Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳

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seeking a cure for the Daily Express • exploring the borderlands of history and myth • unusual objects • tennis

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· 12d

These are the people I'm interested in.

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· 15d

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did

An Edward Lear drawing of the jumblies who are little humanoids and the in about which is a sieve it looks a bit like a riddle with our large white flag and a big pot there's about I guess about eight jumblies some of whom are waving their arms

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· 21d

I'd be genuinely fascinated to know what sort of quantities of this item Next is expecting to shift.

This is an unpleasant ornament depicting a pumpkin sitting on a toilet reading a book called gardening tips and there are some toadstools and autumn leaves strewn around the base of the toilet

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jul 13

Why on earth are these sweets called Drumsticks? Even describing the resemblance as minimal would be an act of charity.

A packet of pink and white sweets called Swizzle squashies drumstick. The sweets themselves are essentially small flat pink and white rectangles and their resemblance to drumsticks doesn't really go much beyond them being solid rather than liquid or gas.

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jul 4

Bumhole Grape The look of it is slightly putting me off eating it.

A red grape that's two conjoined berries it resembles an arse complete with hole where the stalk was

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jun 19

FFS Plusnet! It appears that the only way to opt out of this customer satisfaction nagging is to have somehow had lightning reflexes and managed to text back STOP to the first SMS before the second one appeared about two seconds later.

$This is a screenshot of an SMS conversation between myself and Plusnet they contact me and try and paste to me and to taking part in some customer service fractions of a with the option to opt out by texting stop back but then they send me second SMS a couple of seconds after the first one and asking me to give values between zero and ten I text back stop but by this time it's too late apparently to actually stop this and it refuses to accept any response other than the number it really pissed me off this$

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jun 1

Race walking is brilliant. I love watching it, mainly because of the invigilators. I would love to have the opportunity to approach a walker and wave a 'bent knee' paddle at them.

The three paddles used by race walking inventilators to warn the athletes for taking both feet off the ground at the same time or bending their knee or just going totally rogue. two of them are yellow and the last one is red

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Apr 18

They were also issued as an omnibus edition. I've still got my copy, probably the most read and reread book I've ever owned

Are copy of the usborne guide to the supernatural world, the cover depicts are fanged skull with demonic eyes

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Apr 7

I was just reading Petroc Trelawney's description of that piece last night.

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Apr 1

Well you definitely wouldn't want to ruin the ambiance of a closed down shop's car park, would you?

Screenshot of a headline from the East Lothian courier which has a picture of a white van in on otherwise pretty much empty car park and they're headline beneath it is snack van in closed down shops car park would not be a good look

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Apr 1

I don't think anybody can ever have gone bankrupt by underestimating the taste of garden statuary customers.

5 really disgusting hideous awful garden months which are meant to be worms except they've got faces with googly big eyes and buck teeth and so forth and the larger ones are wearing hats and they are simply revolting

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Mar 29

Now this is a bad habit which I finally cured myself of in my 40s. I find these rubbery bendy sticks quite useful as an alternative.

A hand holding four rubbery plastic bendy sticks with each with different textures

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Feb 24

If you think that sounds bad look at what the Germans were being offered as an alternative to coffee during World War I.

At the start of the wall coffee which in any case was usually chicory mixed with sugar beet became roasted nuts flavoured with coal tar later this became too expensive and was replaced by roasted beach nuts and acorns but latest still during the turnip winter of 1916 to 17 every spur acorn was used to feed pigs and coffee was made from carrots and turnips

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jan 19

microsegment

A fingertip pointing at an absolutely miniature Clementine segment on a slate tile background, at its widest the segment is probably about four or five maximum millimeters across I can't be more exact because I've eaten it now and I didn't measure it

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jan 16

Last year I found this unbanana. There was nothing whatsoever inside the skin.

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jan 13

This is some of Rightmove's finest prose. I've been creasing myself laughing at it for the last ten minutes.

text reads as you step through the doorway you're greet is by an entrance hall steeped in the Whispers of centuries past adorned with a feature wood ceiling and original tiles that echo with the footsteps of those who came before here are downstairs retreat await complete with a modern convenience a toilet and a functional utility room with seamless access to the rear courtyard venture further into the heart of this abode and you'll find yourself enveloped in the vast expanse of the inner hallway a space brimming with possibilities whether it becomes a cozy family room a bustling office or a malaysia's haven from music enthusiast the choices used to make beyond lies the culinary realm a space as kitchen a scent of staircase each step a journey through time leading you to a realm of tranquility and repose here to generous double bedroom stand sentinel accompanied by a versatile single bedroom or office space ready to adapt to your every whim a family bathroom offers solace

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Nov 26

Interesting new Gashapon set here. The horrified owl is a nice touch.

This is a set of gashapon figurines featuring a skunk emitting a cloud of toxic gas from its arse end. The main image features the skunk producing a closed your same thing for head and front legs of our male lions within the background a cartoon owl and two squirrels looking on in horror smaller images to a similar scenario but featuring the skunk producing closures and playing a buffalo a shark and a snake of some swords and those another one that's too small for me to really grasp what it depicts at all but they're just absolutely extraordinary fruits of a very unusual mind

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Nov 15

Hobyahs and dismembered dogs are the true the stuff of nightmares. Even now I feel somewhat unsettled thinking about them.

A group of revolting little pink humanoids like evil jelly babies carrying a sack on the shoulders in the Twilight this is an illustration from a children's picture book

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Nov 9

You've got the gist of it, yes.

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Sep 4

Yes, it's hard to understand what's going on in retailers minds. The length of these trousers (Zara) is so extreme that they're clearly unwearably long even on models wearing heels. I doubt that more than 1% of women could wear these unaltered.

Two models wearing brightly colored suits which are ridiculously long to the point of unwearability

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Sep 1

I recently came across the Howards' Way series of knitting patterns. I wonder how many people are still wearing these garments?

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Aug 29

This is what I'd pay to see, presuming it's physically possible...

A man balanced upside down on his head on the back of a horse firing a gun towards the horses rear this is some sort of etching or woodcut

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Aug 14

Totally agree, I've lost count of the number of times I've been cheered up by looking at the expression on this giraffe's face. That book is one the best things I've ever bought from a charity shop.

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Aug 13

There's some nice details on the increasingly ersatz concoctions that passed for coffee in Bee Wilson's 'Swindled'.

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Aug 4

FFS, this is the fourth jury citation I've received in the last six years. Apparently there's no upper limit to how frequently you can be obliged to cancel your plans and remain on call for a week phoning them up every evening to find out if you have to go in the next day.

The top part of a jury citation letter from the Scottish courts and tribunals service dated 30th of July 2025

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jul 31

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jul 27

I had to have my age verified to buy these nail clippers in Lidl this morning. I'm armed and dangerous now.

A boxed set of two nail clippers. The box is mainly black and the background is wood

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jul 25

Screenshot of a headline reading minister no one died in fires except for those who did. beneath this is a photograph of a middle aged male Cypriot politician captioned justice minister marios hartsiotis

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jul 15

You sometimes hear about street names affecting the value of properties. I genuinely would rather live on Cowpat Lane - or whatever - than Investment Drive.

A rightmove advertisement for a modern boxy looking house in Glasgow whose address is listed as Investment Drive

Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳@scosthrop· Jul 4

Yes, this one covers some similar territory, so to speak, light read but interesting nevertheless.