@JackTheCat Fingerless gloves. Sounds counterintuitve, I know. Works mind. 👍
Go for quality though. Cheap ones just make your hands sweaty. Cashmere all the way.
@JackTheCat Glad I was raised by a godless activist hippy then 😂
Even my totally non-rebellious grandparents, when my brother and I asked about Sunday school, said "well, you can go along if you like, but we think it's nonsense".
@JackTheCat The big black ones are the only things that do get squished. Every other critter is either shepherded to safety or left to go about its business in the numerous dusty corners of my house.
Clearly you're a better person than me.
@JackTheCat I hear you. That post incident high alert phase is grim. I had one sprint across the duvet while I was reading in bed last week. Thankfully the yelps of shock stunned it into not moving long enough for me to squish it with a slipper 😂
@JackTheCat I kept my moka for just such an emergency but I fear I may have stored it in the shed. I'm not dealing with that as well.
I'm just about to buy a spare machine as well - please remind me not to make the same storage related mistake when it arrives 😄
Did you sleep any better?
@JackTheCat I guess the Thursday night to Wednesday morning weekends didn't help much either 😄
I think I'd rather have woken up with a spider than a broken coffee machine tbh.
@JackTheCat Aww, I'm only messin' 😊
I have no doubt about the professionalism.
Also, coffee's only overrated when you have the choice whether or not to have some. Grrr. 😂
@JackTheCat A valid choice.
Anyway, I'm having Maltesers for breakfast. Want one?
Stick your head out the window and open wide - I'll fetch my catapult 😂
If her absolute pasting of Jenrick the other night is anything to go by, it might actually be worth tuning in to see Vic Derbyshire take over Tory Laura's show this morning. Watching her take apart Grant Shapps and Rachel Johnson would significantly improve my morning. #UKPolitics
@Roadwarrior29 I might be remembering wrong, but I think she did stand in for Bruce once on there. Probably contributed to her never getting on there again though.
Meanwhile... another Artemisia Gentileschi work has been uncovered (this time at Windsor Castle) - in the wake of the groundbreaking National Gallery exhibition, and the ever growing interest in #ArtemisiaGentileschi her known (and viewable) works keep expanding - rescuers from obscurity & miss-attribution.
@ChrisMayLA6 I was gutted I couldn't get to see that exhibition. I've got a couple of her prints on my wall here.
I read a really interesting biography of hers a few months' back too. I think you'd enjoy it.
For many the 'autonomy' & flexibility of #selfemployment looks to be paling, with many keen to find salaried positions;
The benefits of being self-employed were always oversold in my view, and certainly in times of crisis, what many have found is that the freedom from oversight & management, quite apart from expositing them to the cruel winds of the market, has also involved a 'freedom' from support & help when things get tough...
@JackTheCat I have a small army of hot water bottles and wheat bags I deploy in winter. Heat the body, not the room, and all that.
Top tip: put one behind your knees if you're on the sofa. Magic.
@JackTheCat You're right about the sleeping bag - you won't feel the benefit of it later in the winter.
Jeez, I seem to be channelling my Nan this morning 🤣
I don't think sartorial elegance should be a consideration when it comes to keeping warm, but a wooly hat indoors? They do these things called hoodies now, you know 😉
I can't help but wonder if #London's #corssrail had between two Northern cities, whether it would ever have been built... sure the history of Crossrail was troubled but it did eventually materialise.... #HS2, not so much
@ChrisMayLA6 I used to work for the transport consultancy who managed Crossrail - do you know when the plans for that first started?
1987.
It would have been abandoned comprehensively were it anywhere other than London, I'm sure of it.
HIS DAD?!????
Just fuck off. He's a grown man. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Independent: "I was Russell Brand’s biographer – and I can tell you his dad has a lot to answer for" https://archive.ph/Gvgkq #Brand
@MusiqueNow Well, precisely. Also, I find it quite ghoulish that there are all these people who have a tangential association with his career suddenly popping out of the woodwork to say things akin to "well I always knew he was a wrong 'un" type stuff.