Jonathan Chamberlain

“Where one third would kill another third while the remaining third watches“

In honour of your new country of residence, would she accept tea?

Thank to Past Me for clearly understanding the bass part here.

I have somehow set up the BBC Sport app to notify me only of the fortunes of the Afghanistan cricket team. I am thus informed by way of bright ping when every wicket falls. I have no idea how or why I did this, nor any clue as to how to change it.

Happy Birthday indeed!

In this photo I am smiling with the surprise and delight I actually felt at meeting IRL one of my favourite writers. She is smiling too, which is nice.

It’s ‘social’ media, people! A completely unexpected and rather wonderful joy to recognise @janecasey.bsky.social at Marylebone and in the 5 mins before my train fan-boy her on just how gripping her writing is. @teaforpterosaur.bsky.social , we missed you.

And, the data signal is much stronger on the Chiltern line. You can actually get some work done.

I am in the dungeon in Windsor Castle. This is why and why I wouldn’t be anywhere else. The works choir is singing evensong in St George’s Chapel shortly. Please tell us to break her leg.

Paywall (sobs)

Back at Shell-Mex house literally 40 years since I was last in it. I was an intern (not that we used that word) at Shell between school and university. She has long departed the building, but I’m here to lunch with a friend whose company now occupies part of it.

This is the current display in our canteen in the office.

In other news, I am fat.

Or teenager refuses to do it, gets horribly sun-burned and rest of holiday much impaired by crying, wincing and endless searches in local pharmacies for effective ointments aka Summer 2015. Parental schadenfreude tempered, tho because I am a terrible person not eliminated, by very real filial pain.

Albert is a black lab at a choir rehearsal. He has no interest in the Gibbons and wants a treat. Which he is not getting. Here is his backstory https://www.dogsforgood.org/makelifepossible/stories/jemima-albert/

Albert would like you know he is slightly surprised by, and very disappointed in, you

Photograph of the page from the book which describes how during the siege the police had to move their operational headquarters from the Royal College of Needle Work, where they couldn’t smoke, to a Montessori school where they could provided they promised to look after the school’s pet gerbil and not disturb a duck nesting on the top floor.

In a cafe, reading Ben McIntyre’s account of the Iranian Embassy siege; shoulders shaking with silent laughter at this passage. Never mind the SAS, this is the Pride of Britain

Just like the old days! A delight to meet @brummybar.bsky.social IRL on the Chiltern. She is coming up to Town to do God’s work in the Court of Appeal: I’m going to push some pixels around and eat lunch.

The display looks just a bit different. I also suspect the security has improved. Anyway, thanks again. I’m so looking forward to my visit.

Oh thank you so much for this! I learned about the models from a throwaway line in A level. First stop on the pre-uni Inter-rail: Les Invalides, in the attic, which is where they were then. Half were off limits but I sneaked past the guard to see loads more. Can’t wait to see them again.

My friend, believe me: if I could bottle and sell it to you, I would.

Looking forward to the follow-up Salt Path film where the couple (played by Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs) are hunted by a furious Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs (Emily Blunt and The Rock).

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

I recall the Soho Society thought otherwise and snuffed out her small joy by lobbying the Council to force her to take it down. We’re several decades on but tonight I smile and think of her.

My late friend, a TV producer, had a small flat in Berwick St in the 90s. It had a tiny roof terrace on which she placed an iron girder construction with which to hang plants. It was entirely at one with the grim aesthetic of that aspect of Soho.

So much this.

……with glass of champagne in hand?

Congratulations. A sunny summer day today?

I particularly like the view of my office.

Total mic drop on the last line, but… why did both Hannan and Johnson reach for the ball gag metaphor here? Did one of them nick it off the other? Was it some kind of hilarious banter they came up with together the night before? Or are they both just VERY WEIRD? (Alt text in following post)

Tom McKinney has just done a link on 3 Breakfast “From Eric Whitacre to Eric Morecombe..” and I’m not sure my day can get any better.

I’ve got a joke about Hercules and with a bit of effort I might just tell it.

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