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Daily Mail readers voted for this and now they’re whining about the consequences

YouTube video by DiceSully Mornington Crescent (Original Modern Rules)

Loads of game footage to explore on YouTube

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Mornington Crescent books

George smirkey short story SMIRKEY'S GAME By John le Cabbé The house was set well back from the corner of Headstone Lane. A thin sleety rain drifted through the bitter night air, and the crumbling once-grand façade glistened in the jaundiced glow of a street-lamp. George Smirkey crunched his way up the short driveway then, throwing aside the empty crisp packet, he mounted the three worn stone steps and rapped on the doorbell. The door was cautiously opened almost at once by a man of middle age with receding grey hair, a nervous moustache, and a world-weary pair of spectacles on his face. 'Is this the "Safe" house?' asked Smirkey. 'It is,' replied Mr Safe. 'What can I do for you?' 'I am a Jehovah's Witness,' responded Smirkey, dutifully giving the password the 'Circus Operators' had provided him with before he set out from MI7 (SIC/WD40) HQ at Finchley Central. 'Then you'd better come in from the cold,' said Safe, sighing as he stepped back to allow his visitor to enter. Smirkey slipped past his host into the hallway. Struggling to his feet, he noticed the two men in dark suits and heavily framed spectacles who were sitting on the bench by the phone. One of them opened his briefcase smartly

Recipes from the little book of Mornington Crescent SHEPHERD'S BUSH PIE A traditional and economical regional dish for the ungrateful guest. Method Line a baking dish with pastry. Mince the eels and haddock together with the turnip, and form into 'torpedos'. Spit-roast over a barbecue [mark 7]. Prepare the custard separately, and serve tepid. ELEPHANT AND CASSEROLE A tasty and economical way to use up those menagerie leftovers. Ingredients elephant scraps juice of half a lemon nutmeg thyme 1 small turnip 37 other small turnips many onions Method Simmer ingredients together over a low heat for 2-3 days, stirring occasionally. Serve with celery sticks. COQ FOSTERS Follow any good recipe for 'Coq au vin', but in place of wine use lager. NOTTING HILL GATEAU A nourishing and economical addition to the tea-table. Method Beat the ingredients together in a bowl. Pour into a cake tin or bucket. Brûle with a Gary-Pro Blo-torch. Steam over a bain-marie, pricking every 35-40 buttered pickles. seconds. Turn out when cold. Slice and serve with Ingredients 8oz plain flour 8oz attractive flour 1 knob of sugar 1 tub of healthy-alternative butter substitute chocolate flavouring E194837542 3 eggs [Scotch] 6 anchovy tails BON APPETIT!

Selfie in front of Mornington Crescent underground sign

Enjoying my #MorningtonCrescent books… great #LeCarre short story in the Almanac! Don’t tell the Russian bot farm… it’ll blow their minds (also, couple of good recipes to please the #LenDeighton fans!)

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YouTube video by National Trust Cymru 'This is Ynys Môn' | 'Dyma Ynys Môn'

Superb! @nationaltrust.org.uk emailed me with a link to this great music video! Love it!
#YnysMôn 🫶🏻

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Smart watch with mayor from jaws on face

Managed to set my watch face to 4th July and everyone is having a wonderful time

🏊🏻 🦈 🏖️

Ben Elton did it superbly in ‘Time and Time Again’ - great twist!

