Tim Smith

Thank you!

OK so this is going to be like the time someone showed me how to put away a pop up light box and I swear her wrists passed through each other at least once.
Intrigued to have a go now

Hi #medievalsky, I've got a couple of days in Paris booked soonish, any suggestions for the enthusiastic amateur medievalist?

In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidance, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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I'm not angry with the Bridgerton writers, I'm angry at myself for not seeing that twist coming

I meant to sit in the park and read but there's a couple of chaps doing long sword training and it's very distracting

I quite like bejewelled, not least as there are several different game styles depending on how frenetic you want it to be

Tonight's Jeera Rice proved the old adage that everything's better with butter (or ghee)

What with the Greens win, my news feed has had an uncommonly large number of good news stories.

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If there’s any justice in this world John Cleese will offer some praise. Either 5 minutes or the full half hour

Name badge with my name and title of "tipsy Cook"

About to play @bloodontheclocktower.com ,can I persuade fate to hand me Drunk Chef a third time....

My willingness to open the inspector tool has definitely made me the bane of several Web developers

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Excitement mounting for the @malcolmguite.bsky.social event later!

There's a poster at the station advertising the "Ultimate Viking experience" and I'm hoping that means some nautical exploring, a bit a trade and then a _really_ good ear clean.
(yes I'm regretting not buying the viking war scraper in the York antique shop last year)

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I'll take your word for it!

No idea on likelihood but please let it be secret cellar

Not an expected juxtaposition but that's why I gave up on Aliens vs Preditor 2. Realised I cared so little for the characters I couldn't even be bothered to see who survived (even what ordered they were eaten)

I do my best with waistcoats and bow ties

To avoid film spoilers, I've started reading Wuthering Heights.
I've got that worry of missing the point I always get when I read a classic on my own. About 13 chapters in and everyone seems, well, really unlikeable. It's not that I'm blind to how awful Hwathcliffe's childhood is but still...

The cover of The Monsters and the Critics by j r r Tolkien

TIL #Tolkien thought the #PearlPoet knew #GeoffreyChaucer. I don't know why but that blows mind!

I might be trying to buck my spirits after a hard week but the sky was definitely dark blue, not black, as I walked from the office to the station. And the birds were singing, which always helps

My brother refers to his local corner shop as the extended pantry

There is a certain pleasure in returning from a few pints at the pub and reading poetry. Anderson's Comedia tonight I think

5 classes I took in university
1. 14th century literature in English
2. The ideal society (philosophy)
3. On reading the bible (theology)
4. The décolonisation of Africa
5. Indian history, the Mughals to modern day

I was very lucky that I got quite a lot of freedom to be broad

Up to date on Bridgerton.
I wonder how many times the director called "good but this time _more_ awkward.
Also I'd love to see the writers whiteboard of the ideas for the what Benedict says

"I will not say do not cry, for not all tears are evil"
There is still a lot of social pressure against men crying but there is a place for authentic emotion to be expressed in our personal and corporate spiritual lives.
(I've also got Richard Rohr's The Tears of Things in mind)