Lyndsey Goddard

I get mine from Victoria's Cheese in Ely, who also stock Sassy Scones and do great cheeseboards.
www.victoriascheese.co.uk

I love that cheese...

It's all to do with the rights. Discovery+ have more cash so get to show the majority of the decent stuff.

Reminds me of the imp-powered devices on the Discworld...

Car crash PTSD left me unable to drive Drivers caught in accidents in Dorset and on M25 say suffering PTSD makes driving difficult.

Walking away from a high-speed RTA with one scratch from flying glass often indicates to others that you are ok. The mental effects are often not considered, but they are real. I found talking about it helps, but it took more than a year before I could do that.
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Here's two baby otters having a snooze. Enjoy!

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

also okay this is gonna be a Spicy Take but my view on Eugenie and Beatrice being in the files is not “what did they know how dare they we must hold them responsible as 19yr olds who were involved”

It’s

“man wtf did their parents do to them that we don’t know about”

£180 for all of the BBC's output? Yes please. I would rather fund ad-free British content than the tech bros' American streamers. And as I listen, read and watch primarily BBC content, £15 a month seems fair to me.

An interesting read, especially pp4-5

I am having to tell it to ignore more things. I've effectively built my own custom dictionary...

Especially irritating as most of these organisations have their own website, which they could update independently and share that link on socials. It's not like it's hard to update a website in this day and age.

This thread is a good breakdown of what the much-trumpeted Government AI courses actually are. Clearly no end-user testing of any of these materials, and they seem to be just more methods of getting your personal data. Don't waste your time.

This is the biggest targeted training programme since Harold Wilson started the Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills by 2030.

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

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Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

So ICE is now kidnapping children, and they're still not fascists or Nazis? It happened before. It was sanctioned by the state.
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Same fault with the temporary lights again! They were working at 5pm yesterday. This is beyond a joke. #Roadworks #CambridgeWaterCompany #Cambridgeshire #UselessUtilities

Yesterday we talked about how cervical screening is a really important tool in helping us to eliminate cervical cancer. Today we'd like to share a few tips about how to make your cervical screening experience as comfortable for you as possible...

2hrs to drive 15 miles to work today, due to faulty temporary lights in the next village. Utilities shouldn't be allowed to dig a hole, go away and leave their traffic lights constantly on red. Traffic chaos. Bad enough it's already a diversion route.

Listening to a discussion about AI in university education with Amol Rajan & Prof Duncan Iveston on Radio 4 Today. Too short to get into the nuance of course, but an observation that copilot can do a literate review for you very quickly perfectly illustrates one of my main concerns with AI…1/1

Great advice here from @humanists.uk
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Saw Hamnet on Saturday. The host at #EverymanCinema warned that it was a sad film, but that it was ok to cry. Definitely moments that tug at the heart strings, but as with many stories, what resonates is what you have personal experience of - this is how great cinema becomes great art. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

People get my name wrong all the time. Once spent a temp job being called the totally wrong name as the office manager introduced me incorrectly to other people and I was too young and surprised to correct her. Wouldn't do that now.

Sainsbury's Taste the Difference was too sweet for me. The John Lewis Vegan one was a bit dense (not enough rise). I like the standard Waitrose one and I am partial to the mini Crosta e Mollica ones you can get all year round. Still to taste the authentic Italian ones (have been saving them).

I have been taste testing panettone since December*. Only two left from my small tower of 6 large and 5 mini.
*This was an unscientific study to decide on the best panettone based on which I preferred eating, inspired by missing last year's 'panettone window'.

Satirical article from Private Eye 1662 (2025) with a picture of Gyles Brandreth having tea with Prunella Scales, published after her death. Text reads: "The Grim Brandreth caught on camera. For possibly the first time ever, the Grim Reaper has been snapped in the act of reaping or "having a cup of tea and a giggle", as Gyles Brandreth describes his modus operandi. Brandreth, wearing his trademark "pushing up the daisies" jumper, has been linked in the past to a number of high-profile celebrity fatalities, mysteriously appearing just before their sad passing. His victims have included Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Len Goodman, Prince Philip, Harry Secombe, Barry Humphreys, Rod Hull, Hinge or Bracket, and Jilly Cooper (see Private Eye issue 1660, The Pale Riders). But now, the late, great Prunella Scales has succumbed to the summoning of the spectral TV presenter and there is photographic evidence to prove it. Has Gyles Brandreth taken her on a final canal boat trip across the River Styx? And, now that Brandreth has been uncloaked, will elderly famous people see sense and avoid possible encounters, whether at the Oldie of the Year Awards, a visit to the Teddy Bear Museum or on the soon-to-be renamed Good Mourning, Britain? (To be continued...)

Indeed, especially due to his frequent appearances in Private Eye... the image below from issue 1662.

Evening by myself so had a rare solo cinema trip to see The Housemaid at the #EverymanCinema. Thought it was a really good adaptation of the book. Looking forward to Hamnet next week.

Haddenham Pantomime 2026, The Hunchback of Holy Trinity. 8-10 January 2026, Arkenstall Centre, Haddenham. Evenings at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Adults £7.50, Children 3-16 £6, Over 60s and Young Adults 17-21 £6.50. Buy tickets at www.haddenhampanto.org.uk. Haddenham Pantomime raises funds for the Arkenstall Centre, registered charity no. 300394.

On the home stretch for this year's Haddenham Pantomime. Come and see it if you're in East Cambs, 8-10 January. Fun for all the family, with great songs, terrible jokes and a heartwarming message of love for all. Tickets online or on the door.

The Wisbech embroiderer racing to recreate the Bayeux Tapestry Mia Hansson hopes to complete her replica by the time the original work returns to France.

Go Mia! Replica embroidery almost finished (with 13.7m to go)

The Wisbech embroiderer racing to recreate the Bayeux Tapestry - BBC News
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