Jane Charman
@janeeecharman.bsky.social
Country vicar, all weathers, please close the gate
Good morning skylarks. No, the robin on your bird feeder isn’t a loved one trying to get in touch with you from beyond the grave, he’s there for the snax 🤷♀️
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Good morning skylarks. No, the robin on your bird feeder isn’t a loved one trying to get in touch with you from beyond the grave, he’s there for the snax 🤷♀️
Good morning skylarks. Just finished reading ‘Bohemia in London’, an early work by the multi faceted Arthur Ransome. A beautiful little study of literary and artistic life in Chelsea, Soho and Hampstead in his own young days, do find a copy if you can.
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Good morning skylarks. Just finished reading ‘Bohemia in London’, an early work by the multi faceted Arthur Ransome. A beautiful little study of literary and artistic life in Chelsea, Soho and Hampstead in his own young days, do find a copy if you can.
Farewell regular flat white. 'Functional' coffees are hitting the high street www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yep, for an extra £ you can add collagen powder to your coffee even though we know it can’t survive the digestive process or make it to any parts of your body that might need collagen 🤷♀️
Yep, for an extra £ you can add collagen powder to your coffee even though we know it can’t survive the digestive process or make it to any parts of your body that might need collagen 🤷♀️
Do mushroom and protein 'functional' coffees have health benefits?
Coffees made with extra ingredients like mushrooms, protein and collagen are known as "functional coffees".
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Farewell regular flat white. 'Functional' coffees are hitting the high street www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yep, for an extra £ you can add collagen powder to your coffee even though we know it can’t survive the digestive process or make it to any parts of your body that might need collagen 🤷♀️
Yep, for an extra £ you can add collagen powder to your coffee even though we know it can’t survive the digestive process or make it to any parts of your body that might need collagen 🤷♀️
Hands up anyone who thinks a new Chinese mega embassy in central London is a really good idea 😳
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hands up anyone who thinks a new Chinese mega embassy in central London is a really good idea 😳
Now do coat hangers 🤔
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Now do coat hangers 🤔
The North wind hath blown and we have had snow. Must put out some iron rations for my robin.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The North wind hath blown and we have had snow. Must put out some iron rations for my robin.
X is down. I thought you’d all like to know that.
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
X is down. I thought you’d all like to know that.
Good afternoon churchy skylarks. Have you ordered the candles for your Advent Wreath? Have you? Have you?
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good afternoon churchy skylarks. Have you ordered the candles for your Advent Wreath? Have you? Have you?
Terry’s Chocolate Oranges were not the only fruit who knew
Terry’s of York’s famous Chocolate Orange was born in 1932. Its Chocolate Apple, launched in 1926 (which apparently didn't taste of apple), was discontinued in 1954 to allow more Oranges to be produced.
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Terry’s Chocolate Oranges were not the only fruit who knew
On Saturday our MP asked a hall full of church leaders and churchgoers whether they’d be happy in principle to pay more income tax to fund public services and every hand went up just thought you’d like to know that
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
On Saturday our MP asked a hall full of church leaders and churchgoers whether they’d be happy in principle to pay more income tax to fund public services and every hand went up just thought you’d like to know that
Chick-fil-A is such a weird name for a chicken sandwich shop. What does it mean? How is it pronounced? Is there a Chick-fil-B?
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Chick-fil-A is such a weird name for a chicken sandwich shop. What does it mean? How is it pronounced? Is there a Chick-fil-B?
It’s about time …
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It’s about time …
Well this Christmas I’m taking a stand against the term ‘must-haves’. Food, clothing and shelter are ‘must-haves’. The rest are ‘devices you desire’.
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Well this Christmas I’m taking a stand against the term ‘must-haves’. Food, clothing and shelter are ‘must-haves’. The rest are ‘devices you desire’.
Good morning etymological skylarks. When you host a party do you (a) give it, (b) hold it, (c) throw it or (d) lay it on?
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Good morning etymological skylarks. When you host a party do you (a) give it, (b) hold it, (c) throw it or (d) lay it on?
A sovereign cough remedy keeps being recommended to me by my more rural Cumbrian parishioners. Slice an onion, coat it in sugar, leave for several hours then knock back the resulting ‘syrup’. Have any skylarks actually tried this?
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A sovereign cough remedy keeps being recommended to me by my more rural Cumbrian parishioners. Slice an onion, coat it in sugar, leave for several hours then knock back the resulting ‘syrup’. Have any skylarks actually tried this?
Two more sleeps to the next Archbishop of Canterbury …
October 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Two more sleeps to the next Archbishop of Canterbury …
Couldn’t have put it better myself 😊
Pinchly-punchit, firstly monthlode and whitelymost bunnyfloppers there.
Seasol of mistyfole and mellowy fruitlode - Greety-ho to Octoble!
Deep joy.
Seasol of mistyfole and mellowy fruitlode - Greety-ho to Octoble!
Deep joy.
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Couldn’t have put it better myself 😊
The debate about whether to ‘recognise’ Palestine is a pure post modern classic. The answer doesn’t seem to depend on whether it exists or not but on how we feel about it. 🤔
September 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The debate about whether to ‘recognise’ Palestine is a pure post modern classic. The answer doesn’t seem to depend on whether it exists or not but on how we feel about it. 🤔
Don’t let anyone tell you that cats are fastidious. I just watched one snarf down a live mouse followed by the remains of the jam tart I’d put out for the birds 🤢
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Don’t let anyone tell you that cats are fastidious. I just watched one snarf down a live mouse followed by the remains of the jam tart I’d put out for the birds 🤢
Good morning, churchy skylarks. Is racism the fuel behind recent church growth? Is your church filling up with right wing nationalists? Is the Quiet Revival about to become noisy?
September 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Good morning, churchy skylarks. Is racism the fuel behind recent church growth? Is your church filling up with right wing nationalists? Is the Quiet Revival about to become noisy?
Good morning Skylarks. Is it too early to enquire about pumpkins, how they’re swellin’, will there be a glut or a shortage this year etc
September 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Good morning Skylarks. Is it too early to enquire about pumpkins, how they’re swellin’, will there be a glut or a shortage this year etc
This wins the internet today 😆
Happy Methodist New Year to those that celebrate.
September 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This wins the internet today 😆
Good evening Skylarks. Is there anyone out there who’ll own up to having eaten a doggy ice cream by mistake? (And before you ask, no, I haven’t !)
August 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Good evening Skylarks. Is there anyone out there who’ll own up to having eaten a doggy ice cream by mistake? (And before you ask, no, I haven’t !)
Reposted by Jane Charman
What could possibly go wrong?
August 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
An evening stroll to the top of Sale Fell 😊
August 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
An evening stroll to the top of Sale Fell 😊