La Meme Etoffe

@NigelSlater The tulips are so beautiful!

Ducks on a cold glass roof.

Dick Van Dyke singing "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in a restaurant will cheer you up no end

And this... twitter.com/ItsProxcey/sta…

This gets you in the heart. It’s sadly ancient and beautiful. Parisians singing as they watch the Notre Dame cathedral burn. What else can they do?

Shut up or Britain will vote for it

A reminder today of the 19th century word 'arsle': to go backwards on a task or mission rather than forward, to the point where you wonder why you started it in the first place (I arsle, you arsle, we are ars(e)ling, etc.).

The 12% of librarians who will wear a Santa suit this week finally understand the jokes about "other duties as assigned"

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but you can never have enough of ‘snudging’, a word from the 1600s for ‘remaining snug and quiet; nestling’.

If you say "Dewey" 3 times he'll magically appear and mansplain something about library science

How about Sir Ronald Ross, the UK's 1st Nobel Prize laureate (1902, Medicine) for proving #malaria transmission to humans (and #LSTM's first lecturer btw) New £50 note: Bank of England asks public to nominate scientist theguardian.com/business/2018/…

So true!!

Word of the morning so far: snudge, a 17th century verb for 'remaining quiet and snug', i.e. nestling with little prospect of moving anywhere.

'A mosquito was heard to complain That a chemist had poisoned his brain The cause of his sorrow Was paradichloro Diphenyltrichloroethane' (Anon.) #NationalPoetryDay >CB

This morning: #ScriFri 8.50AM on @bbcmerseyside. Presenter Tony Snell talking to project leader @lizjstewart and #LSTM's Dr Adam Roberts on the archaeological dig on Pembroke Place and why it is being swabbed!

My word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’: a 19th century wooden toy puppet whose limbs jerk about at the whim of the puppet master. It soon became used for a politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

@itsasheactually @salihughes Oh god, Good enough has just come on the radio as I'm reading this arghhhhh!!! *runs to turn it off*

@salihughes Dodgy - Good Enough Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity Any Aussie soap theme tune

Blackburne House is looking for women to read out quotes/poetry in line with these years theme #vote100. All we require is just five minutes of your time. Interested in taking part, please get in touch. #BlackburneHouse #letourvoicesbeheard #futureisfemale