Fretful Porpentine

Please let me know when you identify a funding stream.

I’m reclaiming whippets, ferrets, and flat caps.

As a northerner, may I say I love the whippet.

In less heartwarming news, today I was told by an 8 year old to “stop being silly”. Swings and roundabouts.

(In fairness, I was being silly.)

"what socials can I find you on these days?"

Philip Larkin #botd 1922.
“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”

Two things that would combat the rise of the racist right:

A speedy, significant rise in the living standards of the poor and the struggling middle.

Education

Paid for by the redistribution of wealth.

Hahaha! Exactly.

Me in bed (wearing a Strawberry Switchblade t-shirt, pop pickers) with Agatha (tabby and white cat) lying on my chest with her foot up my nose. I am v squashed with about seventeen double chins.

Happy International Cat Day

I know! I love how it sounded *furtive*

A lovely moment earlier when two 10 year olds rocked up together and asked "is it ok for us to just come in?" and said they'd heard (“from Jacob Walker”) they could become members for free. Reader, I made those kids more welcome than a Capri-Sun on a hot summer’s day.

Yes, he’s very mean, generally. Less forgiving than Kim Jong Il.

A grey sign with white writing stands in front of an old tree. The sign reads: I am very old and need to rest. Please don't sit on me

Just another relatable National Trust sign

Credits for the Joan Hickson Miss Marple with a picture of the aforementioned

Please put this on a t-shirt for me.

🫡

👎🏻

They are. Expensive, too. Please steal one for me.

I love her.

A photo of a carousel horse - behold the gaudy filigree and lurid colouring of this specimen named "Lightning"

Human artistic endeavour peaked with the unfathomable maximalism of the carousel horse. It's been downhill ever since.

THEY’VE GOT THE TOM RAFFIELD LAMPSHADES I WANT

Hahaha! 😬

VERY

Very Superman II and III

Toad dances on the stage, a marvelous performer. From "The Dream" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Frog, can you be as wonderful as this?” said Toad as he danced all over the stage.

There was no answer.

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1973: Life on the LAST LIGHTHOUSE | Tuesday Documentary | World of Work | BBC Archive

Thanks all who recommended this 1973 BBC doc on the Bishops Rock Lighthouse & the men stationed there. Beautifully shot, elegantly unwinding, the characters of the keepers coming across in such a subtle way (as ever, why can’t we have telly like this any more?)

youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

She does love an arachnid snach.

She’s pretending she doesn’t know what I’m talking about.

Haha, of course!

Yes and yes (but also no thank you)

*what