Emma Wright
@editorialgirl.co.uk
No longer an editor or a girl. Probably taller than you were expecting.
![Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor.
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LUBBOCK:
And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce
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LUBBOCK:
The invention of ‘bank holidays’!
Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest.
AUDIENCE:
CLAP CLAP CLAP
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LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar):
My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter...
and then another straight after in May...
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LUBBOCK:
And then - what the hell - another one in May!
And then one in August!
AUDIENCE:
Hurrah!
5
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
So many, Sir John?
LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic)
Life is for living, man!
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
And then in the Autumn, sir….?
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[Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor]
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LUBBOCK:
Ugh.
[his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out]
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LUBBOCK:
OK that'll do
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
What?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer…
LUBBOCK:
Yeah
no more bank holidays till Christmas.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe?
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LUBBOCK:
It's so gross
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Rollo can’t help it!
[dog continues to scoot across floor]
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Just logged in to see when I joined. It was 23 years, 5 months and 25 days ago, apparently.
b3ta@b3ta.com · 2w ago25 years ago today B3ta launched Well, 25 years ago today, we launched the version of the website you are familiar with, we were going for at least three months beforehand, if you check newsletter dates on issue 1. However most b3tans look at the board post date - so happy birthday us. Sort of.
I'm looking for furniture for my office but it seems that "vintage" these days ONLY means mid century modern. No, I don't want a sleek G Plan sideboard! Where my fussy gothic Victorian cabinets at?!
Can we talk about the fact that Joe Lycett has gone from championing Birmingham - insisting his Friday night show must be made here, and offering paid apprenticeships to local people - to just... Making it in London and not mentioning Birmingham at all? What happened?
[The Mamas and The Papas, But They're Dogs] 🎵All the leavs are grey 🎵(All the leaves are grey) 🎵And the sky is grey 🎵(And the sky is grey) 🎵I've been for a walk *entire band loses their fucking minds*
Joanne could have done something similar if she wasn't spending her money on being a twot x
@cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · last mo.How the BBC is reporting Dolly Parton's passing.
Right, so, how do we get this to happen in Birmingham? www.zachklein.com/garden/
San Francisco Sidewalk Garden Transformation
Neglected concrete replaced with a lush, zero-water garden in the middle of a big city.
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Sometimes when a post gets a very "Bluesky" response - as this one rightly has - I go to Twitter and Facebook to see what people outside of my bubble think. But I'll never know, because this seems to be the only channel where the Mayor's account doesn't limit replies. 🤔
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · last mo.“The wand chooses the wizard.” 🪄 And in this case, it chose Oxford Street. Congratulations to Warner Bros on the UK’s largest Harry Potter shop. Another brilliant new destination for the West End, and proof that Oxford Street is well and truly on the up.
I presume this plane is filming for the athletics (and probably not going to Antwerp), but how much will it really see from 28,000 feet?
I think I need to stop reading about other people. The stupidity is relentless. Under stories about people losing their homes in fires, there are multiple people arguing that "it was a disposable barbecue - nothing to do with so-called climate change!"
Obvs I'm biased but blimey. The gov's emergency alert team needs a copywriter. Way too much text! Break it up! You need a 1-2 word headline (Wildfires!), then an obvious call to action ("do not use..."). THEN you can go into the whole "even a small flame" thing.
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
In 1999 I had some eclipse glasses and I thought "I'll keep these for the next one". Now, what do you mean I can't find them?? It's only been ...oh
Oh look, it's me. Interrupting my husband, as per.
Moselele@moselele.co.uk · 2mo agoHere's an extract from a short film all about us. Founder Daz Wright and his wife Emma talk about what they think this ukulele group is really all about. Watch the whole thing (<10mins) at www.errolbrown.co.uk/moselele-3/
Went swimming! Came home and ate a whole burrata. Is that winning? It feels like winning. My GP probably wouldn't agree.
I'll tell you this for nothing: it's too hot to be cooking sausages.
We're in a house on a harbour in a storm and the rain is making the most delightful tinkly sound on the sea. It genuinely sounds like those rain sticks you used to get in Shared Earth.
In the yacht club earlier. Ave. age ~80. Couple on the next table taking an age to order. Eventually she asks for salad and he says "I'll try the liver". Do you mean the paté, Geoff? I'm sorry, we're out. "I'll have the trifle then." The... trifle? Both nod. As a main? Again, affirmative.
According to the NHS there isn't enough evidence that I have ADHD because my parents said I'm fine.
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