Manic pixie dream crone

I did a mindfulness course through work years ago (way before I knew I was ND) and still think that was what pushed me from pretty badly depressed but coping to complete breakdown.

I am loving the daily Ozzy pics! They are making week 3 of Michaelmas a bit easier to bear.

I went on a trip to the Somme when I was in sixth form. It shut up every single person there. Yes, even the lads who were always clowning around and made a joke out of everything. Not about this, it was too real and too awful.

Churchill in particular hated the women of Dundee for the role they played in helping boot him out as local MP after he flipped Tory.

In part, because they kept leading chants of "You're a WC with no seat!" at the notoriously thin-skinned Winston when he lost.

This is an excellent book; my only complaint was that I got to the end far too soon.

I could drive from my house to the park and ride, which is about a mile and a half, and even adding in petrol costs it would be cheaper, but definitely doesn't feel like what they're trying to achieve.

I am in favour of this in theory, but mildly annoyed that this means I'll be paying twice what people using the park and ride pay to travel to work on the same bus.

I like "all the bear". It could go alongside the colleague who sometimes signs emails to me with "best weasels".

I believe this was the point where modern Britain jumped the shark.

The Jolly Roger flag

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x

I'm sorry for your loss.

A kingfisher perches on the end of one of a row of horizontal girders.

Photography achievement unlocked. #birds #kingfisher

Alas 😢 I rarely manage to get to the Vaults but it is such a lovely cafe.

Incredibly minor point in the grand scheme of the horror of this policy, but this would mean that many women with ILR would be unable to go on maternity leave unless they had a very high salary or an amazing employer package.

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Well, that's a depressing thought.

Yes, you can just knit from the ball.

Mind you, I still knew we had to pay, and I suspect I was quite anxious about getting it right the first time.

I can remember going on a bus on a trip to London when I was about 10, and to the nearby town once at the same age. The part of Hampshire where I spent my secondary school years had no bus service, nor did my grandparents' town. I'd certainly never been on a public bus alone before university.

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.

There is a serious, and growing, issue of anti-semitism, along with islamophobia, in the UK, and that cannot be ignored. Personally speaking, I am not sure that allowing a shed load of people notorious for causing violence to run rampant is a good way to combat that. Might just be me though.

Can we please get some perspective. If Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned because of a risk to them it would absolutely be anti-semitism. When they are banned because they have a track record of causing violence it is just common sense. Preventing football hooliganism is normally a good idea.

The film is epically batshit and I absolutely adore it. (It also reminds me of my dad, because he watched it on video *a lot* when I was a teenager. That and Terminator.)

People keep telling me horror stories about the toilets in your building!

Though on the upside, at least the obligatory bit of plumbing that turned out not to have been connected up was (a) a sink not a toilet and (b) nowhere near our bit of the building.

We only have bins in the kitchenette and they aren't very big.

I suspect snag list at ours will be similar.

Apparently not having bins will promote recycling. Except we don't have any more recycling bins, either. I think it'll just be really gross when people have colds.

We have enough boiling water taps but are trying to work out how to handle the fact that the kitchenette is in the main "hub"/foyer area for the faculty rather than being a separate room for staff only. And we don't have enough bins.

The thing that holds up my commute is people dropping off kids at the private schools off the Banbury Road. They might be carrying on into town afterwards, but then again they might not.