Niall Murray
@niallmurray.bsky.social
Would rather be at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
I do not expect @timdowling.bsky.social to account for an entire nation's cuisine but how is putting pudding on the same plate as your roast dinner different from Rachel's meat trifle? HOW?
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
Fluffy and fabulous! 17 ways with marshmallows – from cheesecake to salad to an espresso martini
They come into their own around Thanksgiving in the US, used alongside savoury dishes, as well as in desserts. Now is the time to try them with sweet potatoes, in a strawberry mousse, or even with sou...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I do not expect @timdowling.bsky.social to account for an entire nation's cuisine but how is putting pudding on the same plate as your roast dinner different from Rachel's meat trifle? HOW?
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
The deep questions.
Wherfor are the pajamas of a catte so goode but the breakfaste of a dogge so badde?
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The deep questions.
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I sent this to Liz Truss and now she's watching Goldfinger.
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I sent this to Liz Truss and now she's watching Goldfinger.
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Always found it pretty cool that there's a medieval demon of typos
Tutivillus Is Watching You
For medieval scribes, mistakes couldn’t be easily shrugged off, as Tutivillus, the stickler demon, was always looking over their shoulders.
By: Amelia Soth
daily.jstor.org/tutivillus-i...
At PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#books #old_manuscripts
For medieval scribes, mistakes couldn’t be easily shrugged off, as Tutivillus, the stickler demon, was always looking over their shoulders.
By: Amelia Soth
daily.jstor.org/tutivillus-i...
At PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#books #old_manuscripts
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Always found it pretty cool that there's a medieval demon of typos
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Princess Diana is making me produce sounds like a blocked drain
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Princess Diana is making me produce sounds like a blocked drain
@timdowling.bsky.social has been adventuring with jelly and it looks like Pertwee-era Doctor Who communing with an alien ambassador who might be a baddie.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@timdowling.bsky.social has been adventuring with jelly and it looks like Pertwee-era Doctor Who communing with an alien ambassador who might be a baddie.
I’ve just finished Havoc by Rebecca Wait; an utter hoot, clever, thoughtful, really rather tender, awfully well written and did I mention it’s a hoot?
Do read it. Although if it turns out you don’t love Louise Adler with every fibre of your being I’m afraid we can never be friends.
💙📚
Do read it. Although if it turns out you don’t love Louise Adler with every fibre of your being I’m afraid we can never be friends.
💙📚
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’ve just finished Havoc by Rebecca Wait; an utter hoot, clever, thoughtful, really rather tender, awfully well written and did I mention it’s a hoot?
Do read it. Although if it turns out you don’t love Louise Adler with every fibre of your being I’m afraid we can never be friends.
💙📚
Do read it. Although if it turns out you don’t love Louise Adler with every fibre of your being I’m afraid we can never be friends.
💙📚
It’s The Day After and I can offer you only this.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people get in their own heads a bit.
Not over it.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people get in their own heads a bit.
Not over it.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It’s The Day After and I can offer you only this.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people get in their own heads a bit.
Not over it.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people get in their own heads a bit.
Not over it.
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Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
We finally did! Don’t think I can realistically claim credit though. 😆
Thank you @trientertainment.bsky.social and Marina and Richard; your Traitors eps were as big an event as the show itself. 😍
Thank you @trientertainment.bsky.social and Marina and Richard; your Traitors eps were as big an event as the show itself. 😍
@trientertainment.bsky.social All due adoration for the Traitors episodes but... You went to Marina's HOUSE and we didn't see the BOOKSHELVES???
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We finally did! Don’t think I can realistically claim credit though. 😆
Thank you @trientertainment.bsky.social and Marina and Richard; your Traitors eps were as big an event as the show itself. 😍
Thank you @trientertainment.bsky.social and Marina and Richard; your Traitors eps were as big an event as the show itself. 😍
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What would be a good name for a bad pub?
“The Dog Returns.”
“The Dog Returns.”
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
What would be a good name for a bad pub?
“The Dog Returns.”
“The Dog Returns.”
Drinking from the wrong side of the glass is the one thing that reliably cures hiccups* for me.
How does that work, then?
* Actually prefer the spelling ‘hiccoughs’ but don’t want to sound too, y’know, fogey.
How does that work, then?
* Actually prefer the spelling ‘hiccoughs’ but don’t want to sound too, y’know, fogey.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Drinking from the wrong side of the glass is the one thing that reliably cures hiccups* for me.
How does that work, then?
* Actually prefer the spelling ‘hiccoughs’ but don’t want to sound too, y’know, fogey.
How does that work, then?
* Actually prefer the spelling ‘hiccoughs’ but don’t want to sound too, y’know, fogey.
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No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
Got to love this headline.
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Got to love this headline.
YES PLEASE!
Can someone in BBC Radio 4 broadcast the wonderful Ladies of Letters starring Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Ladies of Letters
Two mature ladies share a sometimes rocky relationship via their barbed correspondence.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
YES PLEASE!
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
Some Like It Shot
I see you and raise you when a Canadian cinema tried to sell it as a buddy movie/romcom
October 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Some Like It Shot
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Are thy dailye worke taskes tedious and mundane? Add "space" to them! Suddenlye you are livinge the science fictioun future -- goinge to space workeshoppes, sendinge space emayles, figuringe out your space travel reimbursement formes.
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Are thy dailye worke taskes tedious and mundane? Add "space" to them! Suddenlye you are livinge the science fictioun future -- goinge to space workeshoppes, sendinge space emayles, figuringe out your space travel reimbursement formes.
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There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
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Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.
October 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.
@trientertainment.bsky.social All due adoration for the Traitors episodes but... You went to Marina's HOUSE and we didn't see the BOOKSHELVES???
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
@trientertainment.bsky.social All due adoration for the Traitors episodes but... You went to Marina's HOUSE and we didn't see the BOOKSHELVES???
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A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
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I’m finding this unreasonably funny
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’m finding this unreasonably funny