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Oooh no! Never fun. Did mine several times in my pro-wrestling days

Oh that is good. Have found Macmillan to be pretty universally helpful. I don't know if hospice care is more localised but that's always been helpful in my experience too

#TheFinalScatDown?

I am DONE with the dead white men with beards section of my reading! 🎉🎉🎉

"There are soiled sheets, unvoiced fears, missed doses of morphine. The hard truth, in short, about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have." Please read this piece:

Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.

I bet! I'm tempted

Instead of some proportion from much of the British media class, we are treated to the tragicomic absurdity of a former British prime minister willing to admonish the national broadcaster and demand the resignation of its Director General, all in the name of defending Donald Trump's reputation for truth-telling. But it's worse than that- it is a textbook example of how populists win. We have the ridiculous carnival of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, of all people, admonishing the BBC for its lack of integrity. And they can get away with it, because no-one expects anything from them and yet we expect everything from the people and places who actually give a damn.

This is a genuinely intolerable reality…

Omg that sounds fiendishly difficult!

I think, as an American who studied the speech to assess whether it constituted unlawful incitement, the BBC edit was poor journalistic form, but it did not convey something substantively different than reality. My thing? The apology doesn’t convey to me that the BBC gets Trump isn’t a fair broker.

Morning all

In bed 🥰 love that for me

Quite fancy being Norwegian. Or Scottish.

I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.

Also my sister's and I would get old Bunty and Mandy annuals by the dozen from school fayres and jumble sales. And Sunday! *Sindy

Oh I had Rupert annuals too! I loved how there was graduated levels of the story, the synopsis line at the top of the page, the rhymes under the pictures then the full paragraphs at the bottom. Very clever

Also, as an aside, the Tintins were a work of social history art. Every car, train, gun etc in them was meticulously copied from accurate existing machines

Y being the my little pony magazine, which he bought for me anyway 😂 also loved the Get along Gang, Misty, Twinkle, Beano and Dandy, Chips etc

Ugh, sorry you had that. In my house we all read everything, back of the cornflakes packet etc, I don't remember any explicit snobbery. My mum kept anything like that to herself, my dad might have had the odd murmur of if you spent as much effort on X as you did y...

@littlemavis.bsky.social sitting in a uni cafe eating a very juicy pear and guess what?! Found myself eating it from the top down to minimise ooze. That's why!

Oh very, a WEALTH of books at home and the library just down the road. Plus we were all bookworms, perfectly normal for us all to have our nose in a book at all times

I grew up on it at home. All the Astrix and the Tintins too

Didn't understand Getafix until years later when I was much older 😂

There are lots for me, probably because I'm dyslexic, but academic is getting me at the moment.bhave to check every single time that it isn't really two C's.

I wish I could read Asterix in french! There was a news item years ago about a student uncovering another layer of punnage in Asterix and Son (I think) that doesn't translate to the English. Something about gourd and the french for fool?

Grappling with taboo and contagion and transmission and scapegoating this morning folks #CosPlayingAsAnAcademic

Dark is best in my estimation but then I'm swayed by needing them to be milk free

Ooh yes, those too. I tend to make gingerbread stars and moons

Did u know?This is one of the most important organisms on earth - moss. It's amazing what it does to maintain healthy ecosystems. It minimises soil erosion; captures carbon; harbours tiny souls in its unique habitat & filters & purifies water & air in its dense structure - make room for moss. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🦠

Same, tho I still like using it to make treacle tart. Only tend to want those kinds of super sweet stodgy things in the winter, which is natural