Angela 🐱💙 💛🌻

This is the January page of my 2026 Calendar available over here

2026 Calendar page - tinyurl.com/TDCalendar2026

Birmingham New Street Station is a circle of hell Dante missed off

Announcing the winners of our Funny Food Poetry Competition! 🎉

Wishing a huge congratulations to Drisana, Hoo, Kolya and Elsa, whose poems were read aloud by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social during the #MichaelRosenDay livestream with @readforgood.bsky.social on Thurday, viewed by over 260k children!

Ticket resale laws: Football not part of government ticket crackdown The government has announced legislation to outlaw the sale of tickets to sports events at inflated prices - but it will not cover football.

Of course>>> Football not part of government ticket crackdown www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Hello Halifax and nearby
I'll be on at the @VicTheatre on Nov 26, telling the story of the death of my son and my experience of being in a coma for 40 days, as a way of talking with humour and thought about recovery, survival and mortality.
Join me?
www.victoriatheatre.co.uk/whats-on/boo...

On my masters there is a very distinct and noticeable age divide between those who make notes by hand and those who type.

I sometimes teach a college class here and there and the kids are all great. They're wonderful people. But many of them can't really read (without audiobook narration) and most have no idea how to write a paper thanks to AI.

So, like, maybe we should go back and figure out where went wrong.

Why You Need a Pen and Paper Backup Plan for Cyber Incidents Prepare for digital shutdowns with a pen-and-paper plan to ensure business continuity during cyber incidents, as recommended by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.

God help these kids when they end up in workplaces and there's a cyberincident or major outage requiring fallback to pen and paper

Holiday Cooking For One With the festive season upon us and our hearts filled with the reality that we’ve never been so isolated and alone, The Onion offers an extensive guide featuring tips and tricks for preparing an unfor...

Holiday Cooking For One

Twerp 🤣
Don't hear that word enough 🤭

still no takers.

Jeez!

#buyastrangerabook

still no takers.

Jeez!

#buyastrangerabook

still no takers.

Jeez!

#buyastrangerabook

Talking saves lives and we need to be honest about our mental health. It’s alright for boys and men to cry. Mental heath is just as important as physical health.

#InternationalMensDay #MentalHealth

Barbara had caught Bernard out having a quick stiff one

#nudinits #knittedpuppet #innuendo #britishhumour #knittedanimation #carryon #knit

My parents sent me to a private school - but I convinced them later to let me go to a state school because I objected to the private system.

And I still got into science at Cambridge.

Maybe if Seb had been denied that insular environment he wouldn’t’ve turned out to be the twerp that he is. 💁🏻‍♂️

Opinion By Sebatian Payne My mother saved for years to send me to private school. Labour's class warfare will hurt parents like her.

My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.

They ran a live feed on the website during the day, followed it for a while, quite a mix of cases / people's circumstances and outcomes.

Stories from court as home repossessions hit five-year high BBC journalists in the East of England and London attended various county courts as mortgage-holders and renters appeared in front of judges.

BBC reporters go to county court possession list days as mortgage possession claims hit 5 year high. Interviews the legal aid solicitors trying to keep borrowers and tenants in their homes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sunset with trees and two pylons. The bottom of the picture is black. At the horizon, the sky is orange, rising through paler orange to pale blue, with dark clouds across the sky.

Even the pylons look good in this light

It's one thing us as individuals saying it that way, the newspaper reporter could so easily have written 'travelled from Ireland' or 'across from Ireland' though

The GOAT Award goes to Mary Bruce of ABC NEWS! What she did today was totally and unequivocally awesome and amazing! I saw it live. ABC should give her a goddamn raise for this.

YouTube video by Damian Roland Grunting Child

Seeing lots of children with what could be bronchiolitis or viral wheeze.

It can be a clinical conundrum

My audio-visual review of respiratory viruses from a decade ago shows how little the respiratory landscape has changed!

rolobotrambles.com/the-sounds-o...

youtu.be/KQTEu1mpRY8

'Is COVID seasonal?' a journalist asks.

Well...

Dome of Santuário de Santa Luzia, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Dome of Santuário de Santa Luzia, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

People in the intelligence community call Witkoff Dim Philby - both for his level of intelligence and because he’s working for the Russians.

Falkland Islands are British 😘