For heavens sake just raise the income tax with a bit more on the high earners. It must be the cheapest method to raise tax.

Ha ha ‘I deeply deplore thee!’

Day 134 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Baby flamingo learning to stand on one leg

I remember this picture so clearly from my childhood

My problem is that a lot of the staples of plant based food have to be imported. Soy, Tofu, almonds, rice, etc

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security

A clear message for Rachel Reeves: If you're looking for growth, go green

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m making my own list of text abbreviations (or initialisms) for more middle-aged, British people, like me. This is what I have so far. Hopefully they’ll catch on. Let me know what you’d add.

If my dad had accidentally left a fly button or zip open, my Mum always said ‘Star in the East Albert’! I don’t know where that came from.

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Spot the 12 deliberate mistakes.

From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon

In 1974 there was a mortgage famine, we had to phone up Abbey National to see if we could even get an appointment, it never happened. The Gov stepped in to help free up the funds

Yes the way they treat their pigs, never buy Danish Bacon

Mum enjoyed getting the card from June every year but didn’t have an address to reply. I hope you all are keeping well.

@sophiealdred.bsky.social Hi Sophie I am Vincent’s cousin Anne, we have been trying to contact June but have no address for her. Every year she sends a Xmas card to my Mum (their Auntie Kitty). My Mum died in 2022 but we haven’t been able to let her know. We hope you can pass this message on thanks

This made me laugh

Foreign aid is one of the things that can help economic refugees having to leave their country

We used to go to see them every time they played the Floral Hall Southport. I had that album and the follow up. It was the most exciting live act

Oh no! The conundrum is missing a letter! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

At least you all know it’s properly DIY! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Apologies!

It would help if everyone paid the same standing charge we pay one of the highest in the old Manweb area

She’d Dance   She’d dance like no one was watching although she liked to think he was. The kitchen was her grand ballroom; her partner was a mop.   She’d foxtrot among the pots and pans, she’d paso doble to the sink, and as she swept across the floor, her mind danced, too. She’d think   of how he’d held her in his arms at the Locarno and the Ritz - whirling, waltzing, a world apart - in the years before the kids,   and longer still before the shadow the doctor spotted on his lungs. How dazzlingly they had danced! How dizzyingly she had spun!   Her neighbours saw her sometimes, shuffling bent-backed to the shops. But at home, she’d dance like no one was watching although she liked to think he was. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘She’d Dance’.

I am here and so is Jude

Without a charging infrastructure people like me who would like to swap to an EV can’t. I live in a terraced house in an area with mostly terraces.

Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond; by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Monetisation’.