Pinned Tweet
#ThreeThings
Three lovely, glorious, but mostly small and ordinary things that spark joy, happiness, and pleasure in my day
Use the hashtag above if you want to join in (use caps to help those with reading apps)
M.DwaD sleep-talks. This morning it was 'Get in here, NOW!'
Ooh! Be still my beating heart! πβ€οΈπ
eye π ξ¨ retweeted
Fyfe Robertson heads to Barnsley to explore the traditional game 'Nipsy' before it disappears altogether. Known locally as 'Piggy' or 'Peggy', this lively game sees players strike a wooden piece into the air and hit it again mid-flight, with locals measuring the distance.
"This is above all a miners' game."
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 2 November, 1964.
eye π ξ¨ retweeted
It's apparently 'International Control Room Week' this week. Appropriately, nobody told us. π
Since, as many of you know, I work as a Route Controller in a railway Control, I thought it might be a lark to share (as much as I can...) a 'day in the life' of my desk.
π§΅
eye π ξ¨ retweeted
An early Halloween cartoon for @GuardianBooks

ALT Two figures sit on benches beside a lake. They are both reading books. One figure is labeled βReading a vampire novelβ, the other is labeled βVampire reading a novelβ. In the lake, the human reader, book and bench are perfectly reflected, but the vampireβs book appears to be floating above an empty bench.
eye π ξ¨ retweeted
I've know I've posted this before, but I have gained a few more followers since who may not have seen it
Summer 1896: Children shrimp fishing, filmed by the LumiΓ©re Brothers thought originally to be French, but recently discovered to be filmed in England
Enhanced by JP Lillenfeld
eye π ξ¨ retweeted
Karma on Love is Blind Habibi deciding to end her relationship because her fiancΓ© said itβs either him or her love of dancing. Not only did she choose dancing, she gave us a mfin word too.
Holiday eve, so of course, because the fridge has been emptied, it's chip, fried eggs and beans for tea, cooked by my love
πβ€οΈπ
#HesAKeeper #HesDefinitelyAKeeper
#IfWeTookAHoliday
#JustSomeTimeToCelebrate
#ThirdAnniversary
#ItWouldBeSoFine
Today me is very grateful to past me who checked the prices of flights and decided a Monday to Monday holiday was a good thing. A whole weekend to sort house and pack. Home to clean sheets next week π
Bit of a month my twits. Ex has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and now has had strokes. ES is on a holiday and YS is in bits at being so far away. Tricky times for them π
eye π ξ¨ retweeted
Is any of it going to fit him?
Lingerie retailer Bravissimo, which was set up by entrepreneur Sarah Tremellen almost 30 years ago, has been sold to a Japanese giant.
bit.ly/3BesAsH


















