Nichola

Basically it’s like a content-generating perpetual (e)motion machine, which is what culture currently runs on.

It’s a book that allows its readers to be either the Most Compassionate And Enlightened Reader EVER or the Most Discerning Critical Reader EVER. It’s too extreme to just go “Meh”. As enough people have wanged on about it in either direction, more people who love having opinions are attracted to it.

Nostalgia! Cheap Naxos CDs formed the bulk of my classical music education as a teenager. They were brilliant.

Wait, are you saying you *don’t* automatically take a cardigan, a jacket, an umbrella, sunglasses, sunscreen and a hat with you every time you leave the house?

For the record I think it’s genius and one of the best things on TV.

It’s not… not a comedy, if you define comedy as having elements of incongruity and overthrown expectations. But I think mainly it’s shoved into that category because we only have five categories of popular story and people get nervous about selling anything that you can’t pigeonhole. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Screenshot from Duolingo Irish saying that the President of Ireland is at the Gaelic Athletic Association

Finally a chance to use the only sentence I remember from Duolingo Irish!

a man wearing a leather jacket and a gold necklace is looking to his left . ALT: a man wearing a leather jacket and a gold necklace is looking to his left .

If you were a global megastar you could insist people wore name badges on stage.

They ARE ladybirds, but in the pupal stage. Worth looking up the ladybird life cycle as a lot of people think the larvae are predators.

Honestly as a gardener I’d be pretty happy with rain on my wedding day* at this point.

* It’s Wednesday, I’m getting married on Wednesday.

I wish I didn’t quote this regularly.

Knitted t-shirt on my skin? Lady, I’m not even touching my cats until September.

It’s that time of year when my sweaty fingers slip across the screen to mute all the Nordic knitwear designers with their bullshit “summer knits”.

In terms of your actual question I have no idea but I’d imagine it could be nice if you used the right bread, jam and peanut butter.

Unsweetened crunchy peanut butter and lime curd on brown toast, thank me later

(I have this very rarely but it’s very delicious)

I hated working with Americans. Anyone who’s not obsessed with the job and emotionally dedicated to the company is a disloyal slacker. Their work ethic is fucking dystopian.

Sorry when did you start writing horror?

Surely the sensible long term plan would be to use their billions to make old the new sexy instead of trying to look young.

He’s halfway to a Herbal Essences ad 😭💚

This - THIS is cultural assimilation.

Before moving to the UK I would have eaten my own fingers before using xx at the end of a text to anyone. Now like impending doom I feel the day approaching when I will refer to a female friend as “hun”.

The more anxious I am the more I sign off messages with x, like someone hanging off the back of a departing ship frantically blowing kisses to no one in particular.

I genuinely considered buying my local* teenage boys Lynx gift sets for Christmas, so they could properly be their age, but decided against doing that to myself.

* as in, local to my house

Warwick Davis once smiled at me in a theatre foyer. Being a seasoned London theatregoer, I smiled back briefly, then went to the loos and texted everyone I knew.

The 4 South London Food Groups

Bake Off: The Professionals is the most sickenly stressful thing that is supposed to be fun. Setting professionals huge challenges and not giving them a decent amount of time is such a poor reflection of their skills and abilities. Watching people excel is so much better than watching them survive.

It was just sneakily hiding in between my beetroot 😭 Brambles are the pits too.

Accidentally grasped a nettle today and let me tell you that’s some fucking terrible advice.

That’s very fniinneon of you.

It is the British way.