Ceri Shields

If, like me, you’re thinking; ‘Wait what? That’s not Santa Croce,’ then no, it’s not THAT Santa Croce, the famous one in Florence. This picture shows another Basilica di Santa Croce in Lecce, down on the south-east corner of Italy.

Now we know 🙂

We have done up the bedroom as we planned to do.

Also, as yet Amazon’s search functionality is still markedly better than Waterstones’. So I sometimes use Amazon for searching and then buy from Waterstones or a local indie bookshop, online or in person. Click-and-collect can be useful too.

Well amazingly the ‘Board of Peace’ turns out to be more dodgy than the fairground dodgems at Dodge City run as a wholly owned concern by dodgy impresario Dodgy J Trump.

Thread:

Live tweet Trump speech thread. All the salient points:

The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives.

Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

Though he was ‘intensely discreet’ about his parts, I have just read on Wikipedia.

Benson, the famous airforce base and Edwardian novelist?

I don’t know how the entire country doesn’t curl up behind the sofa in embarrassment at their leader but apparently they don’t.

Does the Trump’s government decide who wins the Oscars?

I dunno, I’m *assuming* that’s not a serious question.

Look everyone! Macron did not call Trump a c__t in a text message! Let the hot takes flow.

‘I want your clothes, your boots and your spray tan.’

Oh, by the way, people are saying there’s a major solar storm going on at the moment so high likelihood of more Northern Lights tonight. If the cloud clears where you are then worth a look out, at least. Especially if you are somewhere without street lighting?

Last night was rather a fairie experience. On my walk through dark Devon lanes, intermittent pools of mist at ground level so the reds and bright cerulean blues from above filled everything with a hazy pearlescent glow. And shiny green above Dartmoor just to the north from horizon to horizon.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.

PS, wow, some of the replies to Nadine’s post. Guys, guys…

Lad's hungover. Popped the local for a couple last night with Brigitte after a long day, a couple turned into "fuck it", and them only leaving the pub when the landlord interrupted them singing to remind them they all had homes to go to.
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Channel4 news reporting that he strode away from the podium, jumped into his Rafale jet and flew off to do battle with the massive alien spacecraft.

I have an RP English accent and in cosmopolitan bits of the States like NY and Boston I’ve had people do that pained ‘I’m finding it hard to understand what you’re saying’ face and ask me if I’m French. Or German. So I’m taking that bit of the story with a massive pinch of salt.

If I was an early medieval scribe writing up last night’s entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle I’d definitely be saying that dragons had been seen in the sky.

Insane Auroras over Stonehenge

Insane Auroras over Stonehenge

I’m afraid this is true.

Trust is hard earned, quickly destroyed and seldom fully won back.

I’ve never managed to see it anywhere in the UK before. A long time ago we saw it absolutely spectacularly in the north of Norway one freezing February. Last night wasn’t as extravagant but still pretty good, and also magically otherworldly, fizzing around over Dartmoor.

“Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Brooklyn and Nicola to the dance floor as they share their first dance as a married couple.”

Victoria:

Medical examiner: ‘An autopsy is not required in cases like this.’

Snaps shut laptop.

Trump can’t be bought? What hilarious nonsense: ALL of the evidence says the opposite.

‘A lot of good people are on a hook over Donald Trump.’

On the other hand, a great many much better people have never been on the hook over Donald Trump.

Elevator pitch: ‘A permanently angry man just can’t be told.’

Studio exec: ‘Yep, this is an evergreen plot.’