Ruth

@bouledenerfs.bsky.social

The black and white cat is called Penny Views from my own brain and not my employer's

My mum innocently asked me if I'd listened to "What Happened to Aldrich Kemp?" (almost) and I had to restrain myself from doing a Julian Simpson extended universe conspiracy pinboard.

What I love about all train companies is they all believe very deeply that they have Japanese or Swiss levels of reliability when they plan your transfer time. Ten minutes interchange at Florence, Trenitalia? Really? Ten minutes at Darlington, LNER? Seriously?

Cannot get my head around Andy Burnham being PM, not as a political statement but I can't compute that he's done the letters of last resort etc. Better not get a concussion any time soon.

*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.

Tried to explain to my kid what travelling abroad was like in the pandemic and it started “well there was this guy called Grant Shapps,.. every Thursday before your holiday he would post on… this thing called Twitter… his personal account… then you’d cancel your flight”. And you just sound MENTAL.