Deirdre Rusling

I keep a stash of abandoned umbrellas in the shop in case a customer needs to borrow one. A lady just returned one saying, "I wondered why I was getting funny looks." If anyone needs me, I've emigrated 🙈

@GovParsonMO #SaveMarcellus The public, the victim’s family and the St Louis county prosecuting attorney’s office don't want this execution. The death penalty kills innocent people. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

@Parisbob2001 Cheers Robert! Ironically I seem to remember being a Deirdre at UUC was liberating, no longer the only one in the school, not even the only one in the room, everyone could spell my name, everyone could pronounce it, and no one thought it was a joke. Or maybe they did?

Why 'Deirdre' is the worst thing one human being can call another. A heart-broken plea to stop the calumny.

1970s #DoctorWho 'Colony in Space' finds colonists on an alien world. The strange maps on the walls are actually of Inverclyde, and the Ayrshire coastline from Ardrossan to Troon. BBC Art Dept: "It's Scotland, no-one will recognise it."

@GaspardWinckler would 100% have retweeted this. He had the Great Bear on his living room wall for decades.

@E4Tweets Really handy you posted this. I was coming on here to ask if you'll be showing S8 of Modern Family. I have been checking for a few months and it only ever seems available on Disney while all other series have been on E4 at some point.

Imagine him being told he has to scan a QR code to order at a restaurant

Surely parents who are sending their kids to private school but can't afford to pay VAT just need to learn to budget?

Maybe, instead of National Service for 18 year olds they should introduce national service for MPs. They all have to do several weeks volunteering in a school, GP, hospital, care home, social care and police within their first 12 months in office.

Precisely why I never get involved with magic tricks. You may need to watch this more than once.

@FinishedZine Goth Opera, for the title alone

What was the first expanded Whoniverse #DoctorWho book you bought? I was there from the start. This came out a day before my 17th birthday in 1991.

@DBanksy @petepaphides I'm actually sorry to hear they played it live together as from the video I kind of hoped they never met at any point.

@petepaphides Mel C does some lovely harmonies in the latter half of the song too. I remember them performing it live and acoustic on TGI Friday and blimey she’s got a great voice.

I took a year off listening to When You’re Gone by Bryan Adams & Mel C so I could love it just as much as I did the first time. I’ve just come back to it. I don’t think there’s a thing you could improve about it. I bet it took no time to write as well. You can hear that velocity.

One of the great achievements of the last 20 years is to prevent children from getting hold of free books. We did this by closing hundreds of libraries and sacking thousands of librarians.

@lccmunicipal @Relate_charity Would love to see the content!

@BridgeBooksDro1 youtu.be/zdWI5OksQNI?si…

I forgot to show you Today's Bookselling Footwear! I can hear some of you wailing from here at missing this life-changing information. Fear not, here they are. The silver cowboy ankle boots.

@AlanLaw Yep, it's brutal.particularly hard on my parents recently.