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My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down.
He’s struggling to find any work at the moment.
He’s a brilliant writer and has written for Dangermouse, Private Eye and many more…

If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Thank you

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Cartoon of a man holding up a placard that reads "Campaign for better kerming"

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media

This made me think of the many splendid posts of @mooseallain.bsky.social.

Are you supposed to be reading articles while on annual leave?

I remember you reporting on that delicious meal over at the old (bad) place!

Now I feel like a failure. I found a copy for sale on eBay, but the seller is away until Monday. However, the listing had a photo of the required page. (PS My husband used to own a copy.)

Neither. I’m a tad obsessive when it comes to finding answers! The internet gives me no peace.

P. G. Wodehouse!

View along a back street lined with brick buildings, looking towards the end of a couple of shops in another old red brick building. It is dark. A car is parked to one side. One window on each floor has a light, the ground floor window a bright blue travel agent window, the middle floor yellow light and the top floor window an orange glow.

Lights in the windows.
#BlueskyArtShow #glow 📷 #photography

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Still trying to find which show it is that you want to be sure of having the best seat for.

Close up of two large blooms of pale pink/cream dahlia

I only started following you a few months ago and was really enjoying the roses, and then I realised you’d vanished. Here’s a couple of my Cafe au Lait dahlias to say welcome back.

You might enjoy this. bsky.app/profile/bob3...

PS It's the grammar/structure that irritates me.

I'd prefer the phrase 'Enjoy the rest of your day', but I appreciate it might not be appropriate if I've been speaking to them about not enjoying the first part, e.g. when complaining to a service organisation. But then they could have done something to make the rest enjoyable!

Prooflistener needed. But yes – it was my job as a coursebook editor (when asked to be present at the recording studio) to make sure that what was recorded was correct in content and pronunciation. And also to listen to the recordings!

Thank you, Robert Redford (as The Sundance Kid), for showing 14-year-old me just why boys might be worth bothering with (and for making me set impossibly high standards).

Mine was purchased in my thirties, because I no longer had my childhood set. I got it to stamp dates on the back of photos. It was stored in a yellow Kodak photo printing paper box (which I still have), but it succumbed to age, or disuse.
Gosh, this all sounds so analogue!

That looks like a late-model John Bull printing set. I had one for ages but recently discovered all the rubber bits had disintegrated.

Great North Run medals show Sunderland instead of Newcastle Medals given to participants use an image of Sunderland, which has no connection to the event.

’Lots of people looked very closely at the designs and none of us picked it up.’
Seriously thinking of changing my company name so I can start posting these with the comment ‘Should have gone to Textsavers.’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tell me about it. And there was I thinking that comma-taming (as a career choice) would be easier than lion-taming.

A selection of illustrations and commissions including an album cover design of a vintage radio, a book cover design with an illustration of George Harrison, architecture illustrations, a Listening Party turntable design, a music pattern design and a photo of me wearing glasses.

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.

It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.

Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

Technically, an Oxford comma is for a list of three items. But I can see the conundrum.

I've seen the topics posted separately so I know what this means really, but I can't stop thinking about what it's like to have a child controlled by a cacao fruit drink.

(groan, I've now seen the typo)

Your forced me to investigate! I found this: 'a tensile kind of toffee vulgarly known as "Swaggering Dick," peppermint of various degrees of astringence ... the sticky surface of which is thickly plastered with magenta sugar' according to the Manchester Quarterly: www.archive.org/stream/paper...

I'd also noticed that the two I suggested were almost what you said but not quite!

Or TMoC beginning?