C. Buckthorn

If you haven’t already got one, an electric blanket will change your life 😘

(It was a little bit hot)

Let bf loose on my back the other night with Deep Heat and an array of pneumatic tools. It was not hot. But bad back is now significantly better 👌

I want a cup of tea and a wagon wheel

Dayum, son

I know the feeling ❤️

Library’s full of kids ❤️

@cbuckthorn.bsky.social spookily replying before I’d even posted

Whoooaaaa

Magnolia!

My beautiful sisters smiling and me grimacing

Sister time let’s have a sister

Apparently there was a lot of trauma for survivors when Olympic next rocked up in New York. But also quite a few of the Titanic crew were re-employed by White Star and put straight back to work on Olympic

Just remembered the QE2 is in Dubai. Now I know how that guy with the dog feels

Very many!!

It should 100% be the Olympic story

This little prick has fucked up so much

I’ve just seen ‘fastest’. The Lusitania is spinning in her own watery grave

Broke: it was the captain’s fault
Woke: it was the iceberg’s fault
Bespoke: it was the completely still waters of the Atlantic’s fault

I would’ve mentioned one of the many liners that did not immediately sink, personally

I’ve written articles about a bus moquette factory. Can confirm

Just write ruta in italics. Exotic!

The bear from Jon Klassen’s I Want My Hat Back, wearing his red triangle hat and a thousand-yard stare

Easy World Book Day costume

“It is His office to save us”: Susanne Sundfør at Palmehaven, Trondheim 28 February 2026 (evening) We are, somewhat incongruously, in a hotel restaurant when Susanne Sundfør makes another dart towards the ete...

2,000 of my favourite words on one of my favourite things. advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2026/03/Sund...

Cheers sons crying xxxx

Viva: Becoming A Doctor (of Philosophy) t took five years and five months to get to this point. And of course, the thirty-five years before that. On the way there, I put my hype playlist on. Loud bangers. Chuck a drumkit down the stairs …

I wrote a bit about passing my viva, and how I got this far, and also, can we all stare at my tiny grumpy children and wonder at how the HELL I managed to do all this with THEM being like THIS?

sophiemhistory.com/2026/03/02/v...

You can't make a Cadbury's Creme Omelette without breaking a few eggs

Love to all of you xx

Discovering that last year's uneaten Cadbury's Creme Eggs have hatched and become Cadbury's Creme chickens

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.