The Other Sarah 🇨🇦🧶⛵️📖

I agree with both! When did she become so … so … helicopter-ish? He doesn’t need her to go to his therapy appt. He already said he would walk; it sounds like she wants to go in with him, make sure he says the “right” things. And walking is good - a good displacement activity to let off steam.

We can’t always prevent the worst, but we can decide who we are when it happens. #tumblerridge

🇺🇸 response is probably “oh, another shooting, shame, thoughts and prayers.
How about them Seahawks?” So yeah, it probably doesn’t even register with the current occupant of the White House. ~~end~~

Unfortunately, in 🇺🇸 it’s “just another Tuesday”, and will probably used by 2A gun nuts as “proof” that gun controls don’t work. (Mind you, those same gun nuts aren’t using their guns to defend against a tyrannical govt, so they kinda ceded their ground.) 2/3

I am struck by the outpouring of condolences, globally and locally, for #TumblerRidge. It shows how unusual this is recognized to be in Canada.

I hear that the local RCMP entered the school quickly (unlike #Uvalde). Bravo and thank you. 1/3

So maybe Amber’s bonkers dad bonked George on the head because George was bonking Amber? #TheArchers

I’m British, and I always knew what was in my parents’ wills, and the pertinent part of my uncle’s. (Come to think of it, I don’t know what’s in my sister’s.) My Cdn hub and SIL knew what was in their parents’ wills. (But we don’t know his sister’s.) OTOH, we haven’t shared our wills, so 🤷🏼‍♀️

The rot set in with that female vicar (/sarcasm, eyeroll). And the current one rides a motorbike (gasp) and is married to a heathen (swoon).

Someone was told to provide a counterpoint to all the positive coverage last month. Pearls need to be clutched about something, and it’s #TheArchers turn

3/3 How will George screw up this time? He has form in screw-ups: he shows maturity/kindness/niceness one day, then does something stupid/selfish/misguided (viz framing Alice, or when he thinks he’s being helpful, e.g. post-box fire) the next. Maybe £ for the wedding will trigger it. #TheArchers

2/3 will S&P get married same weekend as G&A? Will A think she should get the wedding #TheArchers can afford, rather than one the Grundys can afford? Will she accept ££ from the Gordons to pay for it? Will George?

Thoughts on #TheArchers:
1/2 something will come up on Friday to cause Ruth’s reservation to be missed; Dave will say, “nm, we’ll go tomorrow, I have reservation”; R tearfully admits she cancelled his reservation

Not so much a *forgotten* cabinet, but it has long been rumoured that index cards fall down the back of the filing cabinet, only to be fished out, covered in dust and cobwebs, whenever a keen new janitor comes in and does a deep clean #TheArchers

My employer’s CyberSecurity team sent out a red warning notice about this a couple days ago, before I heard anything about it online or on the radio. I finally heard a piece about it on NPR today, and I thought, “oh, so that’s what it is … that’s weird … that is scary shit… that’s No. Just. No.”

I have *got* to stop opening Bluesky before listening to the day’s #TheArchers episode 😣

That’s only because you don’t follow @juliethecranky.bsky.social

Given that his past is not exactly blameless, he just didn’t get nicked. #TheArchers
Good for Esme standing up to him. J’s “why pay him when I can do it” implying “for free” is not good business practice. E would be right to think that J would want some of quid pro quo, which is dearer than cash.

Amber’s maths is not good: it’s less than six weeks since Christmas Eve, not “um, about 8 weeks”.
Yes, I know doctors count pregnancy weeks differently, but she knows when they “started trying”. (I’m still clinging to my Irish one-night-stand theory.) #TheArchers

Just a few weeks ago Amazon was saying that AI wouldn’t take any jobs, they would gradually downsize through attrition. Layoffs ≠ attrition.

Of course, these 30K layoffs *might* not be attributable to AI, but I can’t see them laying off that many warehouse workers without it.

I learnt in the 1960s that only hydrofluoric acid can dissolve gold. (I don’t know about newer compounds.)
Industrial applications: gold shields the windows of the RBC tower in Toronto from the sun (or so we were told when it was built), as are astronauts’ visors. And of course it rarely depreciates

@mattgalloway.bsky.social, you asked your guest *why* is gold so desirable. The simple answer is that it is almost indestructible, and the densest metal. Small amounts (by volume) are easily transported, hence its predominance throughout history in adornments.

Philistine Action? I mean, maybe, but I can’t see Lynda supporting philistines. Did you mean Palestine Action?
#TheArchers

I only know that it was a donor - the circumstances happened before I returned to Ambridge. 🤷🏼‍♀️
I liked Harry …

My goodness, you want the whole SL mapped out in 280 characters? I didn’t say he would know he had a child or would be looking for it. He could be a Guinness salesman, with an uncanny likeness to the boy (who necessarily doesn’t take after G or B). What’s one more contrived plot in #TheArchers?

I think Amber got knocked up in Ireland, and seduced George on Christmas to try to cover. She’ll claim it’s his, G will think it’s Brad’s, and 10 years from now some Paddy will show up with incontrovertible proof of paternity. #TheArchers

I also think Harry was Henry’s father.

Agree - the semi-transparent app icons, notifications etc are so hard to read now. And I don’t have any eye diseases like cataracts etc. Hate the update already, without even launching any apps.

Just updated to iOS26.2 and I have a question for Apple:
Was the *intent* to make the Home Screen and lock screen harder to read, or is that just an *unintended* consequence?

Well, on the other hand, how many Minnesotans are actually talking to him? Six? Also he’s Fox News, of course he’s only going to hear from hardcore MAGA

Be careful out there

Mike Tucker moved to Birmingham, and disappeared off the face of the earth! If you can’t see it from the top of Lakey Hill, it doesn’t exist. #TheArchers

“You can say Yes, and we’ll be very grateful; you can say No and we’ll … remember.”

Who said it?
- Vito Corleone
-Tony Soprano
- the 47th US president