be found on his blog “Nearly Legal”  which includes tribute from hi…

www.civillitigationbrief.com/2026/04/20/a...

That’s a terrible shame. He always went to great lengths to explain complex legal situations in normal person language, and was very much on the side of whichever party wasn’t a big piece of shit.

Same.

It's a testament to En Els how many non-lawyers are posting to acknowledge how kind and helpful Giles had been to them individually, both here and on the site formerly known as the twitters.

"Damn!", as he'd (and my mum used to) say, in an often restrained understatement.

Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Photo from my collection, writing on the back says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

The cover of a jigsaw box. The illustration is made up of 18 different ladybird illustrations, some cover pictures and some internal pictures, all featuring young children or toddlers.

A family friend found this vintage Ladybird 1000-piece jigsaw in a charity shop and gave it to me.

Isn’t is a thing of beauty?

Such very very sad news.

Giles was so generous with his time and information, and patiently signposted me several times when I worked with families who would often have housing issues as well as needing help with benefits - he will be much missed.

This is awful news. One of the original legal bloggers and one of the very best. nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

Vivid dreams. Woke wit blood pounding in my ears.

Disoriented oh I'm NOT moving into student figs for my post grad course and I do NOT have a southern drawl and I am NOT the ethnicity my dream told me

Instantly thought of numerous puddings. As did almost everybody else, it seems 🤷‍♀️

Nightingale on a branch, which is covered with lichen. It's in a tree, and singing. It has mid-brown wings and back, and a pale smooth chest with a slightly darker and rougher bib. the bright orange beak is wide open.

Male nightingales produce over 1,000 different sounds to attract a mate.

Catch the performance in Essex now—after they find "the one," they go silent for the rest of the season

eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Did Ryan Sampson base his characterisation of Mr Collins on the physical mannerisms of David Mitchell? #TheOtherBennetSister

Oh. Three. Oh oh

Perched on top of those compost bags, looking out of the window like a cat that has decided it now owns this store... I thought the same.

Otter caught by vets after Closeburn garden centre 'break-in' A fishing net had to be used to capture the

It's going to do it again, isn't it?

BBC News - Otter caught by vets after Closeburn garden centre 'break-in' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Right then. For no particular reason, other than I want to and I have time on my hands this evening: The Top Ten Looney Tunes Cartoons, as voted for by me. The list will gradually appear under this post...

Me and Jackie-next-door decided, as we watched some busy birds from the semi-hide of her front porch this afternoon, that there is likely a number of hatchlings.

Realised as i did the washing up this morning the back Robin was doing a LOT of flying onto the garden obelisk but facing the kitchen window. Once it got my attention it was giving some VERY pointed stares at me so I took the hint and went out to fill 2 of the 5 empty sunflower heart feeders.

it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

Reading Alan Bennett's latest book, Enough Said. This is from January 2019. Even then, we knew how dangerous the orange creature was. It's far, far worse now, of course. Why on earth did that give him a second chance??

Alfie Boe sounding distinctly Johnny Cashesque on #LooseEnds #BBCRadio4