Today marks the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere.
Equinox (n.): The festival of the equine-ox. The day on which the local village idiot toured their domain astride an ox.
Tweet in my sobriety
Retweeted by Tanita Tikaram… My work on Twitter is complete.
Excavation
About 20 years ago, I bought my dad a Swiss Army knife. A few months later, he saw it fall out of his pocket as he was working in the garden, but couldn’t find it in the undergrowth, despite looking many times. We often reminisced about that knife.
Last week, while digging in the garden, dad found what’s left of it:
A drop of oil should do the trick.
It’s the dawn of a new era!
Floods, a pandemic, and now a comet. It’s like being back in the Middle Ages.
Gnu Romantics
Homo raphus
A little-known fact about me is that, on nights of the full moon, I turn into a dodo.
…That’s right: I’m a weredodo.
True or false?
Vol au vent is French for water vole’s anus.
Weird insect
Spotted this weird insect in our kitchen this morning. What the heck is going on?
CLINT
Did a double-take in Sainsbury’s earlier in the week:
…it made my day.
No glow
BBC: Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre on Maxwell arrest
A US woman who says she was brought to Britain aged 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew has said he “should be panicking” following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.
Panicking, maybe, but certainly not sweating.