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The swifts are all gone from Perpignan, France, except for a few bewildered ones wondering where the rest have disappeared to. It feels really sad, not having them screeching around the place.

Smoke from a wild fire in Jonquières, Heurault, which is over 150km from Perpignan. The smoke was all over and day became night.

Smoke from a wild fire in Jonquières, Heurault, which is over 150km from Perpignan. The smoke was all over and day became night. Seven sapeurs pompiers have been injured trying to put out the flames.

The whole region is dry as a bone.

Smoke last night from a wild fire in Jonquières, Heurault, which is over 150km from Perpignan. The smoke was all over town and day became night. Seven sapeurs pompiers have been injured fighting the flames.

Tim would be proud of you! He was quite the trencherman. I loved reading his travel tales. x

Putting an ice cube or two on the afflicted part would help enormously, I am sure.

I know this experience will not put you off future toasted marshmallows, for we are not built that way. 😊

Connie relaxing on my lap, having just shared a great, growly tug-of-war in the garden with one of her scruffiest toys. She is a gentle, ginger cockapoo and she enjoys a right tussle xxx

Connie has just given up the fight with me and her scruffy toy, and has opted for a little sleep xxx

Biden and Harris paid billions of your tax dollar and sent millions of weapons and strategic support, inc soldiers, to the Israeli Government. To destroy and genocide unarmed Palestinians in their hundreds of thousands. I think that is quite low, don't you?

Alternatively it is saying "I can park at home". It is like a gentle "up yours" to all the people grumbling about not being able to park their cars outside their houses, or having to pay for the privilege.

A look back at the British parliamentary expenses scandal - EST By Matt Evans, EST Ambassador to Great Britain. Matt is a History and Politics student at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK. It is approaching six years since the expenses scandal bro...

Trust me, I fiddled taxpayers' money.
"Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (was) criticised for claiming £44,000 to help with mortgage repayments on what was alleged to be (her) “second home” in London, despite (her) children going to school there."
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I wonder who dropped the bombs? She doesn't say.

That could have been my actual recurring dream right there. Leaning my bike against something and walking away from it without locking it up. But in my dream it is always missing when I come back to find it, and that incurs a dreamlike search.

Well a skinny little kid once threw a stone at a tank.

I always used the most advanced U lock I could buy, but I guess my bikes have always been nickable. A kindly policeman once helped me saw through a cable lock that someone else had put around my bike when I was in a swimming pool.

Thirteen. Lovely Eddy Merckx bike was the first in 1974...three from my garage in London, two from garage in France, one from a garden in London, three (well) locked in street, one locked outside police station. I forget the rest. Now I have a Brompton and keep my remaining three bikes indoors.

Two rising bollards in a quiet street in Perpignan, France, with signs of a vehicle having tried to bash through. Behind there are two rows of bollards protecting people from pavement parking - and one white car parked on the pavement where the bollards end.

Hello ‪@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social. Are you on holiday in the south of France by any chance?

Not quite. The BBC imply that the Israeli army are doing "crowd control". That would explain the deaths, see.

Why do the BBC mention this Israeli lie in their hushed, sad tones? Because they have to "both sides" the murder of unarmed, starving adults and kids.

My favourite film! x

They go on the road.

Little yellow cargo bike with yellow wheels, completely decked out in big yellow sunflowers and yellow garlands. Spotted in Amsterdam of course! Behind it is one of Amsterdam's many pancake cafés.

Or not, as the case may be 😘

I feel for you. Reminds me of the first time I pronounced fuchsia.

If there is ever a reckoning at Den Haag, she will be the one sitting in the dock with Biden.

She funded the Israeli genocide of Palestinians with billions of your tax dollars, weapons, soldiers and strategic support, along with doing nothing about Israel's slaughter of civilians. So what did she call her genocide?

Proof, please, for your evidence-free claims.

I don't like to meet people who enable genocide and starving kids. She may be charismatic to you but you should have met some of the beautiful little kids she helped blow up.

Flamingo photo by Joseph Hiard. One of the many flocks in Leucate and that region. I love this pic.

No cheating post your Lock Screen. Flamingo south of France.

Mine too.

Yes true - I am not usually so kindly to people of his ilk.

I just saw him today being told off for having the wrong ticket on first class out of Paddington at 17:34. He should be our spokes per for the befuddling and complicated pricing structures on UK trains

He was not pro Brexit - his response was honest and nuanced, as it should be. After all the EU is hardly jumping to it to prevent a genocide, are they?

I think it is an enormous success that we socialists can emerge from the total hammering we have received from Blair's despicable leadership to present and help form another socialist party. We have been vilified, and I think this new party will prove all the fçè§ers wrong.

So sorry - I am in France and I have just been asked to verify my Facebook and Instagram accounts to accept adverts. Non merci. I am so sorry and don't think this law will hold for long.