Angela Holmes

@AvonandsomerRob No but I've just looked up what Samuel Pepys was doing on this day and he said he was so hot last night he couldn't sleep

So Global Boiling lasted 48 hours and Britain is now bracing for thunder and heavy rain. Is it raining where YOU are yet? 🌧

@vkgscotland1 My husband and I have always had separate bank accounts and neither of us could say exactly what the other earns. Stops any arguments about my books and his clothes

On the latest “Sturgeon must have known ” unionist obsession, and meltdown My wife and I have separate bank accounts, and have no idea what we both buy for ourselves or others. So, what’s the big deal? 🤷🏼‍♂️

@anyabike To be fair they look fairly ordinary. I wouldn't look at then and think £2000

I mean, you would notice, wouldn't you? Did he just take them out to look at when Sturgeon wasn't there?

@Medievalhtybuff Every time he is mentioned I can't help but think of the venomous Bede thanks to 1066 and All That

The Venerable Bede is trending. There is hope for social media after all.

@RadioGenoa I used to do that when I was four

Liberal women are a problem. Let's reopen psychiatric hospitals.

@Ade_Dohyeen We always slept apart as I snore, but we had sex all the time. The two things are very different

My parents slept in separate rooms my whole childhood. I asked my dad about it once. He said they made a deal early because my mum snores and he tosses. He said they sat down one evening and talked it through like a business meeting. His words. He said the first night apart they both slept like babies. He said they were happier than they had ever been. He never told people. Because when he said separate rooms they said oh I'm sorry. He said he was never sorry. He was just tired of explaining that love does not have to mean sharing a blanket. They are still married 39 years later.

@sharon_wisner Yes the Subalterns love song by Betjeman, it conjures up a forgotten England

There was a discussion tonight. It was suggested that only old people have favourite poems, only old people have favourite novels, plays, & even films. Can this be true? Does anyone have a favourite poem? Do you? Thoughts?

@RabbiPoupko Enemas?

I am not a doctor. Is there someone who can explain to me the medical use of all these materials found in the Shifa hospital in Gaza?

@KeepMovingTara My grandparents

What’s something from your grandparents’ house you wish you still had?

@Autistic_Lauren My feet are cold, but my house is surrounded by trees

Any fellow British autistics struggling with the heat this weekend? 🥵

@VinoNStrosGal Putting an audiobook on loud in the bathroom takes away some of the concentration on the difficulty which helps me

I’m going to let myself get personal for a minute. Today is shower day. If you had asked me three and a half years ago what the hardest part of my day would ever be, I would have laughed if someone said: “Taking a shower.” A shower? Something warm. Something comforting. Something people associate with relaxing after a long day. Three and a half years ago, I would have thought walking through soft sand at Clearwater Beach in the Florida heat, feeling the sun on my skin, the breeze coming off the water, playing two-on-two volleyball, running, pushing my body, would be harder. It isn’t. The shower became harder. Because for many people living with chronic illness and chronic pain, there are mountains hidden inside ordinary things. Standing upright. Heat. Pain. Dizziness. Heart rate. Fatigue. The quiet calculation that starts before the water is even turned on. “Do I have enough in me today?” People see a shower and see ten minutes. Some of us see an obstacle course. And unless you’ve lived it, I don’t think people understand the grief that comes with watching something that once meant comfort become something you mentally prepare for. To those living this too, I want to hear from you. What are your shower-day hacks? Shower chairs? Cooling tricks? Music? Breaking it into steps? Resting before and after? Jump into the replies. No judgment. No explaining yourself. Just people who understand the things the rest of the world often never sees.

@ericmmatheny They know nothing. What exactly is being taught in schools. People can barely string a sentence together

Legitimately curious to hear your thoughts… In your day-to-day interactions with people, do you find that people are less intelligent today than in years past?

@ChunghaNeuer @danhathersage Pity I wasn't born then, I'd be lovely

@FishyFishkin @danhathersage Yes but,most medieval representations still depict women as relatively thin. But what was valued was mainly a curvier lower body, a slightly rounded stomach and wider hips as signs of fertility.It was essentially a pear-shaped ideal:slim on top and wider on the bottom.

Funerary effigy of Anne of Bohemia, queen consort of Richard II. Over 600 years old. Used at her funeral on 3 August 1394. And yes, I did get jumpscared by her.

@hilltopjennifer She's still not got the hang of scones. Needs the good old fashioned Bero book

What fresh hell is this? Just when you thought Meghan Markle had run out of embarrassing ideas for her basic products… Behold her latest culinary crime: a hard, dry-looking scone - weirdly fashioned to look like a burger - overpowered by cream and oozing honey, of all things. 🤮 Even those ridiculously unnecessary flower sprinkles are trying to make a break for it. 😬 #AsEverAFail

@beckicb13 If you want to be loved be lovable

@richardosman Wow

Your reminder that if West Ham are relegated today, then next season will be the first season in the entire 138-year history of the English top flight without a team beginning with the letter W.

@portraitinflesh I've never tried because it does look a bit of a faff

@FishyFishkin You're the fourth or fifth person to tell me this, and I'm not going to gainsay you. But the core point remains: just about any tinned bean is better than 99.9% of homemade attempts.

YES, this. Heinz have perfected baked beans, and the supermarket own brands aren't far behind. There's no call to make them in-house, unless you're fetishizing unnecessary effort for its own sake.

@RushlowGrace It's very hard, look after yourself, I'm sure he would have wanted that

I’m not going to be on for a couple days my husband passed away at 7:50 tonight

@lanechanged So do I, so it fits in my mouth

I break the spaghetti so it fits into the cooking pot. Please don't block me.