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Kate Rusby: Christmas Is Merry Tour | Southbank Centre

Hi Blue Sky! Anyone in or near London fancy a ticket to Kate Rusby’s Christmas show this evening? One of our party is poorly alas :( (Ticket was £40)

Kate Rusby is a total delight, strong rec!

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/kat...

It's okay if you ask to keep the light on when dusk falls.
But we can't make it last. The light here doesn't last.

I hope it is a good time! And perhaps I’ll catch you another time that you’re down 🖤

I can help you get to Battersea Power Station on Thursday evening, if that helps? I work pretty close by and I'd be happy to see you to the right spot.

I have emotions about him! he's so brave, when he doesn't have to be, he doesn't know what's going on! he steps up!

I'm glad you enjoyed it, it's so good!

I’m at the Supreme Court today and enjoying each batch of tourists learn they can come in for free and go in anywhere they like

We just watched the 1954 one, and it was quite well lit, actually!

Huh.

you can def try, but I don't know if a workplace scenario is going to be very open to that - I feel like commercial, employment and charitable factors might all be in play

much, much empathy with this, urgh, when will reading come back from the war.

jesus fucking Christ. the Guides were a bullshit organisation when I was a child and I admired how much they'd changed. how diminishing and humiliating this is for everyone involved. my love to your girl.

oooh yes definitely

blorbo squared? or alternatively a second derivative of your blorbo?

hello so I know I said I'd never heard of this painting? poss true. but I've seen it! we used to go to Port Sunlight when I was small and go round the gallery, so it has definitely been in front of my eyes.

I agreed it *was* good enough for a girl, looked dippy, & asked anxiously if his son was feeling bad, now he'd been beaten in a safe seat in Romford by 30,000 votes and finally clocked he was the Conservatives' token brown candidate

the absolutely worst thing anyone has ever said in response to this was “oh, I suppose that’s good enough for you” but don’t worry I crushed him to a pulp

just striding out the door with my wristguards and water and skates, all ready for tonight's coaching session, I've managed to remember everything this time, I'm amazing, I'm incredible, I'm an hour and a half early cos I read the email wrong.

Zipcar are apparently planning to cease their UK operations, which is is how hard some assholes will try to avoid paying me what they owe me

I wondered if you'd thought about short-course education, summer schools, workshops, that you could do in the evenings or take a week of leave for, things like this:
www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/come...

www.city-academy.com/stand-up-com...

www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/writ...

I’m stuck on the northern line, like a fool, but more to follow!

I have an idea that might help with that, but I will share only if you actually do want advice on it, I understand if not

the love meme rides again gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

oh wow, "who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics" is in episode THREE. THREE. already greatness!!

it is! like, I'm on ep 3 right now, and it's all comedy bangers, and you can already see all the seeds of its depth and feeling, and, and and.

queer women, at that! Eleanor's eventual TGP arc is so magnificent, I'm really curious as to what Carol's might eventually be!

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

I'm rewatching The Good Place, which I think is the best tv show of the last, idk, two decades, and seeing a resonance with Pluribus.

oooh! I wonder if festive rinks tend to be like that cos they have to sharpen their skates as they open for business.

it looks lovely and bright! we need to think about festive ice rinking generally, I feel.