Sue Morris

A window vacuum cleaner that sucks up the condensation. It's brilliant.

Gloriously bonkers. I loved it!

Yay Lydia!!

Includes an article by me on the Broadcast Engineering Museum in Hemswell Cliff in Lincolnshire!

Includes an article by me on the Broadcast Engineering Museum in Hemswell Cliff in Lincolnshire!

Does anyone else remember that TV drama/documentary with Juliet Stevenson as a mother who was convinced her child's autism was caused by the vaccine, and Hugh Bonneville as Dr Wakefield who believed her when no-one else would? Played very much as the hero against the system.

In the supermarket yesterday it struck me that there was more shelf space devoted to varieties of 'milk' than there was for tea bags.

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

If you're a non-trans woman in UK, who doesn't think banning trans ppl from toilets helps with *any* of the issues currently facing women (e.g. attempts to prosecute women who have had miscarriages for suspected illegal abortions) you might want to read and sign this petition:

chng.it/2S8LWjCjr8

Shout-out to the woman in the pub who asked for a bottle of wine, and when the waitress brought it to the table and asked how many glasses were needed, laughed and said she only used the one.
Madam, I salute you🍷

It's not letting me message you.

Absolutely!

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square. Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

‘Sobbing over semolina’: Your school dinner memories You share your memories of old favourites like jam roly-poly and the foods that made you 'gag'.

I vividly remember 'chocolate concrete' served at school in Birmingham in the 1970s/80s. So hard it had to sit in custard for several minutes before you could get your spoon through it.

BBC News - ‘Sobbing over semolina’: Your school dinner memories - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My favourite genres are:

1) Beardy men with swords take absolutely no shit

2) Affectionate bickering

3) Baddie finally discovers a tiny shred of decency; kind-hearted hero can be startlingly ruthless

4) Overlooked side character steps up and does something awesome

5) Things get tense on a boat

I was reminded today that there are things I love and thoroughly enjoy which some other people - thoughtful, smart, good-hearted people - detest with a passion. And probably vice versa.
And at the end of the day it really doesn't matter. There should be room enough for all of us.

Blake's 7

I didn't vote for him/his party back in the day, but now as an elder statesman he's really come into his own. Bracing moral clarity.

Former PM John Major pulling no punches in his interview with Jim Naughtie on R4 this lunchtime. A clear-eyed assessment of just how dangerous the current international political situation is re the US and Ukraine, and how people need to step up.

The writing always has to do the heavy lifting, but getting the casting right is what elevates it to the next level.

I also particularly liked Ema Horvath as Elendil's daughter Earien.

My crush on Elendil remains unabated, but Robert Aramayo as Elrond has developed into a character with real presence and heft.

I'm glad LOTR:The Rings of Power has got a third season. It's not perfect - at one point I was distracted pondering just how long it would actually take a dwarf to walk from Khazad-dum to Eregion and back again - but then what is?

Anyway, stories are powerful.

Its exploration of a range of reactions to a growing threat of impending disaster is actually really interesting. Well-meaning people being manipulated into making poor decisions. Short term expediency over long term gain. Fatalism against determinism. All juicy stuff.

I'm part way through LOTR:The Rings of Power series 2, and now the possibility of Captain Elendil being lined up to be given one of the nine rings is starting to worry me...

In the 1970s, the Royal Navy created a canal fleet consisting of narrow boats designed to resemble a County-class destroyer, a Type 42 destroyer, a Leander-class frigate, and a Resolution-class sub. The fleet toured England as part of a recruiting campaign.
#WarshipWednesday

A page from the Lincolnshire Echo newspaper dated Thursday January 23, 2025. The entire page is an article with the title 'Talent Spotting - Debut authors to look out for this year, by Hannah Stephenson'. It lists a number of books with a short description of each one.

Image of a book cover accompanied by text: PAGANS By James Alistair Henry (Moonflower Publishing, February 27) The writer of hit comedies including Green Wing, Smack The Pony and Shaun The Sheep as well as cult favourites The Delivery Man, Piglets and Campus, brings us his first novel, set in an alternative 21st-century Britain inhabited by an uneasy alliance of pagan tribes. Supermarket warpaint sales are at an all-time high and mead abuse is shortening many lives. Amid this febrile atmosphere, a serial killer is on the loose, and the brutal murder of a diplomat has drawn the attention of two mismatched police detectives from very different backgrounds. The book has already drawn comparisons to Terry Pratchett and is currently optioned for a major Apple TV+ series.

Hey @jamesbluecat.bsky.social you're in our local paper!

One of my ancestors served in the far East during the opium wars. His ship was HMS Clown.

A young woman wearing a hand-knitted cardigan, scarf and tam (an over sized beret) knitted to 1910s patterns

Once upon a time, when Twitter wasn’t utterly toxic (about eleven years ago) I tweeted for a volunteer knitter for a community WWI film project. The tweet went viral, and in an hour I had 400 volunteers and wool donated. Completely unexpected and joyous. #fashionhistory 1/