What a wonderful park for a parkrun! Prospect Park in Reading was delightful in the sun this morning. #running #parkrun #reading #berkshire
I was there in the autumn and had a lovely meal.
I am in Reading for this weekend’s Argyle match. I intend doing Prospect
Parkrun and went there this morning to check out the course. Muddy and slippy. It is a two lap parkrun but I only needed to do one lap to do my recce. Regretting not bringing trail shoes! #parkrun #reading #berkshire #running
That's one way for the White House to tell the troops it doesn’t really think of them as individual people.
The latest cover of The New World.
This is silly and false. The only operators of Tomahawk missiles are the U.S. Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy and Royal Navy. Iran has no Tomahawk missiles. If it did, it’d have no way to launch them.
Seen in Edinburgh a few years back.
When I go clothes shopping with Mrs M when she is buying for herself, we favour shops with some seats so I can sit down and read while she gets on with the necessary.
I took myself to Central Park in Plymouth for a slow and hilly 9k run. Guaranteed hilly in this park but at least none of them come as a surprise.
#running #plymouth #devon
A quick run with Tina. Only the two hills, but together they packed a punch with 185 m of elevation!!! The photo was taken before those hills wiped the smile from my face. Perfect timing though, as we finished just before the rain started. I really do love our Monday mornings together.
#running
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
🤣 Absolutely!
I had a steady run out in Plymouth this morning. Overcast but stayed largely dry.
#running #plymouth #devon
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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Many years ago, I met some Bletchley ATS women. They, and their Y Station colleagues, are nearly all gone now.I have read about WATU wrens. A fascinating subject.
But this is not football, it’s a stadium tour, drawing back the curtain, scraping away the layers of paint.
I am otherwise engaged on that day (stadium tour with a friend from Yorkshire) but would love to know if the wrens at Bletchley get a mention. Loads of sterling work done by them there.
P.S. This pongo has lived here long enough now to know where Guzz is! 🤪
The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression
✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social
Hegseth: "We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible."
- Middle East engulfed in regional war
- 11 countries attacked by Iran
- Oil & gas prices skyrocketing
- Strait of Hormuz now a conflict zone
- Terrorism threat raised across the world
- No sign of Iran regime collapse
The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
What a total tosser! This is what happens when you put news presenters from client TV stations in charge of your armed forces.
A slow leg turner with some 400m repeats thrown in.
Our latest Cornwall4EU street stall went really well. We were in Penzance and were really lucky with the weather.
We spoke to lots of people, and although a few still supported Brexit - and 3 were not concerned about world events 🤔 - a huge majority would vote to return to the EU in a referendum.
“Iran is a huge country with a huge population. If this goes wrong, we could see tens of millions of refugees on the move.”
- Rory Stewart
(The Rest is Politics)
Pep Guardiola didn't back down about the boos at Elland Road as play paused to allow Muslim players to break their fast for Ramadan.
“It’s a modern, modern world, right? You all [saw] what happened in the world again today, right? Respect the religions, respect the diversity, that is the point.”
Part of me wants both Iceland & Norway to join the European Union simply because:
-It would hopefully give Putin a massive fatal stroke
-A map of the EU showing the UK sitting as Billy no mates on its own surrounded entirely by EU member states would illustrate perfectly Brexit's backward stupidity
🤣
Central parkrun #210 - My 87th.
This administration period at Sheffield Wednesday has dragged on and on. Now the preferred bidder has dropped out. They deserve better than this.
A new politics of hope was born this morning. We do not need to be the cruel nation that Badenoch, Starmer and Farage want. @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party have shown us we have a choice.
Quelle surprise.
