Isabel Rogers

Haven't clicked. Won't click. If I want someone tilting at windmills I know the very thing and it won't make me nearly as cross.

Correct. Exactly the right way to do it. This is how to enjoy life. Plus: DELICIOUS FOOD

* tidies kitchen *

...

* immediately messes it up again *

In my defence, yesterday's breakfast was late and hurried after I picked up my wash tent that had blown over in a surprise overnight gust, and walked to my neighbours' house to do the same for their bins which were out for Bin Day. I don't tell you everything but it's been busy here.

Early lunch (today started early - don't judge) and realise, as I munch my toast and houmous, why it tasted so odd yesterday at breakfast with marmalade. It is a rosemary sourdough with salt on the top. Delicious. But surprising with marmalade.

Cleaner gossip: cleaners and handymen across London are being mobilised and paid £££ to get the dormant mansions of “ex-pats” ready for the unscheduled return of their traumatised owners from Dubai.

Just popped in here for a moment in passing and this has absolutely made my day.

"Richard! Stop hiding under a cache-misère of your own mythology! We have guests!"

Reading an article analysing the *gestures* sitch, and coming across words like 'enmeshed' and 'acculturated' describing UK-US interactions. Succinct and true. Words are powerful. Vocab may* yet save us.

* yeah I know I know

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...