Very much so.

Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone. BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya... 2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs. 3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again? 4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.] PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility 5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…? PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre. 6 [Vicky pauses, trying to take this in]. VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs. 7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name? BECKY: Becky PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky - 8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here - TEENAGE BOY: Muuum… 9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too! 10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival! 11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…? PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky. 12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4? TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM [Ends]

Happy Ēostre!

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Operation Norwegian Blue. 👏👏

Rich Kanin cartoon. Two men stand on a rug by a wall with two animal heads mounted on it. They look down at a snake, also mounted on the wall, but sticking straight out at waist level like a limbo pole. One of them says “If I had to do it over, I'd mount the python higher on the wall.”

Threads is weird, but some good cartoons get posted there (this one’s by Rich Kanin)

And who would’ve thought? It figures.

Spotted. 😁

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Tim Finn nailing it today. “Caught up in the spirit of the times we’re going through.”

Northern Sky

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This is so beautiful.🥹

Common Peephole     She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldn’t stop it.   That’s when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston

Pulp poetry.

Nobody mixes sex, weather, and volcano metaphors better than Neil Finn.

Oh, the grand old duke of york
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Bohemian Like You

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Am I too old to play air drums on the bus?
😁😁😁

In Love With It All

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Hitting the spot this morning.

A bit of Ziggy this morning I think.🎸

A view of a graveyard with mostly stone crosses, but with a solid tombstone to the right. The ground is covered with yellow flowers in the foreground, and shite flowers in the background.

Happy #Imbolc to those who celebrate!
We've reached the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Here, a profusion of snowdrops and aconites at St Botolph's Churchyard in Swyncombe, in the #Chilterns, UK.
#WildFlowerHour
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Suburbs but it’s Norfolk so it’s still quite rural. There’s a park near us so we get a lot of over spill birds. Yourself?

The wrens and dunnocks are singing too. Spring starts earlier than you think. 🪻

Yay!!

We are back and we can reveal that the album we are talking about in episode 5 of our podcast is ‘Casanova’ by @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social !!

Publishing this weekend 👍

Spread the word!!

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It’s one of the bone chillingly grey days when all colours are muted but there were blackbirds singing in the garden today. 🌱

Everybody knows that no means yes,
Just like glasses come free on the NHS……😃

A baby penguin in profile partly concealed behind a rock. It is moulting its downy feathers and is now almost entirely what you would expect an adult penguin to look like, but smaller. A clump of down remains, though, but is all on top of the penguin’s head, and looks like a beret

Facebook memories reminded me this morning of the penguin that moulted to become French

Just passed the solstice and into the light we go.

English tree bud illustrations

For the eternal optimists it’s the first day of summer tomorrow 🥳🌳

Crowded House hitting hard today. ‘Get to know the feeling of liberation and release’.
Don’t Dream It’s Over.

It makes me think of sleep paralysis. I’ve never had it myself but I hear it can be terrifying.

I think of this song when I can’t sleep.
‘ Just one more chime on the clock. ‘

It was the song that got me into them. I bought Woodface, went to see them and the rest is history. 🎸

A boy listens intently to an album on a record player while in outline beside him we see an aeroplane, lorry and motorbike

Ladybird wisdom, 1975

“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”

(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)