Castell conwy from the train

On the train to #Llandudno - mainly to spend my @waterstones vouchers 📚 💰

Holding my ukulele wearing an Ozzy Osbourne T-shirt

🖤🖤🖤

Gary Numan a perfect circle album cover

Gary Numan triple album inside covers

Thomas Dolby album the gate to the mind’s eye in grey vinyl

Not sure what to play first next Sunday morning…
Sunday morning #Vinyl
#Music
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Album cover and clear vinyl

Tracklist

So it’s a bit of #BronskiBeat this coming Sunday morning 🎧 🎶

Tide bell on sandy beach

Man playing guitar standing under tide bell

Just saw this on Facebook -impressive ‘tide bell’ on #YnysMôn - someone posted a photo of a bloke using it to play his guitar. I now want to try my ukulele there 😂

Black Labrador and some wildflowers

Blackberries

Dog walk this morning… some lovely wild flowers up the lane, but is it a bit early for these blackberries ?? …there’s a few of them

Audio book cover with Ryan gosling in a spaceship

Started ‘reading’ (listening to) #ProjectHailMary so that when I see it in the #cinema I can whinge about how it’s not like the #book 😂

Selfie with Helen - I’m wearing a Kraftwerk Tour de France t shirt

Enjoying the #TourDeFrance so far this year! Will I have the stamina to watch every daily highlights show? 🚴‍♂️ 🚴🏾‍♀️ 🚴 🇫🇷

Book cover of saint overboard diving helmet

Frontispiece- Saint stick man outside a porthole

The villains in this book are entirely imaginary and have no relation to any living person FIRST PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 1936 SEVENTEENTH IMPRESSION I95 I THIS EDITION RESET I95г

Having finished Three Men In a Boat I think I’ll keep the nautical theme going. Found this in a charity shop in Bangor
#TheSaint 😇

“The villains in this book are entirely imaginary and have no relation to any living person” 😂… well, that was in 1936. Fast forward to 2025 and we’ll see about that)

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

I like the sound of it 👌

Bbc sessions clear vinyl

BBC sessions clear vinyl

Cars picture disc in shape of a car

Cars picture disc in shape of car with dashboard

On the subject of @garynumanofficial.bsky.social this nice clear #vinyl arrived just in time for Sunday morning …also, an old favourite out of the garage:

Not heard this in a while - probably give it a go now

Two books- clarkson’s farm and the tripods trilogy

Oooh, which #book shall I #read next? A dystopian nightmare about brainwashed souls trying to battle tyrannical overlords

…or shall I read #TheTripods ?

#Holiday #Reading #Books

Jools Holland and Chris Difford on stage (sneaky photo!)

Cool for cats pink vinyl

Back cover of cool for cats single with artwork of band members

Another great show by #joolsholland and his blues band! Lovely surprise to see special guest @chrisdiffordlyrics.bsky.social at #VenueCymru #Llandudno

(Now I know what to put on the Sunday morning #vinyl list) 🩷 🐱

It was more the EU I was thinking of

I was

TODAY 6/14/25, we peacefully make our voices heard... NO KINGS!* 🇺🇸

*Also NO: CONVICTED FELONS/PATHOLOGICAL LIARS/DRAFT DODGERS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS/SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIANS/MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS & ANYONE WHO INCITED AN INSURRECTION IN AN ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST HIS OWN COUNTRY a/k/a TRAITORS ✊

Genuinely heartbroken not to be part of this anymore - here’s to the youth vote in the future 🗳️🫶🏻

Book cover ‘cooking for mister James’ by May (the elderly Scottish housekeeper) - a stern looking thin older woman is holding an electric whisk across her chest in the style of a James Bond gun pose

Idea for a #JamesBond #book - Cookery book with all the meals and snacks in the Bond #novels (and #films I suppose, just for that quiche in #AViewToAKill )?

⚡️ wow⚡️ 😳

Bangor shopping precinct with a sign ‘only assistance dogs allowed in the mall’ (with photoshopped assistance dogs on their own

Saw this sign in #Bangor today and it made me think “how’s that going to affect the high street economy if only assistance dogs are allowed in? They don’t spend any money surely?” 🐾

#ArtificialStupidity alert:🚨
(In case you’re wondering I added the dogs using old fashioned photoshop)

a group of men in military uniforms are sitting next to each other and laughing . ALT: a group of men in military uniforms are sitting next to each other and laughing .

😂

Stop selling arms to Israel then.