Thinking of rainbows. #caturday

From Liz Truss’s memoirs.

“A last-minute phone call came in from my daughter, Liberty, calling on me not to resign from the middle of her school playing field.”

A grape rolled under the wine fridge. When I hoiked it out, I also found an old cat-toy mouse we got with a bottle of Felicette wine. Sputnik was so grateful to have it back he kept bringing it to bed to thank me.

You do wonder if he’s ever had anything against a woman.

Artistic idioms often originate in imitation and ritualised sacrifice.

I do like a well-designed book cover…

Requested a review copy of a book on a popular subject by a very well-respected academic, published by a very long-established British university press.

Was told that “this is an academic title and does not have a publicity campaign.”

So, you’re not expecting to sell many?

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

Bond answers his mobile: 'Ah, M. I was just heading off into the bush.' bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Yeah, you’re going to have to narrow it down a bit.

I could see immediately that the Middleton photo had been manipulated.

Her arms are way too short and the colour of the sleeve doesn’t match the rest of her coat.

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RIP David Bordwell. One of the great film scholars, with an amazing range of work - just scan the tags on his and Kristin Thompson’s invaluable website to see the topics they covered. davidbordwell.net/blog/

Fortunately, nobody has ever been able to hear it properly.

British humour trending

Santa’s Grotto stories arrive ten months early.

Or three months late.

Films have been rubbish since 1927.

Brilliant decision.

Now, all I have to do is get myself imprisoned and I’ll have access to loads of academic articles.

Obviously I didn’t plan everything I wanted to say about planning, but the fact that I didn’t plan it doesn’t mean I didn’t have a plan.