Sarah Todd Taylor
@sarahtoddtaylor.bsky.social
Author of the Alice Éclair and Max the Detective Cat series and Arthur and Me. Loves singing, cats and guinea pigs.
The story of the Penlee lifeboat. The RNLI are the best of us.
Mags L Halliday@magslhalliday.bsky.social · 3w agoEvery year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
A handy conversion chart: 1 Wales = 20,782 km2 1 Deciwales = 2,078.2 km2 1 Centiwales = 207.8 km2 1 Milliwales = 20.8 km2 1 Microwales = .021 km2 or 20,782 m2 1 Nanowales = 20.782 m2 1 Picowales = 0.21 m2 1 football pitch = roughly 344 nanowaleses
The Grumpy Cook website has a ‘Pay It Forward’ scheme where you can pay for a range of meals for people who may be struggling. These range from a small breakfast through to a family pack lunch and also including a child’s meal. The prices are suggested and start at £2.00. grumpycook.co.uk/shop/
Shop – The Grumpy Cook
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HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 2mo agoThis has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Come to iOSDevUK the UK's longest running iOS conference, taking place between 7th and 10th September. For info and tickets, see www.iosdevuk.com
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Come and find out about Swift concurrency with Anne Cahalan at iOSDevUK in September - Inside the Actor Studio. With over 10 years of experience making iOS apps, Anne will helping you make sense of Swift concurrency and Swift actors. www.iosdevuk.com
My brother blurting out 'That's so ******g CUTE' when the mice sang Blue Moon in Babe was.....an experience that left the rest of us sinking under our seats amidst the glares from angry parents.
Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.
Spot on from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social in ‘Who Cares About Wales?’ I’d say you can extend the argument UK-wide. So many people in Government, HE, and wider society have lost sight of what Universities are and should be in a political-economy.
Independent children’s and YA publisher @fireflypress.bsky.social has acquired children’s book Shelby and O’Hare: Pop Went the Weasel by Emer Stamp. 👇
Firefly Press to publish Emer Stamp’s ‘fun and addictive’ children’s book
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I won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.
Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
Alt: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
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Norman ships were projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover as the Bayeux Tapestry arrived at the British Museum last night. #MedievalSky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
But the creative industries are one of our most successful and among our biggest exports! This makes no sense.
Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · 3mo agoPerforming and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
Hamsters are often (wrongly in my view) touted as 'starter pets' for children, but it's grown ups who can best appreciate these fascinating and complex tiny creatures.
Neil Taylor (digidol)@digidol.bsky.social · 3mo agoPopcorn and his role as human whisperer. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
UK authors! If you haven't done it yet (I haven't) it's time to update your PLR account! The deadline is June 30th!
Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.
Unbelievable. I’m in central London, and I can’t find a mulled wine ANYWHERE. Tsk.
Do you read romance or “spicy” books? Could you spare a few minutes, please, to help our excellent student Zoe Coulahan with her dissertation survey? (Feel free to share, too — thanks!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.
Want to know what it's like to work in museums? Simply watch the Indiana Jones films, and then dismiss everything you've seen
