Kirsty

Looks like I'll be trying the promo code TIMOTHEE for pretty much everything I try to book for at least the next few months...

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

They're new to me too (I've no kids, & I don't think they were a thing when I was a smol), but would appear to be mostly kid-sized portions of your regular ready meals - & they look awesome! www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/groce... or www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/produ...

I'd also like to nominate "SPECS OFFENDERS". Thank you, I yield my time.

No worries, at least it's beautiful! 🩷

Thanks for the latter earworm!

Ooh... (has sudden Mother's Day inspo - mum wanted to harvest some from us last year, but we've got the invader sort)

Just remembered how yesterday I walked past a busker just off Covent Garden Piazza singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, and my unironic instinctive thought was “surely you shouldn’t be singing that word in Lent” 😂

For no particular breaking topical reason, a recent (award-winning) cartoon.

"We can always tell" woman fails to identify Chinese Intelligence Asset she married.

I love Jeremy Bowen in "I'm too old for this shit" mode #wato

😂

Well I guess at least no one needs to learn a new spelling.

HMS Irresistible sinking during the Dardenelles campaign, having proved to everybody's satisfaction that the name might just have been a teeny-tiny bit premature after all.

If I'd rushed into a poorly planned campaign around a notorious maritime choke point that left it closed to friendly shipping I'd carefully lay off the Churchill comparisons, but hey...

‘As classical musicians we play a lot of music by dead European white men. Which is fine - they wrote a lot of good music. But it’s not what I was brought up on. So this is a little encore in honour of the music that’s in my foundations’

When I start a new podcast, I binge all the way from the start.

I've just had the delight of A Child of Our Time as @thoroughlygood.bsky.social takes his friend to the 2016 Proms.

Now tinged with the memory/emotion of being the last piece that Sir Andrew Davis conducted for the BBCSO&C ❤️

I didn't think, right until they said that, that there might be a reason to.

Much government, many wow.

People are so funny. My aunt introduced her (now ex-)partner as a retired "accountant". Nope, he'd been "head of accounts". At Pilkington's Glass, so a really chuffing big deal anyway.

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.

Absolute charlatans.

Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

I'd never heard of Charlie Stross before Saturday (when a friend introduced us to The Laundry RPG)...now I *need* to raid the library!

Have an amazing time! Sorry I couldn't make it for this one; BBC is just too far from Liverpool.

I’ve never seen a face that screams ‘And I’d do it again’ quite like that one.

Exclusive: BBC Radio 3 has ended its relationship with Norman Lebrecht following an email to Yuja Wang the pianist described on Instagram as "derogatory misogynistic bullying."

Oh no 😢I must admit, that knowing MTT is so ill, it never occurred to me that he'd outlive his husband 😢

I love the idea of some hotel receptionist saying “And we’re looking forward to welcoming Lord Mandelson next week as well“ and Hoyle saying “wait what”

Hm, I don't know of any, but Liverpool Welsh Choral is who I'd ask (www.facebook.com/LiverpoolWel...)

As I suspected here it sounds like the Met Police *spectacularly* screwed up here.

It's absolutely amazing they're demanding to overrule parliament on disclosing documents around Mandelson'sappointment while making errors this basic and grave.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Next week: Chomp has taught Tâf to fetch, if not use, a spoon (curse her lack of opposable thumbs!)

Thanks for the earworm...