Things I could happily live without, number 347: emails from companies I’ve bought stuff from.
– Please tell us what you think of your new gloves!
– They’re gloves.
I wanted to give off about this while remaining diplomatic but I’ll just be blunt.
census.gov.uk/ni/assets/Ulst…
The “Ulster Scots” 2021 census form is awful. It bears almost no resemblance to spoken or literary Scots of any dialect. In this thread I’ll try to explain:
Passed a cat carrying a small dead rodent and looking pretty pleased with itself. Somebody’s going to find a delightful little present on their kitchen floor.
Wall to wall Miss Marple on Radio 4 Extra. How very British: “We can’t have any comedy or suchlike. Wouldn’t be appropriate. Let’s just have a nice bit of murder.”
It’s going to be tough for the older monarchists. They’ll be singing “God save our gracious Quee - King!” for ages, like when we used to write the wrong year on a cheque.
Morning! A lot of people have been asking when Bernard's funeral is. Primarily so they can pay their respects by thinking of him while it's taking place. It's next Wednesday (14th) at noon so if you would like to have him in your thoughts then, that'd be rather lovely ❤️
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will have a new prime minister tomorrow, following a show of hands at an extraordinary general meeting of the Bexhill-on-Sea bowls club.
“Truss vows.” “Truss pledges.” “Truss promises.” Have three years of Johnson taught you nothing, journalists? The apt verbs are asserts, purports, pays lip service to … (etc).