Andrea

Beautiful photos Nick

Christ on a bike, you're a twat. Goodbye.

So you have one specific case that you say happened. I can say that my experience was absolutely not like that and I worked for them for many years in lots of roles from sales assistant to manager of various sized shops in different bits of the country as well as office based roles at the Street HQ.

Where is your evidence of such appalling treatment?

(Former employee, shareholder and future pensioner here)

a man with curly hair is covering his face with his hands ALT: a man with curly hair is covering his face with his hands

There's nothing like the sound of power tools in the room above to calm the nerves. This is me right now 👇🏼

Pretty bad but not as bad as it could have been. A big area of the bedroom wall is being taken back to bare brickwork tomorrow as to help the drying out, hopefully that will be enough so that the lounge wall and ceiling underneath it won't need stripping too. Bathroom? Who knows at this point...

Sadly not, considered it but completely tied to getting this sodding leak damage sorted asap

How are you feeling today? Any luck with the doc?

No, you can’t defend the PIP cuts and there’s a chunk raggedly dragged from your soul every time you try

Bugger! Hopefully it settles back down

State of the Union David Ford · I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I've Caused · Song · 2005

Feels appropriate to post this.

#StateOfTheUnion

open.spotify.com/track/1s9m4p...

Desert Island Discs - Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition - BBC Sounds Sir Keir Starmer shares the soundtrack of his life. With Lauren Laverne.

I've just gone back and listened to this again. Anyone who *thinks* they know what Keir Starmer is like should really spend some time listening to the man himself because he really is quite extraordinary.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I fucking hated her voice in the 80s, awful nasal shite.

Tell me you know fuck all about him without telling me you know fuck all about him.

You're very welcome, I'd like to think my Mum would approve of more people reading JoJo's books.

The work that Simon @biggreenbooks.bsky.social puts into making #BuyAStrangerABook a success is phenomenal.

Don't worry.

I am still selling books published by Bloomsbury.

If you want one, just message me.

Or email me at biggreenbooks@gmail.com.

(eggs and baskets eh?)

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery...

(I've cheated and posted two because I couldn't decide which one to share)

A storm is a great time to steal a trampoline from a garden.
They'll assume it blew away.
But they won't look in case it killed someone.

Ha! It wasn't terrifying at all, just a nice flight with a very good pilot!

It's over Ölüdeniz, paragliding off Babadağ (Turkey)

I just realised that @biggreenbooks.bsky.social dropped out of the chain of posts (probably something I did, not quite got to grips with how stuff works over here yet).

I've sent the money by PayPal, so @realdaveedwards.bsky.social if you DM him your address he'll send you the book 🙂

Image is of a poemby Lucas Jones called I Don't Believe in Presidents Text is as follows: No, I don't believe in Presidents But I do believe in you And when power wants you silent We fight to speak the truth 'Cause anything they televise It just becomes your view Then wraps around your deepest fears And digs into the bruise Then funds their favourite party But makes you buy the balloons They package it as freedom And sell it back to you So no, I don't believe in Presidents But I love you if you do And as long we remember that The power lies with you

Sharing this poem from the magnificent @lucassjoness (he's on Insta, but hopefully he'll join here too soon enough) because it feels like entirely the right thing for this week.

"I Don't Believe In Presidents"

That's perfect. It's the one that Mum was part way through reading when she died and I reckon she'd have liked the idea of someone else discovering her favourite author.

Simon, I'll ping you the money over now.

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social Hi Simon, as it's #buyastrangerabook day, I'm putting this offer out again because no one took it last time.

So, if anyone would like a book by @jojomoyes.bsky.social in honour or my Mum, I'd love to buy them one.

Feel wrong to 'like' this, hope your Mum is on the mend soon. She's the priority now the books will wait.

Give it a go, not sure if they do a free trial but you can always cancel after the first month if it's not working out better for you.

Sometimes a programme will start with 'for contractual reasons this programme does contain commercials' but then either there aren't any or it's one very short trailer and it's never more than 30secs. It's normally for bought in shows like the Walter catalogue. No ads is bloody ace.

I haven't noticed any issues with it at all - I use it with both a firestick and directly on the app on a Samsung telly and watch something on there almost every day.

It's one of the few I pay for because I watch a lot of stuff on C4 and £4 a month to go and free was definitely justifiable for me. I bloody HATE adverts!

@eddytemplemorris.bsky.social 😁