David Chance

I would go to Australia if I lived with those two. Honestly.

Lillyball 🏏

Vietnaaarm Baaarli #TheArchers

Sanding been going on all afternoon above my head. At 5 I ask when it might stop, it being a Sunday. If there’s one reply that was guaranteed to make me incandescent with rage…
“About an hour max. Just trying to get in before Xmas. We work 2 jobs so can only do lil bits on weekends sorry mate”

John Buchan?

Aston Villa crest

The real Villans won’t be quaking in their boots.

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

When all you all dreamed about as a twenty something undergraduate manchild was the paradise called Galt’s Gulch.

www.ft.com/content/b127...

Royal Watch by the BBC

British version of Baywatch looks shit.

It’s going to be very funny when Arsenal rack up the best points total over four seasons without silverware (TM).
Shame it’s likely to be City, but this being footie you take your pleasure where you can.

Agreed. You can tell what kind of ‘in depth reporting’ is being done in this piece - which really is a Labour puff piece - when you get Taylor Swift mentioned but not library closures, for example. Expecting them to know about Sefton or The Wirral…

The North, not just pies and Andy Burnham, toots The Guardian.

From bricklayer to mayor: Steve Rotheram is quietly building a Liverpool success story With a reputation for getting things done, the man with ‘the dream job for any scouser’ has ambitious plans for his city

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I am sure he’s a nice guy - and given the unsavoury rep of other Labour pols here - but elected by just 16 percent of eligible voters, no mention of any of the pressing issues surrounding Liverpool.
Reads like slick Labour PR.

A cake crown.

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Super whiskers and stripes.

Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.

In Our Time - Shakespeare's Sonnets (Archive Episode) - BBC Sounds Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This is tremendous. I learned more than I did in my now long-forgotten degree.
It’s also very entertaining and engaging.

Pensive! ❤️

BBC Clock

@hiddenbritain.bsky.social
Delighted!

Central heating and the northerly migration of cats (forthcoming).

Perhaps feline folk memory of sunning themselves on a pyramid?

Tabby cat curled up on a chair next to radiator.

I fear that Bob - who has only moved from this spot to eat and pee - may have boiled his one and only braincell.

Sexy Beast film with Ray Winstone on sun lounger.

An artist’s impression of Bob the Cat curled up next to the radiator on this chilly #Caturday

Every year the Cycling Proficiency people came to the school where I worked to put the Year 5s through their little training course. If they passed, they received a Cycling Proficiency certificate at the end. It wasn’t rocket science. They always passed.

Except one year, a child didn’t.

I really don’t understand who her audience is, or what the purpose is. She’s not edgy or dynamic enough to cut it in the far right ecosystem and she’s a busted flush in the mainstream.

Oh dear. I watched some of it. It’s all rather sad and needy. Her delivery is awful.

The most entertaining footie match ever. And gosh…

FIFA peace prize

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Very well done indeed.

Wine!

Bottoms up Ambridge folk #TheArchers

Querelle of Felpersham

How did he get together with Etienne? Surely the rural bus service is not a transport of delight.