This week’s Five Things…

1. Embrace the boredom — Boredom is a pit stop

2. This is both clever and hilarious — TikTok video

3. The Farley household has a new favourite board game! — Carcassonne

4. An entertaining Twitter thread of the Queen with various photoshopped outfits — Green screen Queen

5. Quote of the week: “The only thing lonelier than a man with an aloof cat as a best friend is a man with an imaginary aloof cat as a best friend” — from this New Yorker piece on Garfield Minus Garfield

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Quote of the week: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” - André Gide, via Austin Kleon

2. I bet whoever received the pitch for this documentary at Netflix couldn’t believe their luck. It's a crazy story — The Tiger King

3. Every weekday at 9am. Fun and fitness for the whole family — PE with Joe

4. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, goats have taken over a town in Wales — Goats of Llandudno

5. Useful advice for these strange times — 'Focus on the things you can control': how to cope with radical uncertainty

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. This advert was doing the rounds on social media last week. Very clever — Epuron ad

2. I'm sure you probably agree that things are a bit weird right now. A side effect of that weirdness, some rather impressive yet eerie photos of usually busy places that are now almost or completely empty places — When Everyone Stays Home: Empty Public Spaces During Coronavirus

3. I loved this episode of Tyler Cowen's podcast with John McWhorter — John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race

4. If you're on Twitter, the actor Samuel West is well worth following. I'm enjoying his poetry reads: "As an actor, I can’t do much without face to face contact. But I can read verse. If me reading a particular poem would make you happy, let me know and I’ll post it on SoundCloud" — Samuel West reading poems

5. An amazing mashup of Max Richter's On The Nature Of Daylight and Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth — This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. My new favourite episode of Reply All. It won't disappoint — The Case of the Missing Hit

2. And I thought moving a piano in Ipswich was hard enough — The Miracle of Moving a Piano in New York City

3. I don't think we need to be worry about the machines taking over just yet — This neural net knows what smells good

4. That's one catchy song... The lyrics could do with a bit of work though! — "Jealous Coronavirus" music video from Vietnamese Health Department

5. Just in case you needed to know — How to sound like a dog in 14 languages

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Yesterday I finished reading A History of Loneliness by John Boyne. A sad and thoughtful book that follows the life of a priest from his childhood in 1960s Ireland to the present day. It’s very good — A History of Loneliness

2. A clever attempt at stopping many of the daft lawsuits aimed at songwriters. Who knows whether it’ll hold up in court! — Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain

3. This a lovely story. The internet can be a wonderful place at times — Callum Manning: Online surge of support for bullied book lover

4. What colour are the balls? — Ball colour Illusion

5. I discover so much great music by watching NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts. Here’s my latest discovery: Jordan Rakei on Tiny Desk

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