Sharon McGuinness

Celebrated pay day by going out out. Fantastic meal at the Merchants. That chef really is top notch.

There has never been a single occasion in my life where I have heard Somewhere In My Heart by Aztec Camera and not felt instantly happier.

Just been outside to put the bins away and brrrrrr! 🥶

Top of Blackpool Tower peeking out from behind some buildings against an early morning sky.

Guess where I was today!!

Murder rates plunge as more people stay at home Homicide rate is lowest since 1983 as decline in drunken nights out leads to drop in fatal stabbings

Britain must be broken if people can't even be bothered to go out for the evening and commit some murders. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

Now on the Blackpool train awaiting departure. Coffee is helping!

On the train at the time my alarm is usually just going off. I’m not sure I’m going to recover from this today! 😵‍💫

I mistyped an email sign off as “all the bees” instead of “all the best”. I reckon I’m going to stick with it. I can’t think of anything negative that can possibly come of wishing someone all the bees.

It’s a reminder of how completely unserious our nation is that we have a live illustration of where this leads in Minnesota and yet everyone pretends a Reform government is just an ok idea.

a medieval illustration of an anatomically accurate woodcock perched in the floral margins of a manuscript

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

Say what you will about Stalin, but he was a notorious stickler for a 24/7 pharmacist and ebike rental within walking distance

"I want everything to be an inconvenient distance away and I want to have to drive to get there," is a really weird hill to die on.
But hey, at least you're dead, I guess?

China plate holds a traditional Burns’ Supper of haggis, neeps and tatties. A wee dram sits in the background.

It’s ready. Sadly couldn’t find a piper at short notice so just had to carry it into the living room while humming a rousing chorus of Scotland the Brave… Anyway, slainte mhath!

A cooked haggis sitting on a white plate, waiting to be cut into with great ceremony for Burns’ Night.

Aw, look at its honest, sonsie face!

Burns’ Night supper prep well under way. Haggis is simmering, as is the base for the whisky cream sauce and the neeps and tatties are on the boil.

The media in the West are totally unprepared for full-on authoritarianism and a deluge of falsehoods. Can't handle it, don't know what to do.

It comes to something when you have to adjust your settings to avoid watching people literally being executed in the street.

If you haven't already, turn off autoplay NOW.

Watching the match. Under my glorious and (mostly) benevolent rule, drums will be banned from football stadia as the offensive weapons they undoubtedly are.

Two extra judicial killings starting to look like carelessness etc… What a fucking world.

In other news, nice craft fair in the Ashton Hall if any Lancaster folks are in town and feel inclined.

Sainsbury’s was testing its fire alarm system. For pretty much the entire time I was in there!! I’ll be hearing the same repeated phrase in my sleep.

This thread went from making me laugh to making me cry. But in a good way. It's lovely.

I am so so sorry to hear this. You’ll all be in my thoughts. x

Channel 4 quote posting their own post. Original post: "Because we did not win the BAFTA for best TV channel ever we have decided to try and claim ITV as ours." Quote post: "Update. The BBC has said they would give us one of their BAFTAs to calm us down."

Update from Channel 4:

Medieval jobs which no longer exist no. 43

Secretary to a celebrity ox who is writing his memoirs

Everyday photos of all of Paris from 1970. From the link below, click on any section of the city map. You'll then be given a choice of photos of that area taken in spring 1970 for a competition that aimed to create a comprehensive coverage of the entire city. A bit like Street View 1970!

Although I do think that if you are using your teeth to decorate then you are doing it wrong!! 😘

Perhaps he’d just taken it off?

To be fair I’d probably also sulk if I had to balance an enormous shoehorn on my head for hours at a time.