Happy birthday, Matthew R Redhead

The thing you love doesn't care

I remember telling my teacher how I always wanted to learn languages but I couldn’t see myself committing for that long. I got an email from him the next day that just said 'time marches on regardless'

In this picture all these men were younger than you are now.

In case you're wondering, the fleas came from Boris Johnson, not me.

Just FYI - if you’re feeling sad and you think ice cream would help, firstly you’re correct, and secondly I’m always available to be your ice cream buddy

the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

A few years ago, I had my grandma kiss a napkin wearing her signature lipstick - one kiss for each grandkid plus a bonus. I'm so glad I did this. Now that she's died, we can have grandma's kisses forever. Do what you can while there's still time.

it’s something i cherish deeply

Joy Sullivan, wrecked.

my writer mentor said that we should consider the possibility of writing for our most generous readers, our most attentive & thorough readers

& I’ve loved that advice

ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but 'my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but they died, and I don't want this stuff' has radicalized me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum

Ursula K. Le Guin:
'They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you’re pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say...'

Pre-War British Ghostbusters! Yes, please

'DAE AH HAE TAE SPELL IT OOT FUR YE, MARY, AYE?'

no love, however brief, is wasted

I choose to interpret this as a critique of capitalism and consumerism.

We see you Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop
We raise you Waterstones Bradford Wool Exchange 😉

i strive to be this fabulous

This is disastrous, hideous news. NHS England are hacking back the mental health support for hospital staff. One doctor takes their life every three weeks. One nurse takes their life every single week. These numbers will now INCREASE. Victoria Atkins - please do the right thing.