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In France “Pierre has entered the chat” is a matter for their version of the RSPCA

I have a long history of sporting humiliations behind me but having to allow another family to play through us at crazy golf is a new low

Stop what you are doing right now and play Just Be Simple, possibly one of the best songs ever

Ha, indeed. It’s a thing of pure beauty.

What a treat, and yes I looked him up and what a tragedy.

Thank you, Bryan. I’ll seek out those covers asap, sounds awesome,

Great noted, thank you. I’m going all in on all of his work.

And you’re usually correct by the sound of it.

Brilliant thank you James! I’ll get on that - much appreciated.

It’s just beautiful. Can’t stop listening to it, god knows how I’ve missed it until now.

YES. Thanks Andrew, hope you’re well. x

Magnolia Electric Co. (Deluxe Edition) Songs: Ohia · Album · 2003 · 19 songs

A link would help, I guess. open.spotify.com/album/5MqGZZ... Enjoy. x

The sleeve art for Electric Magnolia Co by Songs: Ohia - Jason Molina

Forgive me, I can’t remember who, but someone recommended this recently and one of the replies called it possibly the best album ever. I’d never heard of it (or Songs: Ohia at all, somehow) but holy sweet Jesus they were right. Doing my civic duty by passing the recommendation on.

A beautiful gag from the end of The Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld. “He’s moving out of the country. Moving to Argentina!”

I think this is my favourite throwaway gag ever, blink and you’ll miss it magic.

Let’s make it happen!

Sky Sports headlines suggesting Jake Paul wants to fight Anthony Joshua and, erm, Joey Essex

some people might think Sky Sports leading with Jake Paul’s next opponent being maybe Anthony Joshua but also maybe Joey Essex could mean boxing is becoming an absolute clown show but no not me let’s go for it sounds great

somebody told me dogs have no sense of time so does that mean my dog thinks I’ve been gone for months when I’ve popped to the shops or that he won’t notice while I’m away on holiday and please just say the latter to make me feel better

A bot saying “nice chatting with you. Bye!” in response to me pointing out they’ve booked the wrong dates for some dinner reservations.

Just used a bot to make some holiday dinner reservations and somehow they’ve booked them all for October not August. Got to admire the sassiness here though.

The most underrated thing about holidays is that laundry gets exciting. Ooh I’ll wear that for dinner on the Tuesday night, can’t wait to wash and iron it.

A fun game you can play in the school holidays is working out exactly which international time zone your children have inexplicably moved into.

Wait… did they … find a way???

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A Sky Sports headline in which Andy Farrell says the Lions “found a way” to win.

It’s no longer acceptable to simply say “well we scored more points than the other team, which is of course the sole objective.” You need the mystery and intrigue of “finding a way.”

A green owl looking horrified with the number 148 next to it

me looking in the mirror and realising how old I am

Imagine seeing a few rainbows and thinking that’s it I’m joining the Russian military.

Imagine telling your kids. “The good news is no more of that silly gay nonsense. The bad news… well you might want to sit down for the bad news.”

The main difference between the two Live Aid concerts is that the Wembley crew was all white men called Geoff whereas the Philadelphia crew was all white men called Jeff.

People wonder why the BBC only showed Live Aid on BBC2, but what nobody remembers now is that there was an all-day concert on BBC1 raising money to make the famine much worse, for balance.

There is something so fundamentally telling with people who think that “reading a book” and “knowing what the plot is” is the same experience.

My son proudly announcing he’s spent nearly all of his school trip budget on expensive smell-nice 🙄

My son has gone on a week-long trip to France with a school-approved budget of €120 and spent €94 on duty-free fragrance before he’s even left the country. Great stuff.

I Set Up A Write-In In My Hometown. Here Are 5 Things It’s Taught Me | Andrea Mann For just over a year now, twice a month, every month, I plonk myself down at a big table in a cafe in my hometown at 10am and stay there for two hours. The reason I always bagsy a big table – and why ...

Last year, I started a regular 'Write-In' in a cafe in my hometown. It's brought me so much joy and connection (and cake). So I wrote about it. www.andreamann.com/blog/i-set-u...