This week’s Five Things…

1. I’m sure you’ve seen this already by now but just in case you haven’t, enjoy! — Drumming weatherman

2. This could have ended very badly, fortunately it didn’t and now it's a crazy story we can all smile about — Man accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet during surprise flight

3. I love a good illusion. This is quite a trippy one! –– The coffer illusion

4. A very interesting read. I recently finished the author Rutger Bregman‘s book which is also full of interesting ideas — Poverty isn’t a lack of character. It’s a lack of cash

5. Up your cartoon game with these tips from Nathan W Pyle, the creator of the amazing Strange Planet comics — thread of basic art tips

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This week’s Five Things…

1. Watch until the end — I want to break free

2. This is my 2020 — Relative importance in 2020, so far

3. Reading a book about a pandemic during a pandemic was an excellent idea. My favourite book of 2020 so far — Station Eleven

4. This is excellent — The sport we need

5. Today I learned… "Paradoxically, the more you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets" — Does a USB drive get heavier as you store more files on it?

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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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