I'd normally be 😐with a 3* review for one of my books, but when the reviewer has give the same or fewer to books by Orwell, Hemingway and Salinger I'm like 😃🎇

True story

Highly underrated perks of living alone: 1. strolling around naked whenever you want 2. buying just enough groceries 3. no one touching your leftover booze 4. zero obligation to make small talk 5. cooking exactly what you feel like 6. sleeping wherever you please 7. cleaning

Englishman: "That your dog?" Welshman: "Aye" Englishman: "Mind if I speak to him?' Welshman: "Dog don't talk.” Englishman: “Hey dog, how's it going?" Dog: "Doing all right." Welshman: (look of shock) Englishman: “Is this your owner?" (Pointing at the Welshman) Dog: "Yep."

These are all essentially self-help and the stats on whether self-help books actually help people are dire. Change ONE bad habit in your life for the entire year, and skip reading these books. You're welcome. Also, read classics or thrillers or fantasy instead and have a far more

Bloody hell 😬

Lady Jane Wilde (27 Dec 1821 #Dublin-3 Feb 1896 London). 10 languages by 18! "Speranza"; Italian "hope"! 20s, most popular poet in Ireland for eloquent verses on Famine suffering! Wrote on folklore! Stood up for♀️rights! Founded leading literary salon!

That's stunning Emma.

On every Irish corner at Christmas time

Think players have a tough Christmas schedule nowadays? In 1907, Blues played four times in 78 hours. Christmas Day: Man City (h) 26 Dec: Notts County (h) 27 Dec: Notts County (a) 28 Dec: Bristol City (a) Billy Beer & Jack Dorrington played in all four! #BCFC

When Woman of the Day Violet Piercy, born OTD in 1889 in Croydon, ran from Windsor to London on 3 October 1926 in three hours, forty minutes and 22 seconds, The Westminster Gazette primly expressed the hope that "no other girl will be so foolish as to imitate her." The distance

An internal email says it all. @KANGOL_Headwear is choosing inaction while rabbits are tied up and roughly shorn every few months until they die. Help us escalate this & demand Kangol ban angora NOW! 🐰💔 https://t.co/iPkppe5Ceb

I'm not sure what was decided at Stonehenge during the winter solstice this year, but I approve of the new god/ruler/emperor/pagan supreme being or whatever the rank is of the one that was chosen:

St Brelade farm shop aims to be ‘community hub’ for local produce https://t.co/KQTgztancm

58-year-old “King Kazu” Kazuyoshi Miura set to extend his record-breaking career into a 41st professional season with Fukushima United, defying retirement once again. 🍷⚽️🇯🇵

https://t.co/xBObc3CLwS

https://t.co/pQHoMWPRlf

Apparently 'go on then, f**k off' isn't a recognised clearance to pilots waiting to take off. You learn something new every day in this job.

I think I've been in that one...😀

I feel seen.

Lane of the day 🍃🌳🌿