Just had a pop up on a website that said:

DO YOU WANT TO GROW QUAIL FOR EGGS AND MEAT? SIGN UP HERE.

I didn't, I'm afraid.

Aspiration wikiart.org/en/agnes-marti…

Mine lurches wildly between

Champagne & smoked salmon pate

OR

Cheese and ham toastie, builders tea.

The true definition of bisexuality.

Spent the day with Edwin Morgan's scrapbooks at Glasgow Uni. They really are extraordinary. A hidden gem of British surrealism IMO. Julie Johnstone and I will be sharing a selection in the forthcoming edition of Morgan's visual, concrete & sound poetry. Edwin Morgan Trust ❣

For #ShakespeareDay , Edwin Morgan’s ‘Caliban Falls Asleep in the Isle Full of Noises’, published in Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1990)

St George and the dragon, from a book of magic spells and incantations written in Syriac (Northern Iraq?, 18th century?). Given to Cambridge UL Special Collections in 1891 by University Librarian Francis Jenkinson. MS Add. 3086. #StGeorge sDay #StGeorge

A reminder that we all have 'lived experience' on account of... being alive.

If you want to talk about a group with lived experience of something, *you have to name the thing*.

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‘You know how to ball / I know Aristotle’ is one of the funniest lyrics I have ever heard.

It is amazing how well an abuser can act when they believe that this time you might actually leave. I am so lucky I was able to leave during lockdown, when we'd been apart for weeks.

Born out of Zeus' skull

O no I really want these.

Handsome devil on a hot train.

Just seen a man in an unmarked van nick a communal bin-lid. Happy Monday, all.

Flowers and wreaths, given by townspeople and international delegations alike, festooning Shakespeare’s grave in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, after today’s Shakespeare Sermon. 💐

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me