Telephonium is an element?

All done now! In typical auntly fashion, she moved a package of cleaning cloths (at least 25 years old judging by the price tag) to hand me a quarter of a t-shirt, neatly ironed, to wipe my hands on.

Her friend phoned. "Yes, we're painting the shed. Well, I'm painting but she's helping with the high bits. The young people need to learn to maintain a house for if they ever buy one."

I'm 41. And was a lecturer in building conservation.

How to tell she's tired of painting: she dumped her tin and mine together to "consolidate them for storage", then decided there's not much she can do at the moment to help with no paint. Now she is deciding which plants I need to bring indoors for winter.

I simply sanded the doors first and set them up at comfortable working height "to paint later", and she walked right into my trap.

And funded through the taxpayer, too!

Probably shorthand for "Essential criteria: must be the mayor's future son-in-law".

Well done him for realising what's happening, getting out, and communicating about it!

Postillon, the German satire "newspaper", ran with the headline "immigration officers fail: felon with international warrant easily enters US".

Much appreciated! Our time will come again.

My PhD is in methods for documenting knowledge provenance, authenticity and reproducibility in historical research.

I feel like Cassandra shouting into the void here.

Especially when people tell me I can work faster with the lying & making shit up machine.

I find their relationship super creepy. In many ways, he's grooming her. She may be physically an adult but starts out with the naiveté of a child and he exploits that. He puts her in the skintight catsuit, keeps commenting on her body and crosses so many professional boundaries...

I wasn't born yet, but just reaching the stage where I may have been hearing the news on the radio...

I have weird duck feet where I need the front width in men's shoes but then I slide around in the heel because it's too wide. But women's shoes tend to squish my toes.

And extra heavy duty thread!

Majestic!