Catherine Benson

@positivityofx Marty, what have they done to you?!

@LinkedInLunat1c Is Mike’s resume about to have an unexplained gap of about 20 years with good behaviour?

Your girlfriend was murdered. Now you use her story as engagement bait. Not sure that emotional development has gotten very far…

@ArianeSherine Congratulations! 🥂

Just married! So happy to be Mrs Ariane Sherine Juniper. Can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with this wonderful man.

@ArianeSherine You look good in both pics! But well done 👍

Before and after a year of Mounjaro.

@LBFlyawayhome “Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch”

Ladybird cover stories, 1962-3 The Junior Science series Artist: Harry Wingfield

FYI the Kurdish barber trimmed my eyebrows today.

@TheStingisBack @ThrillaRilla369 I’m so sorry. Sending you strength.

Have done. Long story short. Many years ago, my nephew sadly died from Leukemia. My sister associated my son, who was born around the same time as her son's diagnosis, as some kind of harbinger of doom. She irrationally blamed my baby son for the death of hers, as if two boys couldn't exist in the same universe. My two children, boy and girl, were banned from the funeral. When I told my sister we had no one to look after my kids she suggested we lock my 2 and 3 year old son and daughter in the back of my car in a car park of the crematorium for an hour. When I said I wasn't going to do that, she said, "sometimes you have to let them go." That's was the last in a long line of her showing utter contempt for my children, so I decided to walk away from her. Last year, my mum died. As she was slowly losing mental capacity my sister and my aunty decided they'd put a wedge between my mum and her grandchildren (my kids), who had done nothing but love their grandma. My mum was told that amongst other things that I was poisoning her and that I was stealing money from her, that I was being sued for plagiarism and many more outlandish lies. obviously I was doing none of these things, but my mum as her mind was failing believed every word. The last time my 11 year old daughter saw her grandma, a finger was jabbed in her face by the dying woman that she loved as her grandma said, "Why have you brought her? I don't want to see her again." This was devastating for my daughter who cried on the drive home. Later that week, my mum rang me and said, "I'm discarding you and the kids." These were the last words my mum ever said to me. A couple of weeks after, I found out she was at end of life, so I went to see her but she was so close to the end that she couldn't speak. I later found out she had been in the hospital for for over 10 days but I hadn't been informed because the hospital had no idea she had a son, because my sister and aunty never told them. This had been a running theme throughout her illness. None of the hospitals were told she had a son. She died soon after... my aunty told everybody in her phone 24 hours before she told me. When she finally got around to it, she sent me this message, "My sister died yesterday." No, "sorry, but your mum died..." or maybe mention her name, or personalise it in any way, just, "my sister died yesterday." My sister and aunty have both destroyed any good memory my children may have had of their grandma. A woman who would see them every week and who they loved with all of their hearts. My sister and aunty both weaponised my mum's lack of mental capacity to destroy the relationship she had with her grandchildren, an act so callous and cruel that it defies comprehension. Pure evil for evil's sake. So no, I don't speak to my sister or my aunty and I feel perfectly fine about it. Toxic is toxic, even if you're related to it. Sad but true.... thanks for reading.

Would you cut off a family member to protect your peace?

@FTMag A cover of beauty

Sneak peek 👀 of this weekend's cover Look out for the story on Saturday at ft.trib.al/inMw9bu

@DoomSausages @dank_ackroyd

@bensoncatherine @dank_ackroyd No denial, I note. Catherine / Nigel.

Just said ‘alright Lord Snooty’ because someone’s got a box of Thorntons

Of all the benefits brought to us by Mounjaro, the best is that it’s bringing the word ‘norks’ back into the lexicon.

@dank_ackroyd I suspect no police officer has said, “Who do you think you are? Nigel Mansell?” for far too long

Not enough people calling someone ‘Lord Snooty’ anymore when they see them doing something vaguely posh like booking a P&O cruise or using a bag from the one time they went to Harrods in 1998

Fun fact: the costumes in Megaforce were designed by Mattel.

Battletruck (1982). A Kiwi take on Mad Max, even if the lead actors are all American. Michael Beck battles James Wainwright after the Oil Wars leave the world in desperation. Shot on the Central Otago plains of New Zealand it's all action, lots of carnage and the aforementioned battletruck smashes everything in its path. John Ratzenberger's in it too!

@GDRvisuals Fab photo

Halle-Neustadt, 1971.

@RJdeMans @GDRvisuals @dieworkwear Ah, faux pas! I should have checked first

@bensoncatherine @GDRvisuals @dieworkwear derek actually beat me to it

Declassified photos of Stasi agents modeling undercover disguises.

@GDRvisuals @RJdeMans

@vashikoo What the hell??!!

This two-hour 1968 made-for-TV motion picture was the debut of a new TV series that ran for 12 years. Here's the wild intro scene and credit sequence for that famous show...🌊

@LBFlyawayhome Says a lot about out my lack of observation that I spotted the horizontal toadstool before seeing there’s a bloody great rhino.

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

@vashikoo Cool!

RONIN (1998) A sneaky 'hidden cut' occurs when an extra walks past the camera to wipe the frame. The first shot is one location and the second shot is in a completely different part of the French town. A cool way to seamlessly connect different real-world locations.

@DrRebeccaTidy I’m so sorry. Sending strength.

Been offline for a while. I'm fine, but it’s been a challenging few months of palliative care at home for a family member who’s now died. My daughter was seriously injured at school too. And I had to keep my letting business & journalism going, as a single mum with no support.