Jon Smalldon

Beryl the dog lounging with “arm” over the side

Just not convinced this can be that comfortable

two things are simultaneously true:
The U.K., and London particularly, have incredibly diverse and good and complex food scenes with an amazing variety of offerings

And

not Mexican food tho

My Dunkerque boys have a must win game against Chartres.
This is not fun.
#handball #starligue

Credit to Juventus's kit designers for creatively evoking their heritage as Club That Does Crimes

We, as a nation, seem remarkably sketchy when it comes to Mexican things. Probably too many Spaghetti westerns on BBC2 back in the day.

But, yes, we aren’t, as yet, rounding up Spanish speakers for shits and giggles.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

Americans are doing their “we’re the real Mexicans” thing again.
Next up: it’s racist when Brits miss off the word “food” when talking about eating out or take away.

I don't know why someone would so confidently have this take now? The singles chart of recent times has had hardly any first week Number 1s.

Just say the singles charts were better when you were aged 10 and it was on telly, like a normal person.

They are advertising “Swiss Super League: Bradford City v Catalans”

How EE TV is describing the rugby league on later

The Canadians look happy
#icehockey

Breach is about to come flying out …

Legal challenges and regulator involvement: Potential implications of Pakistan Hundred snub | The Cricketer The BBC have claimed they have evidence to suggest Pakistan players will not be considered by Hundred teams with Indian owners

If the BBC believe their own story, how can they then broadcast the competition? Thoughts on The Hundred story: www.thecricketer.com/Topics/the-h...

Alysa Liu really was just so much better. And I am now in my “can’t tell you the element names but getting there with what the judges are looking for in the technical bits” stage.

Amber Glenn looks like she just wants to get out of that winner's seat
#olympics #figureskating

I think we're at the "It's just a preseason fixture" from the NRL side stage.
I'm three-screening here at the minute. Ice hockey, RL, figure skating ...

6 MINUTES - Pictures finally come through on BBC Three

I am going to have to make a decision between the figure skating final and the RL World Club Challenge.

I say a decision has to be made but it’s already done and I’ll be following KR-Broncos on updates.

My son had his special needs eligibility reviewed every year. It can be taken away at any annual review.

Those reporting on today’s SEND leaks don’t seem to know the system they’re covering.

My kind of place

Does the pub have a flat roof?

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Canva promo card with three match photos

Words and photos from Saturday's match between Hastings and Merstham are now online

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Astonished* at the number of reply guys on Facebook who are REALLY into Lent for the first time in their lives, replying to their favourite football team’s Ramadan Mubarak wishes with “What about Ash Wednesday?”

*Barely surprised at all.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I AM FURIOUS ON BEHALF OF KAZAKHSTAN IN THE FIGURE SKATING

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Pancake expert here. The annual rush to harvest pancakes on a single day has extremely deleterious effects on the local pancake ecosystem. By all means pick a few pancakes for your own use, but please leave some on the bush so that it can recover in its own time.

Your challenge for the day is to invent a ReformUK policy. On Shrove Tuesday next year we get to see if they’ve adopted it.

Remember, it should appeal to insane pensioners and absolutely nobody else. QT with yours!

If that UK Eurovision guy doesn’t have both parents in blue in wiki and family wealth visible from space then I will be moderately surprised