Andrew Stuart

If #theapprentice was just the “buy 9 items” and “tv shopping” tasks each week, I’d be delighted.

Potentially the “make a TV advert” ones too

(2/n) … and the recruitees win, they get £250k investment + cash prize equivalent to the profits of all the tasks their team won.

Round table in the bridge cafe to decide who goes to face Lord Sugar/Tim/Karren

Or something like that? I dunno, could be better?

Hear me out…

Apprentice x Traitors crossover

Each team has plants trying to disrupt the tasks, who were never going to be normal contestants.

If the plants win the final, it’s £250k cash prize.

They need to recruit genuine contestants to become traitors. If they recruit someone… (1/n)

Extended.

Turns out it’s still Christmas at the Greggs near our office

Remember AG34 very well

They’ll be eating paella and having siestas in Burton before we know it

Fuming. Ordered a Feathers McGraw off Amazon, and they’ve sent me a chicken.

And Vue printworks. Went to see Oppenheimer there and it was 100% worth it.

The man in the automated message on the Manchester Civil Justice Centre phone number genuinely sounds unhinged. It only gets worse the longer you listen. Just wait for the bit about bailiffs. Who approved this???

Out of stock because they had an epiphany and destroyed all the remaining bottles

And you get a free cloak 😆

More than 30 people stranded in UK's highest pub after getting snowed in There is enough beer to last for two weeks

There is enough beer to last for two weeks

This is the River Mersey in Didsbury this morning. 2.09m and falling now after last night’s rain. @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Santa has put a shift in, that’s for sure.

Santa has put a shift in, that’s for sure.

Help us track Santa at the @manchestereveningnews.co.uk tonight - and make sure you get to bed before he flies over www.youtube.com/live/0DO-uy1...

This is real if you know you know :)

The toys have joined forces and let me tell you, it is terrifying

The @mancitycouncil.bsky.social BINFO has a Santa hat #binnews

Instagram is now a game, and not a photo sharing app.

(Tbf it’s not been a photo sharing app for a while either)

Seems a bit unfair for just one person to win #strictly

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.

I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

Jellycat General Store has opened in The Trafford Centre

Found this while doomscrolling

When gym types complain that their gyms are ruined in January, I remind them that *they* ruined the pubs in December…

pitch: in December every pub should keep at least a couple of tables free for people who can prove that they do actually spend money in pubs the rest of the year

I’m doing Welsh and French. More French recently, but I mix between the two. And I also did the maths one for a bit too, just to see what I knew (still) 😅

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Was that… was that annoying owl talking *just* about Duolingo