Carol

The Evil Overlord and his minions 🤣

Bold of you to assume he can read...

A Canada Goose stands, bill fully extended to chest height on me, eyes a-bulge and appearing mostly snout due to the foregrounding of the bill in the camera's field of vue. It is clearly expecting food, willingly or unwillingly provided. There is definitely a Jurassic Park velociraptor vibe, the sense that while I'm locking gazes with this one, the other ones are picking my pocket and then waddling off to get french fries and ice cream from the nearby seaside diner.

When you're enjoying the big perennial border at Beacon Hill Park, suddenly get the feeling you're not alone, and turn around.
#canadageese #beaconhillpark #salishsea #birdwatching

Personal Space Goose 🤣

I've heard that the "pudding" in black/blood pudding derives from "boudin", a French word for sausage. It sounds a bit like pudding, I suppose, and I can see it getting mangled into that by non French speakers.

This always makes me smile!

Reminds me of how confused I got reading a fantasy book, where the wizard protagonist described his enemy as having his hands covered in something that "looked like black pudding". Took me a few minutes to realise he meant that custardy stuff that Americans call pudding and not blood sausage....

There are certainly people who call if afters though. It may be partly regional too - I mean, you can walk half a mile down the street in this country and that changes what they call a bread roll 🙃

Not fighting, just providing a contradictory data point. There are indeed people who call it afters, but I don't think it's quite as clear-cut as rich/working class. I suspect regional differences are also involved.

My family is not rich. We've always called it pudding.

As a Brit, I've always wondered what it is that happens to fruitcake in America that apparently renders it inedible.... 🤣

Oh lovely! Not a happy birdie, but beautiful just the same!

So delicate! They almost look like tiny parachutes more than wings!

The lesson you should be learning is not to enact transphobic policies that harm the people you're supposed to be representing.

He's hiring a ship
He's packing his cloak
He's moving to England
To follow some bloke
Dracula is coming to town

I never realised The Littlest Hobo was a German Shepherd as he doesn't look like the ones I'm familiar with. I wonder if he was an atypical individual, or if the breed has different characteristics in Canada🤔

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:

Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.

That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Cartoon. Dead Egyptian to Anubis: “Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it a weigh.”

It is Egyptologists’ favourite time of the year again.

Love the hairdo! 😀

There's a lot about the Cass Review that is unethical, one thing it got right though is the collation of evidence from patients records that showed very clearly that:

1. There is NO evidence that patients have been harmed by puberty blockers

2. Detransition rates are consistantly and EXTREMELY low

Egyptian Blue Bes ceramic Statue from the British museum shop, kind of looks like a tiny suspicious bear? He's adorable

A middle Egyptian turquoise hippo from the met. He looks despondent and adorable. He has line art of reeds painted on his back and face.

A ceramic baby rattle from the met shaped like a pig. However it doesn't look much like a pig, it's giving creature saying ooooooo. It's adorable.

Little red earthenware bowl from the met. It has two little humanoid feet on the bottom and looks like he's standing shyly. Adorable.

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

Love the hippo!

Two emus (large fluffy flightless birds) are standing one facing left, the other right, and the body of the left facing one obscures the body of the other, so that they look like one large four-legged animal with a head and long neck at each end, like the Pushmi-pullyu from the Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting.

Pushmi-pull-emu 😂 (Twycross Zoo, June 2014)

Hope they get to her soon and can do something helpful.

Amazon's gift suggestions include the innovative option of six bags of desiccated coconut.

On the plus side, it's something no-one else is likely to have got them.....

If he *had* been at the Somme, one way or another, he wouldn't be around to plague us now....

He's an overprivileged heartless bastard. Whether he's autistic or not has nothing to do with that.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten that! Bit ironic ☹️

I don't know how you feel about ebooks, but most of them let you change the font, and some have a supposedly dyslexic - friendly font (although it probably doesn't suit every dyslexic person).

Anyway, I hope she enjoys the book, in whatever form.

Robert Addie. Yes. I was quite keen on him when I was a silly teenager. (Now I'm just silly🤣)