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Found this little fellow drying its wings after rain outside my house today

Fantastic! I’ll be with you in spirit!!

Hurrah! 💃

I’m so happy for you!

YouTube video by CrazyFunnyStuffCFS Cats Who Desperately Want to Come Inside

This is how I feel about not being able to try to get tickets for the BTS tour because of my caring responsibilities…

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YouTube video by GLFolkLink 2023-12-03 Windborne - Welcome in Another Year

Perfect song for New Year's eve

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Screenshot of a 2013 Night Vale tweet saying “Get the body you’ve always wanted. We know where it’s buried and can lend you a shovel.”

It’s the time of year when my news app is full of diet plans. I thought fondly of this old quote

Photograph of shelves in my local Poundland store with chocolate Easter eggs. Today is 27 December.

They already have Easter eggs on the shelves in Poundland…

Cambridge's robotic bins that moved and 'chuckled' The bins were accompanied by benches that would pair up together

This made me laugh today. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history...

Today's haiku inspired by cleaning a huge paper lampshade from my mother's room, on the front doorstep

Moon paper lantern
I shake the dust in the breeze
Snow falls on the steps

It may be a blessing that age verification by facial scan does not tell me what they estimate my incredibly ancient age to be….😹

Ah, LiveJournal, those were the days. I downloaded my whole journal into a pdf when the Russians took it over.

Late at night when your heart is hollow there is nothing better than a sour dough toastie with melted cheese.

Namjoon and Hobi looking cosy on a sofa, dressed in dark silks.

Sometimes my phone throws random photos from my files at me. This was today’s.

Photo of a cat sitting on a ledge half way up a window looking out at the rain. It appears to be levitating!

Next door's cat appears to be levitating looking at the rain...

Text of a letter written in 1820 by Sydney Smith to a friend giving advice on how to overcome low spirits: Dear Lady Georgiana, Nobody has suffered more from low spirits than I have done-so I feel for you. 1st. Live as well as you dare. 2nd. Go into the shower-bath with a small quantity of water at a temperature low enough to give you a slight sensation of cold, 75° or 80° 3rd. Amusing books. 4th. Short views of human life-not further than dinner or tea. 5th. Be as busy as you can. 6th. See as much as you can of those friends who respect and like you. 7th. And of those acquaintances who amuse you. 8th. Make no secret of low spirits to your friends, but talk of them freely-they are always worse for dignified concealment. 9th. Attend to the effects tea and coffee produce upon you. 10th. Compare your lot with that of other people. 11th. Don't expect too much from human life-a sorry business at the best. 12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion not ending in active benevolence. 13th. Do good, and endeavour to please everybody of every degree. 14th. Be as much as you can in the open air without fatigue. 15th. Make the room where you commonly sit, gay and pleasant. 16th. Struggle by little and little against idleness. 17th. Don't be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice. 18th. Keep good blazing fires. 19th. Be firm and constant in the exercise of rational religion. 20th. Believe me, dear Georgiana, your devoted servant, Sydney Smith.

As the winter takes hold I am fortified by this. Not sure about no.19 for me personally but I definitely agree with no. 4.

Very good

Today's haiku:

Winter, potatoes
Frying on the hob sing and
Cackle like spring birds

Olympic Park velodrome reflects 'fireworks as farts' Clips of the phenomenon have gone viral on social media after it was shared to TikTok.

This made me laugh, a lot.
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Understandable! Treat her kindly! It will settle down.

It’s hard to figure these things out. Sending you a virtual hug and if I could, the way my garden smells in the evening, soft rain, apples, and a distant autumn bonfire.

Exterior of a house decorated for Halloween with a skeleton in the window, giant spider on the wall, pumpkins amd fake cobwebs over their railings.

Some of our neighbours have really gone to town with their Halloween decorations this year!

I don't think he was expecting a grey haired old lady to like a Korean band. "Look them up!" I said.

Car dealer guy was intrigued by the BTS CDs in my car. "Have you met them?" He asked. "Are you mad?" I said. "They are the biggest band on the planet, that is like asking if you've met Taylor Swift!"

I sold my old car this weekend. Now mum is very frail I hardly leave the house at all. First time in 35 years I have been without a car! Strangely liberating.

UK's first portal opening in Ipswich TODAY The UK's first portal, which is only the fifth portal worldwide, is opening in Ipswich Cornhill today.

www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2555593...

What a marvellous thing!

Five small jars of homemade quince jam on my kitchen table

Quince jam. It takes a lot of effort to make but tastes amazing!

I find when I am particularly stressed that I can only bear to read stories, watch films, read emails that I have read before so there are no surprises.

Photo of a perfume sample from the Royal Academy of Arts London described as “evoking a wood panelled room, infused with a century and a half of subtle laughter and rich tobacco smoke, dressed up for the evening with abundant Indian tuberose flowers that create an irresistible tension,”

This wins the biscuit for most delightfully unhinged description of a perfume sample