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Goodbye to her. From her Preface to ‘Crusoe’s Daughter’: “Suppose I had stayed there—like my mother. Let me suppose a sort of castaway girl who lived there all her life like Robinson Crusoe. I’d give her a library—her dead grandfather's vicarage books. I’d give her a wonderful lover.” 1/3

This looks like a really disappointing Raymond Briggs book

#maddow Science break. This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊

28th today So that's 20 League titles and 8 FA cups. Have a good one, Liverpool.

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Liverpool, Edward ChambrĂŠ Hardman

Billy Wilder hired the most beautiful starlets in Paris to play the sex workers in Irma La Douce. Every day the set was jammed with reporters and photographers, until one day Wilder turned on them and snarled, "Where were you bastards when I was making Stalag 17?"

The change of government from Tory to Labour in the UK was a huge opportunity to halt then reverse a decade of growing populism, scapegoating of immigrants, diminishing of rights, disdain for minorities, illiberal laws and disregard for the sick and disabled. Apparently they decided not to take it.

The final nail in the coffin that contains the rotting corpse of the Labour (sic) Party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Book 16: Jeff Young - Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay It was illuminating reading this brilliant and unique book in Tasmania, with its numerous Liverpool streets, crescents and roads (and Liverpool Kebabs) plus the “Mersey River” while pondering what the city means to different people… 1/?

Home & Bargain (Home Bargains to you) do TimTams.

Rigsby and Miss Jones (Penelope)

Honestly, UK, do it or fuck off. The world’s in flames, and you’re pissing about over the name of the most basic and uncontroversial form of cooperation imaginable. If you can’t even manage this, go away and come back when you’ve grown the fuck up. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Stopping the Ozempic