Arwen
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Ps if you’re not familiar with Storyville it’s on BBC4 and pulls together the best documentaries from around the world.
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ps if you’re not familiar with Storyville it’s on BBC4 and pulls together the best documentaries from around the world.
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Losing Rob Reiner is bad enough. Losing him this way is unbearable.
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Losing Rob Reiner is bad enough. Losing him this way is unbearable.
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In a fitting tribute, Trump turns his inanity up to eleven.
December 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In a fitting tribute, Trump turns his inanity up to eleven.
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Starting to think that the President going completely mad might force his party to act next year.
He's always said crazy things but he's moved to another, and more politically dangerous, level recently.
He's always said crazy things but he's moved to another, and more politically dangerous, level recently.
December 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Starting to think that the President going completely mad might force his party to act next year.
He's always said crazy things but he's moved to another, and more politically dangerous, level recently.
He's always said crazy things but he's moved to another, and more politically dangerous, level recently.
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And The New York Times called it one of the best thrillers of 2024!
The paperback can be preordered here. And hardback, e-book and audio are all available now.
The paperback can be preordered here. And hardback, e-book and audio are all available now.
The Night Guest
Dark things can happen on a long, cold Icelandic night…Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's ...
us.macmillan.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And The New York Times called it one of the best thrillers of 2024!
The paperback can be preordered here. And hardback, e-book and audio are all available now.
The paperback can be preordered here. And hardback, e-book and audio are all available now.
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I can’t help feeling he’s confused television plots with what he’s typed into Pornhub’s search bar.
No idea what telly Lord Sewell is watching, because I can't think of a single show with this plotline let alone it being something that is inescapable for young white men who subsequently now face a crisis of masculinity drawing them to the far right?? 🙃
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I can’t help feeling he’s confused television plots with what he’s typed into Pornhub’s search bar.
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#OnThisDay, 15 Dec 1838, Caroline Norton uses a pen name to publish a pamphlet campaigning for the Infant Custody Bill.
Until the bill was passed, in 1839, divorced women had no custody rights over their children.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Until the bill was passed, in 1839, divorced women had no custody rights over their children.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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December 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#OnThisDay, 15 Dec 1838, Caroline Norton uses a pen name to publish a pamphlet campaigning for the Infant Custody Bill.
Until the bill was passed, in 1839, divorced women had no custody rights over their children.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Until the bill was passed, in 1839, divorced women had no custody rights over their children.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Advent bird No. 16
Smew
Scientific name: Mergellus albellus
Alternative name: Foxy Sawbill, Black and White Floater
Finnish name: uivelo
Song: doesn’t really have one – the strong silent type – but does occasional make a sort of oinking grrrrr.
Smew
Scientific name: Mergellus albellus
Alternative name: Foxy Sawbill, Black and White Floater
Finnish name: uivelo
Song: doesn’t really have one – the strong silent type – but does occasional make a sort of oinking grrrrr.
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Advent bird No. 16
Smew
Scientific name: Mergellus albellus
Alternative name: Foxy Sawbill, Black and White Floater
Finnish name: uivelo
Song: doesn’t really have one – the strong silent type – but does occasional make a sort of oinking grrrrr.
Smew
Scientific name: Mergellus albellus
Alternative name: Foxy Sawbill, Black and White Floater
Finnish name: uivelo
Song: doesn’t really have one – the strong silent type – but does occasional make a sort of oinking grrrrr.
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Stand By Me. When Harry Met Sally. The Princess Bride. This Is Spinal Tap. A Few Good Men. Make one of those and you’d have cause to be celebrated. He made them all.
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Stand By Me. When Harry Met Sally. The Princess Bride. This Is Spinal Tap. A Few Good Men. Make one of those and you’d have cause to be celebrated. He made them all.
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Oh no. No no no. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Director and actor Rob Reiner found dead at home with wife Michele Singer Reiner
Authorities investigating ‘apparent homicide’ after 78-year-old director of Stand By Me and The Princess Bride was discovered dead at LA home with wife
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Oh no. No no no. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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Spinal Tap is supremely funny. But the real genius is that you well up when David St Hubbins calls Nigel on stage at the end. The idiots are real enough to care about.
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Spinal Tap is supremely funny. But the real genius is that you well up when David St Hubbins calls Nigel on stage at the end. The idiots are real enough to care about.
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Stoke-on-Trent
Kurt Hutton, 1946
Kurt Hutton, 1946
December 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Stoke-on-Trent
Kurt Hutton, 1946
Kurt Hutton, 1946
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It’s Santa taking down an AT-AT!
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It’s Santa taking down an AT-AT!
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Our handcrafted Tudor Marchpane Stampers are perfect for giving your bakes a historic twist! 🎄🍬 A must-have for any Tudor banquet, and your table too.
