Heartbroken my new landlord has massacred my twisted hazel and ripped up all the poppies, field buttercups and oxeye daisies while I was away.
It’s visceral.
Hope for those who lost their sense of smell due to C-19.
I haven’t been able to smell since 11 March 2020.
Last weekend, it came flooding back.
Overjoyed. 🤸♀️🤸🏻🤸♂️
I’m the first to proclaim I don’t understand economics, but if the UK’s grew by ‘only 0.1% in November’, and our money-obsessed government wants us to consume, wouldn’t paying public-sector workers a living wage help,
@bankofengland
?
When I appeared nude in a play on Broadway in the early ‘70s, a nasty little critic said I was built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. He should have seen me after the menopause, there was no shortfall then! – Dame Diana Rigg.
Bravo
@DianaRiggHQ
The Anglo-Saxons got it right, and spring should be welcomed on 7 February to this day.
It’s when we see snowdrops and celandines.
From Winters In The World by
@ClerkofOxford
.
Check your
#calendars
UK friends: some 30 million have the wrong date for May Day (the early May Bank Holiday) because the government moved it from the Monday to the Friday (from the 4th to the 8th). 📅
Regarding collecting things from comics
@mrdanwalker
, my dad (died 1988) went to all the newsagents in my town in the early 1970s to find me a Twinkle with the free ladybird ring.
Wish I’d told him I much it meant. 💛
A new word has slotted itself into my brain library’s shelves. I’ve popped it under Social Sciences, but maybe it should be located under Alternative Reality.
Enshittification is the decay process in online platforms.
Wonderful!
Created by
@doctorow
, writer and activist.
Until I moved to West Yorkshire, I would have pronounced Slaithwaite as it looks.
Can't even work out how to type it the way it's pronounced round here, but I'll try.
SLAOW-ITT. 😳😳😳
#Yorkshire
folk are so tight. 😁😁😁
How lovely is this message
@samaritans
? Do you know how kind people can be and how much of a difference it makes? My wonderful young postman made my day. 💛
Isn’t it an honour to be trusted?
When someone hands over guardianship of their website or report or paper or book, it’s my duty as the custodian to handle words with discipline and care.
Ola El Aguizy squeezed herself into a hand-cranked bucket and made the descent of an 8-metre shaft.
Archaeologists’ ‘dream discovery’ of a sarcophagus near Cairo.
In my experience (over 42 years as a professional), *all* text needs proofreading, including mine.
Furthermore, I would not trust someone who is ‘good at English’ to proof my words.
1/2
Podium is from the Greek word for foot and indicates an object one stands upon, not behind.
The piece of furniture one stands behind is a lectern, from the Latin word for reading.
Oh my god, I've learnt a new word and it describes my housekeeping practices.
Perendinate. To defer until the day after tomorrow; to postpone for a day.
Another small message to everyone who doesn't have a partner or bairns: my mam has told me off for talking on Twitter. If I didn't, I would be completely alone. It's the only contact for many of us and I thank feck for it every day. Thank you Twitter friends. ❤️
I've just been moved to tears: my neighbour's son (16 years old) has just called round to offer me a full Christmas dinner.
Such a kind gesture.
Had to say no, as I'm halfway through making my own. 🎄
When I proofread my own writing, I can repeatedly read what I intended to write and not what's actually on the screen in front of me. Just this hour I probably read "high unusual" as "highly unusual" at least 4-5 times, not noticing the error. Does this happen to anyone else?
Some 30 years ago, I climbed onto a massive unsaddled horse tethered outside the village bar.
My mates untied it.
I screamed and squeezed my thighs, not knowing that indicates a gallop.
A hair-raising run through the streets ended here.
#Qu
éntar
'Boris apologised for the new measures, though he laid the blame squarely on the British people for not having been able to abide by the existing measures. Perhaps he should have run that line past Dominic Cummings who set an example so many followed.'
My brainiac author has told me the deadline is ‘whenever you want.’
Today was to be deadline day.
You’ll find me trailing a relaxed white hand in a deep, green pond in the woods.
So if they both muster knights and archers in their respective dukedoms then advance at similar speeds, the battle will take place somewhere on the northern fringe of London, maybe in car park at the Waltham Cross Homebase
Desire paths – described by
@RobGMacfarlane
as 'paths and tracks made over time by the wishes and feet of walkers' – in an urban meadow the council has left untamed (hurrah!).
#30DaysWild
My mate (not young by any stretch) told me it was a leap year.
I told everyone it was a leap year.
I discover she thinks if February has 28 days, it’s a leap year ‘because it leaps from 28th February to 1st March’.
Give me strength.
Finland applies the Housing First concept. Those affected by homelessness get a small apartment and counselling – without preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life.
& it’s cheaper than homelessness.
via
@scoop__me
The news tells us people find January depressing.
The days are lengthening, the promise of spring is in sight, the endurance test that is Christmas is behind us.
#ReasonsToBeCheerful
What is the reason my iPad changes broad into B-road? I have never typed B-road in my life. Here are my B-road beans. They have purple flowers that echo the foxgloves.
Isn’t it tiresome when you’re getting stuck into a book or concentrating on an article and a turn of phrase or a word crops up time and again over the course of a chapter?
When words and phrases crop up time and again in the course of a chapter, it’s tiresome, isn’t it?