Maria Thomas

A NYE appropriate picture too!

We have gigantic creatures in the sea which can sing for hours and have arteries so big you can crawl through them. (whales) We have birds that fly 50,000 miles every year. From the antarctic to the arctic and back again. (arctic tern) We have living creatures which never get old and never die naturally. (jellyfish) We have animals which you can force through a sieve, and they can reassemble themselves. (sponges) We have an ancient line of animals which once had 30 or more successful species, and has gone extinct down to just one single representative, and that representative has conquered the entire world (us). We have horrors that look just like rocks and if you step on them your whole world becomes agonizing pain. (toadfish) We have animals who hide inside other animals, and when you eat that animal, they enter your intestines and live there. (tapeworms) We have plants which live on other plants and never touch the ground. There's a fruit tree that grows around another tree, and eventually kills and replaces it. (strangler fig) We have gliding lizards, marsupials, snakes, frogs, and rodents. What the heck do you need fairies for?

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats. And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.

I have stolen 12T of KitKats that were in transit and which you were probably hoping to buy in Poland forgive me the world is stressful and I needed a break

Respectfully, I don't think cooking together is romantic. Please move tf out of my way. One person cooks, the other sits at the counter and drinks wine and says things like "that smells so good" or "I love the things you cook."

@sienna_rothery I haven’t done either of these yet but 2 places I want to visit are the Guildhall Gallery and the Mithraeum - both in the City

i have a week off, in london, & plan to do all the things that you never end up doing when you’re working. freud’s house in hampstead, sir john soane’s house, a few piano bars. anyone have any recommendations?

Emboldened by the success of the KitKat heist, the gang foolishly went after 12 tons of Ferrero Rocher.

The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word ‘fuck’, the moon and the sea.

One of my favourite pieces in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican: a statue that first appears to be a beggar, transforming into an angel as you move around it - by Timothy Schmalz.

Which wine pairs best with finding out my in-laws are staying a day longer than I thought??

🇺🇸🇯🇵 Everyone in Japan knows "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver. We cover it all the time so I hope our American friends can appreciate it.

One of my favourite sketches ever

Anthony Quinn & Alan Bates perform ”Zorbas Dance” in ”Zorba the Greek” (1964)!🕺

Madonna’s mesmerizing 1998 Ray of Light photoshoot shot by Mario Testino, a thread

There’s a dentist in Sydney, Australia who takes a speed boat out to the Great Barrier Reef to scuba dive and steal fish to give to his niece who promptly kills them