I'm not saying we're elderly parents, but today when I told my 2-year-old not to drop her food on the floor, she sang "Don't drop your food on the floor, Mrs Worthington..."

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Today is 20 years on from the London bomb attacks on the London Underground and on a bus in Tavistock Square. 52 people killed and 100s injured. It occasioned a magnificent piece of journalism in The Guardian. Please read and share: theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/…

Merry Christmas and love to you all from Saffia, Greg, and Sinead/Molly Plume/Lady Whitetum/Sinead Stylites

When I die, someone please hire this woman.

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 1st July at 2pm SLT as we look back to an episode about the Banyan House created by Eliza Wierwight in tribute to Eliza, who passed recently. For details and landmark see: shorturl.at/Jid26

An interesting exercise, backed by a number of universities, for anyone preparing to vote in the UK.

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 24th June at 2pm SLT as we visit Fanci's Deep in tribute to MarkTwain White, who passed recently. For details and landmark see: shorturl.at/tF4Kx

Very sad to learn of the passing of MarkTwain White, one of the founders of the Blake Sea and an SL legend. I had the honour of interviewing him for a @PrimPerfect magazine biographic in 2011 and he and Nber were fascinating. Here's the original issue: calameo.com/read/000004234e0…

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 10th June at 2pm SLT as we visit the fantastic Artwalk 2024, set in the amazing tinies’ community of Raglan Shire. For details & how to watch on the web or join our Watch Party see: shorturl.at/pOoVO

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 3rd June at 2pm SLT as we look back to 2014 when we visited the fantastic Artwalk, set in the amazing tinies’ community of Raglan Shire. For details, weblinks and landmarks, see shorturl.at/mpbIJ

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 27th May at 2pm SLT as we pay the second of two visits to the fabulous Fantasy Faire. For details and landmark see: shorturl.at/57urv

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 8th April at 2pm SLT as we visit the new version of Story Quest, a non-linear narrative of the life and times of a man known as Uncle D. For details & how to watch on the web or join our Watch Party, see: bit.ly/4cQdZlK

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 1st April at 2pm SLT as – with Fantasy Faire coming up – we look back to Fantasy Faire 2023! For details & how to watch on the web or join our Watch Party, see: bit.ly/3vzETNN

Join Designing Worlds today, Mon 25th March at 2pm SLT as we pay tribute to and share memories of the much-loved LaPiscean Liberty. For details and landmark see: bit.ly/4aeD0p6

There is a death of sorts in the moments after being diagnosed with cancer. The self you were before is torn and blasted with the suddenness of a dozen mines, the heavy sword of Damocles is roped and hung, your own thin ghost steps forward from the shadows. It feels like being hurled, with scarcely a moment to gather your pack, onto a fast boat-train to the Western Front; your very particular War commencing in a precise, organised military fashion with the long-postings of appointments, and then the day-by-day soldiering of blood tests, injections, surgeries, PICC lines, Central lines, the fierce dull drip-drip-drip of chemotherapy and the bustle and airline-leather chairs and bright nurse-jollity of the oncology suites, and the arching radiotherapy machines like vast dark booming angelic beings, all the time guided by luck, or lack of it, the skill, or lack of it of your medical commanders, and the resources, or lack of them, of your particular department, hospital, trust. And as in the trenches, you have your companions in the mud and the bombardment and rat-infested dug-outs. They are the only ones who can possibly understand, who will ever understand; the only souls who have felt the same mortal loneliness, the same monstrous visceral night-fears, the same unimaginable pain of imagining your children's future grief, of long, long lives lived without you, the same swells of hope and despair and pragmatism. They are the only ones who have suffered the same onslaught of nausea and ulcers and stomach cramps and burning acid and strappado bone pain and the giddy sleepless jittered fairground ride of steroids, the amputations and the raw red puckered scars and the irreversible pin-and-needle nerve damage, and the same urgent need to never, ever talk of it, the same urgent need to talk of nothing else, to be endlessly vigilant, to check, check every twinge and headache and joint pain and cough. But they too have felt the bright glittering patches of levity and unexpected, uncharted beauty of the journey, the sound of lark-song over the cratered fields. For this is the strange serpentine gift of cancer – the dull scales fall away and our brief golden flight through the mead-hall of the world in all its wonderment and horror is revealed. Everything which is unnecessary falls away, and only truth and love and the brief eternal present remain.

Join Designing Worlds today, Monday 11th March 2024, at 2pm SLT as – with Fantasy Faire coming up – we look back to Fantasy Faire as it was in 2019! For landmark and details, see: bit.ly/3PqevNa

oin Designing Worlds today, Monday 11th March 2024, at 2pm SLT as – with Fantasy Faire coming up – we look back to Fantasy Faire as it was in 2014! bit.ly/3TgvId5

So … I think anyone watching the #Oscars tonight would have learnt that Mother’s Day in the UK takes place at a radically different time to the US. Even if they missed the British accents, the shoutouts to Mums was an indication of how many Brits were taking home #Oscars

Designing Worlds will be filming a special Memorial/Tribute to LaPiscean Liberty on Tuesday March 5th at 1pm. Please join us. See bit.ly/3V6pPBS