Frances Robinson
@francespurple.bsky.social
My Substack about children's TV: https://squareeyes.substack.com/ Copywriting, journalism, moderating SE London Formerly Brussels/Frankfurt/Paris
That NYT TV list doesn't have Brooklyn 9-9 on it, so... 🤷🏻♀️
Absolutely incredible piece of USEFUL data Viz nerdery, all the prices of all the cabins in UK Center Parcs in one place (no, I'm still going to Belgium) parcsync.co.uk/prices
Find the cheap weeks: Center Parcs prices
Every UK Center Parcs lodge and arrival date on one map you can turn and zoom, refreshed daily by ParcSync.
parcsync.co.uk
I'd never heard of this before and now I'm desperate to try it! Love a chilled Loire valley red... Love a weird grape... Might have to pop to Aldi for some bits later 🤔
Katie Mather@katiematherkm.bsky.social · 2w agoMe for Wine52 on the popularity of a wine that has no business being popular. www.beer52.com/glug/article...
Savoury versions of desserts??? Take my money. Psyched to try this
Having an ultrasound, pregnant with twins. Guy in the corner points at a bright bit on the display and says "it's a bit abnormal over here" Me: WTF Guy: the colours are abnormal!!! This is a new screen. I'm in from the manufacturer calibrating it. Dr: oops yes we should have told you that, sorry
Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 2mo agoA question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"
Semantle #1631 ✅ 30 Guesses 🔝 Guess #24 🥈 986/1000 💡 0 Hints semantle.com
Semantle | Daily Word Guessing Game
Semantle is an engaging word-guessing game that challenges you to find the hidden word through semantic clues. Sharpen your linguistic skills!
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Got out my favourite childhood jigsaw to do with the twins and realised it's @jonnelledge.bsky.social catnip
Completely agree! It's not well and good! Drives me up the wall when they do it for Halloween and stuff too. It's signage, not a cutesy greetings card. They need to stop it.
Howlingatthe Moon@oog.bsky.social · 3mo agothis is all good and well but if you're not from here this can be wildly confusing????
Queens #794 | 1:04 with no hints First 👑s: 🟨 🟥 🟥 lnkd.in/queens.
Queens
Use your logic skills to place crowns in just the right regions, rows, and columns.
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Obviously very happy for everyone getting Bayeux tapestry tickets but... Why have so many people not seen it? It's in Normandy, not a remote desert island? Easy to combine with city break/seaside trip/landing beach history trip? Or have you all seen it before and just love appliqué history icons?
Lobster and a lovely flinty white?? First date GOLD
Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3mo agoI to Westminster Hall and fell to talk with Mrs. Lane, and after great talk that she never went abroad with any man as she used heretofore to do, I with one word got her to go with me and to meet me at the further Rhenish wine-house, where I did give her a Lobster.
You know we're all putting water out for thirsty hedgehogs... Be aware that perimenopausal women can sweat off their HRT patches in this hot weather! Check their patch is still attached. Get them a choc ice. Maybe move some extra fans into their living space 😉
A long time since we wrote this (and got invited to the PM's residence to watch the match frites and beer) but I still love Belgium so much... This is a tough watch 🙈 www.wsj.com/articles/fle...
Flemings Battle Walloons in Belgium, but They'll Always Have the World Cup
Even though growing numbers of Belgians are supporting separatist parties that want to split the country, both Flemish and French speakers are captivated by the Red Devils national soccer team.
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www.maptap.gg June 12 95👑 100🎯 100🎯 89👑 74🙂 Final score: 884 Quite proud of 100 twice 😂
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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I cannot stop watching this. How did they start? At what point did they decide climbing on the handlebars would be fun? How badly does it hurt to fall off in training?? I know what I want to see in the next Olympics... www.facebook.com/share/v/1BuQ...
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In the before times BuzzFeed would have a quiz up by now for 'which Peter Murrell embezzlement item are you' and this is what they took from us
If we're doing "collection discourse" I did manage to pay a chunk of my student loan by selling about half of my My Little Pony collection in 2010. BUT you have to know where the market is (fellow collectors, not random museums)...
YES absolutely!! This is a hill I will die on! Especially because going on holiday in the UK is often as expensive as going abroad. The Peak District, Kent Coast, Scarbados etc are all GLORIOUS holidays but they are not some cheapo alternative to the Med...
Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · 5mo agoImportant announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
First Substack in ages, featuring both the reasons for my absence and a slow-moving series about a cute Japanese cat open.substack.com/pub/squareey...
A Catch Up and a Cat
Once again, we return, with a collection of cute cats from around the world
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If we're doing "long distance train travel" discourse here's a thing I wrote many years ago about why flying is cheaper (but not actually better IMHO, train all the way, Man in Seat 61 4eva etc etc) www.politico.eu/article/ode-...
An ode to the night train
This wasn’t just nostalgia on rails, but a way a frictionless Europe was dreaming itself into being. Until Brussels killed it.
politico.eu