Today's #happything is definitely the Bill Bailey gig that we managed not to miss by the skin of our teeth. I haven't laughed so much and so hard for ages ( Read more... )

And in honour of St Cecilia's Day, I defy any musician or music-lover who has 5 minutes to spare (and sound on their device) not to have a smile on their face, a lump in their throat or both after watching this...
[Cross-posted at both LJ and DW - feel free to comment at either...]

Somebody shared this pic on my Facebook wall yesterday, and as a long-time fan of Terry Pratchett (both as an author and as a wonderful, wise and humane human being) I wanted to pass it on as I thought it might raise a chuckle or two ( Read more... )

From a Catholic clerical friend-of-a-friend:

"His Holiness has really set the bar pretty high when it comes to deciding what to give up for Lent...."

:-)

[Cross-posted at both LJ and DW - feel free to comment at either...]

This has been doing the rounds all over my FB feed...

( Social media explained via doughnuts (om nom nom) )

... today's XKCD made me chortle:

MTV Generation

(not that I ever watched MTV in my life, more for the "What? It can't be that long ag.. oh, wait..." moment...)

[Cross-posted at both LJ and DW - feel free to comment at either...]

Yet again the wondrous xkcd nails my domestic life...

There's probably no-one on my flist who hasn't already seen this since you will all have been pointed firmly at it by altariel , communicator etc but I think it's so bloody brilliant that I don't care:

I'm Proud of the BBC by Mitch Benn (not going to embed since the embeds on other people's entries haven't worked for me, just linking to YouTube)

I never knew what Mitch ( Read more... )

TSE fans, go read this piece of delight by copperbadge now.  Yes, now. altariel , I'm looking at you.

(With thanks to mrazalais for the heads up...)

Needing a bit of light relief in the midst of a very heavy day of wading through job applications, I picked up the Times Ed's annual thread in their primary teachers' forums about Nativity Play Disasters. More gems here but here are a few I couldn't resist:

One year all was going well, which was good as it was all being filmed, but then one of our ( Read more... )