Please RT Help! My daughter has lost all her Rubikโs cubes on the train from Edinburgh to Peterborough today
@LNER
she is distraught. Years of collecting and curating her collection and competing at competitions with them. Please help find them! They were in a black shoulder bag
My gift to you this morning is the world Bumbulum, Latin for fart.
This tweet is brought to you by the fact that I have 7yo son and itโs Romans Day at his school today.
Happy Monday, everyone!
RIP Erik Bloodaxe mug. You came to me on my birthday in my first term at uni after buddies noticed I had arrived with no kitchenware at all / they scoured charity shops and Erik has been treasured ever since.
Thinking about turning him into an art piece- suggestions welcome ๐๐
โCur?โ means โwhy?โ in Latin. As I was dropping off to sleep last night it occurred to me that *obviously* โcuriosityโ must come from โcurโ, โwhy-ish-nessโ. Imagine my disappointment when all the dictionaries say โcuriosusโ is from โcuraโ & to do with taking care of stuff. Why???
Last night was time to start a new book. First one, about living wild, was too self centred and awful; second, just too much grim content; third, this absolute treasure, Adrift, by
@LegoLostAtSea
I urge everyone to read it. You will only be disappointed if you hate everything.
Chester Roman amphitheater is amazing. Originally built c80ad, it was probably the biggest and most elaborate in Britain and until yesterday I had no idea it existed.
Got my cubing T-shirt, got my cubing lanyard, got mild tendonitis from too much cubing practice last night (joke!), got my daughter all ready to go and berating me for tweeting - itโs the UK Nationals!! Wish us luck ๐ - oh wait, got my cubes too!! ๐คฃ
@JoannaCannon
The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston - in fact, pretty much all her books. You can visit the house at Hemingford Grey and it is so well worth it - the oldest continuously inhabited house in the country. So much history and so many stories.
There was a man from
@itvanglia
at the lido this morning. I burbled on like a happy frozen loon for a couple of minutes on camera for him and might make the cut for this eveningโs news ๐๐ฅถ๐โโ๏ธ๐ฅฐโ๏ธ
Iโm walking from Cambridge to Wimpole (and back!) today and thought Iโd share some of the lovely sights so far.
Sorry for no alt text- Iโm typing while I walk briskly - ๐ผ๏ธ are flowers, blue skies, fields, maybe a bee or butterfly.
The honeysuckle bee pic, the smell hit me first
I know my limits. I am encased in 5mm rubber all over, wetsuit, boots and gloves, plus 2 swimming hats. I still only stayed in for about 3 minutes as I felt like my face was getting frostbite. -4 air temp and 2.7c in the water. Take care out there, folks!
@JesusGreenLido
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Introducing my excessively homemade Christmas wreath! Made from holly and ivy from my gdn (the only things which thrive there) and bits of ribbon magpied over the year. It may not be much, but itโs the first Christmassy thing Iโve achieved this year, aside from brandy butter.
Lovely afternoon in Duxford Cambs today and really good to meet
@badger_beard
in St John the Baptist church - thank you so much for showing us the graffiti and other delights!
@TheCCT
Went for a quick swim with my daughter this afternoon in the sunshine, the weather turned quite dramatically, and then there was a rainbow ๐๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ๐๐๐
@JesusGreenLido
I am just in love with my new birthday watering can. Itโs an elephant and it reminds me of a Clanger. It pours in a satisfying sprinkle too ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ต๐๐ฑ
Got my cubing T-shirt, got my cubing lanyard, got mild tendonitis from too much cubing practice last night (joke!), got my daughter all ready to go and berating me for tweeting - itโs the UK Nationals!! Wish us luck ๐ - oh wait, got my cubes too!! ๐คฃ
Cambridge folks, the cafe kiosk on Jesus Green has reopened this morning under new management. It has proper coffee and real cakes including vegan and gf options and looks really attractive. Ice creams will be available too โ๏ธ ๐ฆ ๐ง
So excited to see
@amy_historia
displayed in
@heffersbookshop
and window this morning! Canโt wait to dive in and explore her beautifully illustrated myths of Britain.
My first sweet pea flower opened in the rain. I planted these ones from pods harvested from my plants last year and I couldnโt be more pleased with them ๐
I think the cold water swimming is seriously getting to me. Knowing I wonโt get a swim in today (winter opening hours
@JesusGreenLido
, no time to get in the river with my swimmy friends) I turned my morning shower down to cold. And I liked it. What has happened to me??? ๐ฅถ๐คช
My boy and I spent some time sitting by the river with our sketchbooks yesterday afternoon when the sun was lowering. He talked about how drawing water is hard and I took this picture to show him that you have to look for shapes and colours rather than think of it as water.
This absolute beauty just popped up on my photo thingy and how could I not share it? Seems to have been in the โฆ
@CUBotanicGarden
โฉ in 2018.
(Alt text: a yellow and orange fungus in many horizontal fringelike layers growing from a tree trunk with vertical ridges & some ivy)
I love
@JesusGreenLido
and this is just one of the reasons why - a self seeded petunia happily blooming from a crack in the cement under one of the poolside benches ๐
Good morning! This is the amaryllis my grandmother gave me a good number of years ago. It flowers occasionally and I am glad to have such a beautiful reminder of her. She loved us well.
Good morning from Day 2 of the cubing competition! Hoping to get a sub 60 second solve on the 3x3 today. Daughter has another range of events too. Wish us luck!
I went for a pre dawn swim in the lido.
It was magnificent, in spite of kit failure - fixing goggles in 0c with neoprene gloves was never going to work, but grateful to the life guards who tried and fetched the lost property so I could use a spare set ๐ ๐โโ๏ธ ๐โโ๏ธ
@JesusGreenLido
Big cat in the chapter house of Southwell Minster and dog on the wall of the Bishopโs Palace, also Southwell - much of the chapter house, appropriately to this weekโs theme of
#AnimalsInChurches
, has suffered water damage in the past
#RainingCatsAndDogs
Iโve been ๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ fairly regularly
@JesusGreenLido
for 9+ years and itโs always been a haven and a joy, but itโs in the past year of swimming thro 2 winters that Iโve made marvellous new friends. Iโm so grateful for all its many and varied healing and healthsome properties๐ฅฐ๐โโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐๐