🌈Mike O'B 🇬🇧

When I was 10, one of my teachers was a devout Catholic and laughed at ancients worshipping the sun. Made perfect sense to me, though. Then my Nana O'B, had a chat about old ways and things. Lots of chats.

Next week I'll be teaching my (adult) son to shoot with a recurve bow. In the UK, hunting with bows is illegal, but bows are not (yet) proscribed as offensive weapons. It's also not illegal to own broadheads, just to use them. Gotta get the boy ready for any Zombie apocalypse!

Allowing British bases to be used in an illegal war of aggression is a catastrophic and historic mistake.

Britain has been dragged into another war because our Prime Minister would rather appease Donald Trump than stand up for international law.

It is said, that the English, being secular/agnostic, invented Cricket as a way of conceptualising eternity 😁

The US constitution sets it as a secular country. Yet xtian fundamentals say the opposite. The UK is technically a CofE country but we generally cba. We worship Ikea on Sunday.

I seem to recall that the uk was asked to indulge in Korea. Harold Wilson said no. Generally seen as a good call.

ICE could really help out on the Frontline of this foreign war, couldn't they?

They're just not very good, are they? Thankfully there's lots of them . Hardly an endangered species.

The documentary I've just watched was fascinating. Lowry's voice, Ian Mackellen lip synching.

I think Sunderland museum+gallery has the largest Lowry collection outside of Manchester?

I stand corrected, of course it was 😃 Memory slipping

LS Lowry on BBC 2. Very much a son of Manchester, but we in Sunderland like to claim a bit of him. Spent a lot of time later in life at the Roker Hotel.

Having a txt discussion with various direct family about fuel shortages, compost and food supplements to avoid finding out who my step-daughter has or hasn't invited to her 40th. I'm invited 😜

But I've steamed the new curtains, so haven't wasted my night off totally.

Patiently waiting for Wee Free Men and Wintersmith so I can re-read the Tiffany Aching's in order. Frustratingly, Wintersmith is due before Wee Free's

Israel jubilant as Iranian school girl death toll surpasses expectations with over 148 "liberated" There were wild celebrations in bunkers across Tel Aviv—and even a Florida congressional office—as exciting news updates rolled in.

Israel’s latest success came after a precision-guided missile struck a high-value military target: the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab.

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-jub...

Israel has every right to defend itself against Iranian school girls

Imagine telling the world that you're liberating the women of Iran and one of the first things you do is blow up a school full of girls. Extraordinary.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,

I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all.

Thanks,
Zack Polanski

Thanks. Although I use Waterfox for general browsing, Brave is exclusively for my on-line banking, nothing else.

Starmer's "If you don't like it, you can leave" will go down as one of the greatest political speeches in the Green Party's history

Such a different world. 1978, 14yr old. Walking down the street, air-rifle on my back. Local-local cop stops me "Mick, man! at least put a bloody cover on it!" And that was it. I made a bag from old jeans. Good enough.

Take a photo with your phone, then pinch-zoom 😜

No idea what possessed him to do this, but glad he did! Just a giggle, nonsense, and so many gnome puns 😀

Admittedly, the Sennheiser's, I can wear without removing my BTE hearing aid and no feedback, so not a totally bad purchase.

Anyone any thoughts on Brave?

Any news on the by-election yet?

Lashed out (for me) £60 on new Sennheiser headphones, after getting sick of jiggling the wire on my old ones. It seems the socket on my PC case is faulty. So nothing wrong with my decent AKG's, although I miss my original wired Beats Studio. Best I ever had but have you seen the price of them now??

Octopuses can change colour in a fraction of a second, sometimes in under 100 milliseconds. The Labour Party can beat that.

Super stressful month getting the new place sorted into a home. Raised some interesting declutter questions. Why do I still have 3 paddle-boards? And 5 wetsuits, only two of which still fit me and one of those gives me 20mins in the winter North Sea, which was never going to happen anyway 😀