I was reading le monde in a chic Parisian restaurant with candles on the table and set fire to it and briefly dented the Waiters insouciance as they ran to extinguish the flames.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

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NB Walmington, not Warmington, although your mistake seems prompted by the rosy glow which 'Dad's Army' generates so its understandable. But not allowable.

I get the impression you're looking for a plinth. Can i suggest you dont settle for anything less than a 19th Century Burmantoft of Leeds Faience Stand and Jardiniere. You wont be disappointed. Poor, but not disappointed.

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I wondered what would happen if i put the hose of the hoover into a mop bucket full of soapy water.

Nothing good is the answer.

One for the kids....

Counterpoint: Bad Coffee - viscous, bitter and kicks like a mule - is actually Good Coffee. And sold only in Greggs, Dunkin' Donuts, Tim Hortons and Diners where its been stewing for 9 hours.

Still a surprise to me that Left wing people think you can use Facts to change peoples minds when Right wing people have long since discovered that Lies are much quicker and dont bog you down when you need to say the opposite thing to the thing you just said.

At what point does common usage mean that the verb 'to assist' is finally defined as 'to hinder and confuse'.

All my comics have happy endings!

the very bad 'Among the Thugs' by Bill Bryson.

Yer ma collects Labubus

A box of jazz mags in front of a skip 1/24th scale.

It’s all about the research. The skip is from 1991, (don’t ask), so the mags had to be 70s vintage to have been in a shed for long enough… anyway, it’s how my mind works. Linen tester for scale and cheap laughs.

Grot mags in skip

Grot mags in box. For US/RoW viewers, RAZZLE has a sort of comedy element about the title in the UK, oft quoted.

Wanna see a really tiny damp cardboard box of grot mags? Course you do.

Picking up my own (or my dogs) mess is, somehow, the path to Serfdom, would appear to be the message we have absorbed.

For most of the last 50 years, our State has been in the hands of people who believe the State per se to be inefficient, incompetent and evil. Is it any wonder that we are now living in that outcome?

Try and / Try to

Poignant/ Pertinent

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

i prefer Clive James' updated definition of a Cockney as 'someone born within the sound of Thames Television.'

Would not work for Scousers and Granada TV

Sol Kerzner, the owner of Sun City, later organised Mandela's Inaugaration Party - which teaches us that healing is possible and also that Club Promoters know how to turn a dollar both sides of the fence.

China.....doesnt say anything becuase they are too busy doing.

Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.

Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.

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Call Me!

seven inch wonders

the glory days of 'Buy one get one free'

See also Bill Nelson's 'Quit Dreaming....'

goodnight everyone

Blue Remembered Hills came six years after Terry Scott's Curly Wurly ads. Just saying.

im in the UK and "Due to changes in US customs regulations, all Royal Mail services to the US on eBay Labels will be temporarily disabled."

YouTube video by Kino Lorber Every Little Thing – Official Trailer

Resist the urge to watch some prurient true crime documentary and watch this one about hummingbirds and the point and purpose of everything instead.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYgV...