My local small supermarket (Co-op) has a “donate to charity” button. Fuck that! I choose my donations thankyouverymuch. And I am pretty generous.

I just had a quick look on Amazon and you can still buy them. But what caught my eye on the listing I looked at, Conversations With Friends, has this warning:

Product Safety

This product is subject to specific additional safety warnings

Warning:Only for domestic use

What on earth?

That aside, this whole Palestine Action business is such obvious bullshit. I mean, this is a country that has decades of experience of actual terrorism, with bombs and bloodshed galore. People who support Palestine Action aren’t terrorists. Everyone knows they aren’t. But our arms dealers need those shekels, so here we are.

If you really want to horrify yourself, try shining a UV torch around your bathroom.

Is that the one in the airport? It’s fantastic.

Greetings cards predate Hallmark by quite a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting_card

≽^•⩊•≼

About you We haven’t saved anything yet.

Phew.

Yes Mr Karp, I think you’re the village idiot. Next question.

It’s the same as with people dating at any age. Is the new partner a good person? Are there any red flags? In the end though, adults make their own choices. It really is none of your business - and I say that as kindly as possible.

I’m thrilled for them. It’s great to see my stepfather so happy. He was a really good husband to my mum.

I met someone once who had “invested” in these. Like, thousands of pounds. He thought he was super clever, talked down to us because we were so far out of the loop. I do wonder what happened to him. Poor guy.

My mother remarried later in life. She met my stepfather at a widow and widowers club and they were together for about 30 years before she died. He recently married again at the age of 92. He was younger than my mother, but his new wife is younger than him, at 70. She’s younger than me! They met through church, I believe.

That’s the key I think - meeting in person, through social clubs and activities or hobbies.

Hard agree.

That’s an obituary rather than a news story, and yes, it would have been ready to go.

I used to work for a newspaper and one of the little annual jobs was updating the Queen Mother’s eight-page obituary supplement. She died aged 101.

Port is left (and red, same as port wine) - both words have the same number of letters. Starboard is right (and green). But that’s from the cox’s viewpoint - for us rowers, facing the cox, port is on the right. Does my head in every time.

It’s a trap!!!

Oh that reminds me of the time my then boyfriend, a mathematician, tried to teach me maths. It was like teaching someone French by reading out a few pages of Sartre’s La nausée, then saying “OK, that’s the basics covered…”

YUM.

I’m studying insects at the moment and came across a couple of cracking beetles:

Instructions

1. Depending on the recipes you choose, the taste can vastly differ.

2. For authentic results, it is important to choose a recipe that will highlight the original flavor.

Still none the wiser! But thanks anyway.