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What a week, huh? Captain, itβs Tuesday
02.12.2025 15:51 β π 478 π 85 π¬ 5 π 2
Beware of making yourself a nuisance by a doleful expression. When you enter a room, people should feel as if a gleam of sunshine had been let into it.
02.12.2025 20:59 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 3 π 2
This was a fantastic sight, but rather awful.
02.12.2025 10:40 β π 112 π 11 π¬ 8 π 0Midge free holiday
Boom tish
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It is sad that by your persistent idleness and throwing away of the advantages afforded you at her cost, you should disappoint and even anger your mother.
02.12.2025 21:36 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 7 π 1
βWell, it just sort of wriggled its way up the beach, grabbed Jonathan, and dragged him back again. I mean, the poor thing must have been half-starved!β
βWell, it just sort of wriggled its way up the beach, grabbed Jonathan, and dragged him back again. I mean, the poor thing must have been half-starved!β
02.12.2025 20:05 β π 121 π 18 π¬ 0 π 1
Cartoon of two men standing amongst some flowers that are groing out of the ground. One is saying to the other "Malapropisms are spreading like wildflower".
02.12.2025 11:01 β π 269 π 44 π¬ 6 π 3
Department of War
youtu.be/mn5AU-k8cfE?...
Metro review of Funny Girl β close-up on pullout quote, which reads: Sheridan Smithβs Fanny brims with self-belief
And a very happy 10th anniversary of the opening night of Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory in south London, a production which gave rise to one of the best pull quotes ever seen by human eyes
02.12.2025 09:40 β π 75 π 22 π¬ 3 π 2
Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of a boy running as fast as he can to escape a ram that is chasing him.
Absquatulate [ab-SKWAH-chyuh-leyt]
(v.)
- To leave abruptly; abscond or run off.
- To get out of Dodge; to Bug out; G.T.F.O.
Used in a sentence:
βThe rapidly approaching sirens of the local constabulary were all the motivation Mortimer required to absquatulate post haste.β
this is awesome
01.12.2025 23:30 β π 32 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1
βEgad! Itβs those weird possums from across town! β¦ Everyone fake like youβre dead.β
βEgad! Itβs those weird possums from across town! β¦ Everyone fake like youβre dead.β
01.12.2025 17:06 β π 137 π 19 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy Antarctica Day! π
1 December is the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959.
Australia was one of 12 original signatories to the Treaty, which established #Antarctica as a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science".
We well know our answers often speak volumes to those for whom they were not written, and bring them comfort and counsel.
29.11.2025 18:16 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 10 π 2
'Cliffs, South Stack, Anglesey.' The darkness implicit in so many of Kyffin Williams's mountain landscapes was a facet of his own make-up. He recognised in it the Celtic tendency to melancholy and that a certain despair and gloom were the logical sequel to his epileptic seizures.
30.11.2025 21:50 β π 165 π 26 π¬ 2 π 1But suspiciously long arm
30.11.2025 21:40 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away β€οΈs, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
30.11.2025 17:58 β π 26 π 15 π¬ 44 π 17
βOur party is called your party? Thatβs not on.β
βNo, itβs our party but weβre called your party.β
βBut I donβt want it to be my party. I want it to be our party.β
βBut it is your party.β
Now is the winter
Richard III [I, 1] #ShakespeareSundayβοΈ
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30.11.2025 19:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ It's St Andrew's Day today - patron saint of Scotland, portrayed in Dunblane Cathedral First World War Memorial Windows in Chapter House, by Douglas Strachan, made 1924
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Doctor Who is coming to Wales. The Timelord has many talents and one it appears is rock βnβ roll
30.11.2025 14:30 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0π
30.11.2025 17:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Quiet piggy
30.11.2025 17:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0'Entry (Packmoor)'
Mixed media collage on Paper
Private Collection.
Illustration + Cover for 'Ballad of the Streets'
by @daveproudlove.bsky.social
www.barewall.co.uk/products/bal...
Less curiously futuristic, more pragmatic light source mebbe? Now if it was stained β¦ how about, say, bobbing daffs on a green hillside against a deep blue sky
Lovely to let the mind wander on such a dreich and dour November.
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