These are all so wonderful. You need to be following Lissa!
Why did he wake up at 5:25. Why
Shout-out to my mum trying to explain her saying, "Who do you think you are, Henry Kissinger?" (a line from Fawlty Towers that caught on at home) to my older child when he was about six, and him listening politely while she tried to give him a crash course in what a secretary of state is
Met someone on Monday who, at one point, was extolling the life in Dubai, who said, "It's completely egalitarian, if you work hard you earn good money!", and when I said "What about construction workers?" they went, "That's different, you can't compare the two"
Not to be insensitive to deeply cherished customs, but if it were up to me? I'd get rid of the call to prayer here, the dawn one. Just wouldn't have it. A lovely sleep for everyone, that's the way I'd do it
A French man by the pool is reading a book called "Le Gaslighting"
Just started a conversation with two strangers with the words, "Sorry to butt in, but Owen Gleiberman is full of shit."
Idea: a gift guide where everything is less than £25, for people who know more than six people
The handsome men of Morocco are more handsome than the handsome men of anywhere else
Big day for me today guys! (I'm getting the Piccadilly line, changing onto the Victoria line at Finsbury Park, then getting back on the Piccadilly at Green Park)