1. For 15yrs, we’ve been attempting to dig a tunnel under the Thames. No digging has taken place, but £800m has been spent & 9k pages of planning applications drafted. This is double what Norway spent actually building Lærdalstunnelen, the world’s longest road tunnel…
@RichardEGrant @OliviaGranted My mother died 8 months ago and your book has given my stepfather enormous comfort. I’m so very grateful to you for sharing your experience of loss so generously 💙
I’m helping @ifawuk save critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from extinction and protect vulnerable animals around the world. Join me? https://t.co/HnWVi2Yhqp
@SomethingRhymes@Ambtheatre@GylesB1@_tiltedco Ferntickle: the curling of one’s toes in delight (resembling a fern frond) and in anticipation of being touched
Swankum: resting facial expression of smugness
Squinch: a stretched belt hole after one attempts to keep fastening in the same setting over an increasing girth
I have found this frankly wonderful archive of a Northern Ireland primary #school disco in the 1960s while working on a report and it might be the best thing I’ve ever seen.