JoelTaylorhack

Rarely heard sentences (this from my 12yo)

‘Can you prioritise kale over broccoli please?’

My 85 year-old mother regularly wanders around the West End post theatre.

I bought this poster almost exactly 30 years ago from a basement store in the Nowy Swiat in Warsaw

For 26 years it’s been in a tube & I’ve finally got it - and one other - up on the wall

Sadly sustained a bit of damage at uni but, as it is, it’s lovely to finally have it where it belongs

Test Match Special - The 2005 Ashes: Settling The Score - BBC Sounds The 2005 Ashes retold by Test Match Special and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Thought a lot about the 2005 Ashes series, obviously being the 20th anniversary, and really enjoyed this programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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2/2

What could go wrong?

It’ll be dark, no one will notice

I see Chris Philp has inexplicably kept his brief

Yes, should have been much firmer

I have seen someone in a balaclava on a train

Once & nothing happened

Let’s rule our lives by anecdote

And that patronising guff to the presenter about ‘it’s ok if you come in by Uber’

You used Gemini to draft that didn’t you?

What to do about Thames Water - Dieter Helm What has gone wrong with Thames Water and the UK water industry in general? Looking at the causes and some possible solutions.

Turns out someone far smarter than me (Dieter Helm) has thought far harder than me about this exact question of water nationalisation (specifically Thames) - anyone who's interested enough to read this far into the thread should now read this: dieterhelm.co.uk/publications...

I mean it’s such specious bollocks

I just abhor them so much

We were on holiday in half term, admittedly just before exams & my year 7 daughter said ‘right, I have to do five hours revision a day’

Nutter

Reform want riots

Reform wants people to be scared

Reform wants discord and division

It’s their their only route to power

Just finished Simon Bradley’s magisterial, elegiac, The Railways

A throughly delightful book

‘Made vivid again, here is something that transcends nature…’

Political opinions

A Turkish barber shave is one of my joys, even when they wave flames about

The corner of London where ‘street art’ is pushing up house prices Graffiti or art? The debate continues, but in Penge some people are willing to pay more for properties with murals

This is fun

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7bb7dee...

The corner of London where ‘street art’ is pushing up house prices Graffiti or art? The debate continues, but in Penge some people are willing to pay more for properties with murals

This is fun

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7bb7dee...

There’s a Douglas Adams line for every occasion

No they wouldn’t and I enjoyed the peace

Did the GWR Pullman last night which felt like a gentleman’s club; rarified & full of spoilt men

This was much more fun

Nope, freshly cooked

Can’t say this isn’t worth £11.50

Sitting in first class on a @transportforwales.bsky.social service waiting for a cooked breakfast

Really looking forward to it but no idea why they don’t say people can upgrade for this

Facing calls to substantiate claims that Afghan sex offenders have come to Britain following the data breach, a party source has said "John Healey and Mel Stride can stick that in their pipe and smoke it"

They're just idiotic children

In The Uncommercial Traveller, Dickens displays his suspicion towards railway food describing "brown hot war stiffened with flour" and recalls "shining brown pasties, composed of unknown animals within".
Hopefully, it will not be my experience this evening as I dine in the Pullman on GWR to Cardiff

The BBC interview with Trump is quite fascinating

‘I trust almost nobody… to be honest with you’ he says after a long pause

Trump sounded astonishingly needy and lonely

we've harvested and eaten our first crop

Also eaten our first tomatoes and plums aren't far off

Junior, sorry resident, doctors, are threatening to go on strike over their 29% pay claim

I don't think they have the slightest clue how unpopular they will be for taking such a position for a pay claim that obviously cannot be met

Immensely dim and shortsighted