My darling chum who’s right about ‘almost’ everything (Looking at you Linda Sayle ) claims Montenegrins are the tallest people in Europe. I say piffle madam. Surely it’s the Dutch. Huge.

Scotland showing off again this morning 💖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I have a David Attenborough door stop. It delivers continual aesthetic pleasure.

What a thoroughly smashing little horror movie #LateNightwiththeDevil is. Big recommend.👍

In times of stress and anxiety it’s always time to call on the exquisite art of Edmond Dulac.

Good luck to everyone running the #LondonMarathon today!

According to Herodotus, the original ‘marathon runner’ was a messenger called Pheidippides, who ran from Athens to Sparta to seek help against the Persian forces, covering 260km in two days 🏃‍♂‍
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Spring comes to Glasgow today. At last!!!

When it comes to cut flowers, daffies from the garden really boss it. 💖

I would like to point out, for those who haven’t visited, that hotels in the outer Hebrides are uniformly excellent. In particular the Harris Hotel which is pretty much fully booked all year on account of being absolutely smashing in every way.

Bit of skunk cabbage newly bloomed for you. Crazy name, crazy plant.

Today, 18th April, is the 90th anniversary of Kate Cranston's death. A pioneering Glasgow businesswoman, she was a well-known patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Glasgow Style artists.
Here at GSA Archives, we hold Miss Cranston's walking suit (NMC/0436)
#KateCranston90

I am giving a talk on 3 May in Cambridge (open to all, free but please register: tinyurl.com/3bnyczrt). It includes one of my favourite cartoon ('Boy who breathed on the Glass in the BM'), but takes a different direction from other talks... to justifying humanities etc.

Sweet and charming comedy, dealing with much under represented autism, is on BBC IPlayer now. Please give #Dinosaur a look. 🦖👍

Barn owls are a beautiful and highly protected species. So if this one saw me putting my hands on my hips, sighing, rolling my eyes and tutting before fetching the shovel I may have broken the law. Think I got away with it.

Oh yes. I get to go to fabulous places. 💖

This was THE most incredible performance. Mark Gatiss 💙 is a thing of wonder in all he does.

Londoners! Only just discovered, 2 years late, about your cunning two different Bond Street Elizabeth Line entrances! This changes EVERYTHING. What else are you concealing from out of towners? A secret highway through the trees to Tottenham? A magic carpet to Reading? Pffft.

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NEW | The BBC Comedy Festival 2024 will be in Glasgow on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd May. Speakers will include Armando Iannucci, Jennifer Saunders and Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith. Free tickets available now.

comedy.co.uk/pro/news/7835/…

Nearly 1am #PondWatch reward. This big beauty just hanging about, enjoying the froginess of being a frog. 💖🐸