Laura Ashe

I wish this had a picture of Jilly Cooper. Missed opportunity there

I had to do a whole online course about ergonomic workplace health and I can tell you this is one of the pictures that's "wrong" (because of the height of the chair, curvature of the spine, and the relative position of eyes and laptop)

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

Epic; no notes

Not wanting kids has been possibly the single most emancipating thing in my life. Which is ... really very bad

Sunny view across the canal; blue canal boat; wild blue and yellow graffiti on the back of a garage; tower of St Barnabas' Church to the right, terraced houses to the left. Perfect reflection in the water

Excellent new graffiti in Jericho boatyard

Sunlit field surrounded by mature trees; cattle grazing

Christ Church meadow this morning

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Well I did cry all the way home and I have mentioned it to a lot of people... But I'M FINE 🤣

I sat through a whole Ford lecture on my work in which the lecturer glowingly name-checked about twenty people, but not me. I literally wrote the books on the topics she discussed.

I was once hungover at Heathrow, after an unplanned night of excess that included inexplicably watching the World Darts Championship. In the horrible pub in departures at 7am was the guy who came second, chain-downing pints of lager. I wanted to sympathize but I know nothing at all about darts so

In memoriam...

I'm in exactly the opposite situation (so at least some exciting new anatomical knowledge has resulted from this 🤣) but mostly I am baffled (not baffled) at men's need to specify how breasts are involved in a gesture that in no sense involves them

*also no need to specify*

Could someone explain to all male
authors that if a woman has her arms crossed there really is no, repeat no, need to specify that this is "under her breasts"

This is a very beautiful thread. The feeling of other minds.

An all time classic

A gorgeous apricot coloured cat appears to be asleep on top of a gorgeous brown cat who is looking at us with slightly panicky and pleading eyes

Merrill: "This is comfy"
Wyatt: "... help?"

Relatable

Phrases you didn't expect to need to use before owning a cat, no. 8537: "Why are you standing on the toaster?"

I'm standing on a street corner smiling; you can see it's a pretty narrow street with lovely old buildings above

Fun in Malaga

View over Calle Alcazabilla in Malaga from the rooftop of Hermandad del Sepulcro

The view you ideally want from your conference drinks reception

Morning view of the Alcazaba and Roman amphitheatre ruins beneath

Malaga was keeping it classy this morning

I'm sure this is cosy and it is also quite pretty but at first glance it does look like a knitted representation of some terrible body horror hand injury

Arrived in Madrid airport and have already witnessed my first potato-omelette-baguette of the visit. You have to admire it. I guess the Scots would deep-fry it but still

This reminds me of the post I once read on the hellsite saying that a woman walking home alone wearing a short skirt was 'like leaving the keys in your car for someone to take' and ....

I find it quite moving watching the cats try to eat crisps. We're talking about people who have no molars or cheeks but just soldier on

Hell yes

An apricot-coloured cat is bizarrely holding up a foot he was going to lick or something but has just surreally forgotten about. Seriously he held this for ten minutes

This is my foot.
Look at my foot. Not around my foot, just at my foot. Focus on my foot

A handsome slightly sinister-looking cat is bathed in sunlight as he stands over a window box of flowers. He looks like he might be planning a gangland killing

"It's very important to stop and smell the flowers before you destroy everything"

Quite. I'm always a bit shocked when people do the whole "you just end up taking it for granted don't you" schtick