Grab yours while they’re still available:
👉 potted-history.co.uk/products/tud...
#TudorFood #Marchpane #HistoricBaking #PottedHistory
Grab yours while they’re still available:
👉 potted-history.co.uk/products/tud...
#TudorFood #Marchpane #HistoricBaking #PottedHistory
December 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Our handcrafted Tudor Marchpane Stampers are perfect for giving your bakes a historic twist! 🎄🍬 A must-have for any Tudor banquet, and your table too.
Grab yours while they’re still available:
👉 potted-history.co.uk/products/tud...
#TudorFood #Marchpane #HistoricBaking #PottedHistory
Grab yours while they’re still available:
👉 potted-history.co.uk/products/tud...
#TudorFood #Marchpane #HistoricBaking #PottedHistory
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I have 86 calendars left. I’m really sorry to bang-on about this when you’re a tiny artist and you drop a few grand on a product, it’s as scary as fuck! www.infinitebacon.com/shop/p/nerdl...
December 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I have 86 calendars left. I’m really sorry to bang-on about this when you’re a tiny artist and you drop a few grand on a product, it’s as scary as fuck! www.infinitebacon.com/shop/p/nerdl...
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But the thing is: you can go for all your cancer screenings (and I always have) - mammograms, cervical smears, two colonoscopies to check and biopsy polyps - but none of these screens for ovarian cancer. So know your symptoms. 4/4
December 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
But the thing is: you can go for all your cancer screenings (and I always have) - mammograms, cervical smears, two colonoscopies to check and biopsy polyps - but none of these screens for ovarian cancer. So know your symptoms. 4/4
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(That was 2/? btw)
Anyway, I’m doing okay. I’m having chemo ahead of (hopefully) surgery. But the prognosis is a lot less positive than it would have been if I’d known the symptoms. Or if my GP had suggested it.
3/?
Anyway, I’m doing okay. I’m having chemo ahead of (hopefully) surgery. But the prognosis is a lot less positive than it would have been if I’d known the symptoms. Or if my GP had suggested it.
3/?
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
(That was 2/? btw)
Anyway, I’m doing okay. I’m having chemo ahead of (hopefully) surgery. But the prognosis is a lot less positive than it would have been if I’d known the symptoms. Or if my GP had suggested it.
3/?
Anyway, I’m doing okay. I’m having chemo ahead of (hopefully) surgery. But the prognosis is a lot less positive than it would have been if I’d known the symptoms. Or if my GP had suggested it.
3/?
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There’s a lot of very good stuff about cancer screening in the news at the moment - but I just wanted to remind you all that there is no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
Therefore it’s really important that we know the symptoms so you can ask your GP if you think you might have it. 1/?
Therefore it’s really important that we know the symptoms so you can ask your GP if you think you might have it. 1/?
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There’s a lot of very good stuff about cancer screening in the news at the moment - but I just wanted to remind you all that there is no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
Therefore it’s really important that we know the symptoms so you can ask your GP if you think you might have it. 1/?
Therefore it’s really important that we know the symptoms so you can ask your GP if you think you might have it. 1/?
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i feel like people are not mocking Mark Zuckerberg sufficiently for the fact that he renamed his entire company "Meta" to concentrate on building the "metaverse", and then only a couple of years later realized no one wanted to live in his bad videogame without legs and just abandoned the whole idea
December 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
i feel like people are not mocking Mark Zuckerberg sufficiently for the fact that he renamed his entire company "Meta" to concentrate on building the "metaverse", and then only a couple of years later realized no one wanted to live in his bad videogame without legs and just abandoned the whole idea
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A shout out to all of the people who find this time or year difficult for lots if reasons....
Big hugs to you ❤️
Big hugs to you ❤️
December 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A shout out to all of the people who find this time or year difficult for lots if reasons....
Big hugs to you ❤️
Big hugs to you ❤️
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December 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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However small weak or insignificant you might feel right now, it’s amazing how powerful you really are. Even a bumblebee has a sting in its tail.
Conversation with a bumblebee is painted on 23 carat gold leaf, laid on an antique Italian panel.
Conversation with a bumblebee is painted on 23 carat gold leaf, laid on an antique Italian panel.
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
However small weak or insignificant you might feel right now, it’s amazing how powerful you really are. Even a bumblebee has a sting in its tail.
Conversation with a bumblebee is painted on 23 carat gold leaf, laid on an antique Italian panel.
Conversation with a bumblebee is painted on 23 carat gold leaf, laid on an antique Italian panel.
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Stanley Baxter and Ronnie Corbett as the Ugly Sisters in panto, Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 1967.
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Stanley Baxter and Ronnie Corbett as the Ugly Sisters in panto, Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 1967.