Laura Brenchley

My 6yo son's finished form, including a description of the tooth loss - "I was eating Cheerios and then bye bye tooth" - a drawing of said incident, and a wildly generous claim that his tooth was white rather than a slightly yellower shade.

"I was eating Cheerios and then bye bye tooth"
- my son, to government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Watching Only Connect and had a feeling of extreme smugness when I could answer a question on the second tile that both teams and my husband could not and then Victoria described it as one of the most difficult questions all series 😎 (being a film geek helped!)

that slime at the bottom of your trash can that a bunch of rubes made president again blurped this: The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn't the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!

he seems to have forgotten he doesn’t have to yell questions from the cheap seats anymore. he can actually get the answers.

Please sign this petition - we can’t lose the PCC!

Also I’ve promised that I will (eventually) take the teenager to see their traditional New Years Eve screening of When Harry Met Sally.. and I don’t want to let him down 😂

Hugely enjoyable thread for those of a certain age

(Nearly) five years on from the start of the mayhem, some of the lessons of the pandemic have inevitably been forgotten. The importance of catering for disabled and vulnerable people is one that really, really shouldn’t be.

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

Happy 25th Anniversary to those who remember...

Holy shit. This is really something. I’m not kidding.

Never watched an episode of Gavin & Stacey until the finale tonight, which I started watching out of curiosity. However, I totally got the characters straight away - surely the sign of a well written show - and really enjoyed it! With that and Wallace & Gromit it’s been a really good night of telly

You know your kids are getting grown up when (a) you don’t have to watch the CBeebies Xmas Panto and (b) when you end up watching a bit of the CBeebies Xmas Panto on tv, you don’t recognise anyone taking part (well, apart from Justin, obvs)

Se7en is a Christmas movie because people talk about the Bible and Brad Pitt gets a present at the end.

Family trip to see Wicked this afternoon! It’s a very impressive film with fantastic costumes & sets and there are amazing performances all round, it really develops the characterisations from the show. It’s long but Defying Gravity at the end makes it all worthwhile!

It was an early morning viewing of Moana 2 for us today which meant it was fairly lively with small children!
The film itself is great, not as good as the original & the songs are definitely not as memorable but the animation is beautiful & its an engaging story with fun characters, I enjoyed it!

Meanwhile, is there anything weirder than seeing a concert or event you were actually at being represented in a movie? Makes me feel old 😉

What it doesn’t seem to show in the Better Man trailer is how bloody hot it was that weekend at Knebworth - it was absolutely sweltering!!

Teenage son has been watching the trailer for Better Man, the Robbie Williams movie.
Have we got any of his music? he asks.
Hmm, might be able to help you out there kid. Shall I dig out my RW Knebworth T-shirt too while I’m at it?

Last minute homework panic at 8.30pm - I remember when that used to mean writing a short essay on a scruffy piece of paper, now it’s constructing and emailing a PowerPoint presentation!

After a brief dip in here a year ago, I’ve wandered back this week and it’s proving to be really quite nice seeing posts from so many I used to follow. I may lurk a while longer…

Cinema this morning to see Trolls Band Together. It’s very busy and I don’t think my coffee was strong enough to deal with it - it felt like being hit round the head with a glitter ball! A bit sequel-by-numbers and probably my least favourite of the three Trolls films

Is this thing on?