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My younger brother was given a wurzel gummidge doll with removable heads when he was little. He was terrified of it

Can confirm it is delicious! 😊

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Hmm, because it’s glittery I wouldn’t use a very fancy pen, but a kaweco sport or Lamy safari work well. It’s quite a pale purple, looks darker in the bottle. Paper-wise, Tomoe river or Leuchturm are really good but not v cheap 😅

A hand holding the decorative box of Ferris Wheel Press’s ‘Purple Jade Rabbit’ fountain pen ink.

A glass bottle of lavender ish purple ink with silver sparkles in, standing in front of the open box it came from on a dark wooden surface.

One of my many, many bottles of purple ink for use in fountain pens. ‘Purple Jade Rabbit’ by Ferris Wheel Press #sundaypixpurple

Large round allium flowers in our garden back in 2023 (they came up blind every year since) #sundaypixpurple

Floor length medieval ish looking purple dress with gold embellishments on a mannequin in a museum display case, next to a small photograph of the actress Constance Benson

Purple and pink dress worn by Constance Benson as Lady Macbeth in 1903 (seen in the museum at Stratford upon Avon) #sundaypixpurple

Purple folded paper dodecahedron about twice the size of a tennis ball, with a little purple gift bag inside.

A purple glittery papercraft dodecahedron with a gift inside that mum made me years ago for my birthday, pic is old and not as vibrant as the real thing was, even though I’ve upped the saturation #sundaypixpurple

Metallic purple leather satchel from the Zatchels company

My big purple satchel, which is several years old now (pic is from when it was new). I don’t use it much these days cos even when empty it’s pretty heavy, but I love it. #sundaypixpurple

Laundry detergent these days is strong enough to knock you over at 100 paces!

Neighbours have hung out washing that smells so strongly of detergent we have to keep doors and windows closed to stave off an asthma attack! Surely ‘scent boosters’ that strong can only be compensating for the fact the clothes aren’t getting properly clean underneath? #smellpollution

The orange underside and spotted yellow abdomen of a Jersey Tiger moth seen through a window

Black and cream striped folded wings of a Jersey Tiger moth resting on a wooden gate

Jersey Tiger moth fluttering in my garden this evening, a pretty large one!

Evening primrose, a close up of a bright yellow bud starting to unfurl amidst green leaves and more buds to follow in the coming days

The evening primrose that has seeded itself in a pavement crevice by my back door, starting to open it’s flowers for the night

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No thunderstorm here overnight as far as I know, sadly, but it is so nice to wake up to the sound of proper rain after such a dry few months (so tempted to put a ‘tiny joys’ hashtag here purely because that one annoys my mother when she sees it 😄)

Oh no! I never did get round to trying that! 😔

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cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows: [Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them] 1 TOWER FAN 1: Right lads, get ready. 2 TOWER FAN 1: This is our time. 3 TOWER FAN 1: The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here. 4 TOWER FAN 1: We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft, and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever. 5 TOWER FAN 1: I know what you’re thinking, lads: 6 TOWER FAN 1: Surely this will be the year they finally replace us? 7 TOWER FAN 1: Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018... 8 TOWER FAN 1: Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… TOWER FAN 2: Cheers mate 9 TOWER FAN 1: But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists. By the time they remember, new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon. 10 TOWER FAN 1: So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out... 11 TOWER FAN 1: ...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than. 12 [The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder] PERSON: APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA

british fan chat

Not sure about the jazzy Christmas tunes playing in Costa this lunchtime 😂

Cover of the novel (novella?) ‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop’ by Satoshi Yagisawa. There’s an illustration of a bookshop exterior with a cat in the doorway and silhouettes of customers inside

Finished my train book, ‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop’ which I enjoyed, but still have an hour to go on this leg of the journey. Sadly at night staring at the countryside through the window just means looking at my own reflection, which is much less interesting

An orange cat curled up asleep in a tight ball on his human’s lap

The inevitable circular cat photo #sundaypixcircle

A photograph of large circular waterlilies in one of the greenhouses at Kew Gardens

Waterlillies at Kew Gardens last June #sundaypixcircle

Photo of two chocolate sardines lying in a tin, top to tail.

Picking at Christmas chocolate today, time to open the tin of traditional (in our house) chocolate sardines!

It’s Lord of the Rings Meme Sunday!

#LordOfTheRings #meme

A brindle cat perched on a tiny purple beanbag cushion, on a blanket covered sofa. She is staring as if to say “wot u looking at?!”

Calliope doesn’t really fit, but she’s gonna sit anyway!

Introduce yourself as a television character

Ugh, back spasms are the worst. Ow ow ow 😖

Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. This is a short compilation of her work!