Isabel Rogers

It'll be polo necks and even longer hair soon.

Richy's whole thread here is marvellous.

oh MY

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

Now there's an idea.

Don't get them often round here. This one was far FAR lower than anything I've seen. I feel there must be rules doing this where people live, and the rule is higher than that.

Get them here around one day a month, then nothing. But usually much MUCH higher. This was mad.

I know I'm wilfully avoiding the news, but fuuuuuckinell a fighter jet just went over the lowest I've ever known one to do. Didn't see it coming but now my ears hurt. Sheep scattering in panic. Zig leapt across the room and is now trembling violently. Clearly training hard at Lossiemouth. Bugger off

Zig asleep on his side on the bed but somehow his underneath front leg has got hitched over a blanket and is pointing up at an angle, straight joints. floofy feet that I didn't wash last time we came in off the field so prob a fair bit of dried mud in between his toes. Maybe he's making a point

my perfectly normal dog

pond visitor - first I've met this year

There's no "just" about that role!

!! I didn't know this. This new knowledge may well tip me into a rewatch of it tonight.

Bill Family comedy from the performers of Horrible Histories. Young Bill Shakespeare leaves Stratford to follow his latest dream, to be a playwright in London.

If you're looking forward to the Ghosts film and need some escapist comedy, this by the same troupe is great

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I remember live-tweeting it years ago while my daughter watched it for the first time, and being Quite Alarmed.

I've never got over hearing TAKE ME UP THE NORTH MOUNTAIN! without warning.

you were ALL correct

my wonderful squashable water container with a heating element that I can plug into the mains to heat it to 42C and then attach a battery to pump it up through the hose to give me a hot shower. The bit of stringy fabric attatched to the shower head is part of a complex and tested method of suspension which gives me stable hands-free showering time yes I've been living like this for 8 months now why do you ask

Look at it, all ready and primed at ambient room temp. Gazing longingly out of the window at the wash tent, wherein lieth its destiny. Tomorrow.

I do recommend watching it and then squeaking excitedly when you recognise a gif

Reached the tipping point between 'bringing the filled shower* inside and keeping my options open' and 'it's going to be tomorrow morning'

*15 litre wonder container that heats my shower to 42 deg C and then (with separate rechargable battery) pumps it at either 3 or 4 litres per min AT MY WHIM

yes yes all of you calm down Lev

I KNOW! and you were one of the people I knew I should have trusted...

Trying to ration (slightly) so I can appreciate it.

Just into series 2. Should have listened I know I know.

I may never recover from the rendition of Danny Boy. Especially with the intro for the encore.

Exactly right!

Doing actual LOLs. OL

Old birch tree showing off its golden autumnal canopy colour and draped in bearded lichen. Credit Duncan Wood / World Nature Photography Awards

Wonderful to see this spectacular image of beautiful old birch tree in Glen Affric listed as a winner in The World Nature Photography Awards 2026. Congrats to photographer Duncan Wood (excellent name BTW 😆). Incredible nature (& photographer talent). Take a moment to marvel 👉️ buff.ly/RRUkFXP

Yep - I think I never got past the first ep before. Am idiot. I know these things need time to bed in.

and *conversationally* d'you know what else I'm trying in my insular limited-news programme of self-care? Watching Schitt's Creek for the first time properly. Tried it a few years back and thought 'meh not really' and felt guilty because a load of you I trust love it. May I now say YOU WERE SO RIGHT

They are. I'll probably have some TDAC later on in the summer. *Blues Brothers Club Owner Voice* we get both kinds