Gareth Thomas

Ah, the one with the amazing Top C!

Spotted this one in a remote mountain garage in northern Honshu two years ago. A real WTF moment!

Oh, which one?!!Please tell me it was Beautiful Balloons 🎈

We all remember the scene where she sings Making Whoopee while draped across the Grand Piano, but my favourite is probably the audition scene 🤣

Was he in it? I was too busy watching Michelle Pfeiffer 😊

Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.

Perfect for the wee small hours, from one of my favourite films 😊

Classic!

+1

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

A sentiment with which Wigan probably agrees

Come friendly bombs…

On first glance I assumed it was £150k per library, but no.

To call it derisory would be a gross understatement.

Trump says ‘special relationship is obviously not what it was’ after Starmer’s refusal to back Iran strikes – UK politics live US president doubles down on criticism of the prime minister, saying ‘he has not been helpful’

Say “We think of you as a vassal state” without saying “We think of you as a vassal state”…
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Apparently, the Greens are “populists with no answers”

As opposed to unpopulists with no answers, Darren?

“Labour values” here described as a concept that is “entirely alien”.

Speak for yourself (and for Blue Labour), pal.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Whatever else this is from Paul Ovenden, demanding Labour MPs back Mahmood’s immigration crackdown, it is the most over-written, pretentious thing I’ve seen for some time.

National Trust membership was £63 ten years ago. Now it’s over £100 The charity has lost more than 119,000 members since 2023

Cover price of The Times has more than doubled from £1.40 to £3.20 over the same period.

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I feel confident that the sort of people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying tax would say that those fleeing war in other countries are not our concern and they should seek refuge in a neighbouring country. In this case I’d suggest Iran, which they can reach by small boat.

Small boats

Will there be enough small boats, I wonder?

I was right to be incredulous. His performance in the role up to that point had been woeful. We’re now likely to finish the season in mid-table, but well outside the playoffs. Do you count that as a successful season? I don’t.

Hindsight’s a wonderful thing.

Seen one hunting in the day around here, which is never a good sign. That one looks in fine fettle!

We used to call our youngest “E**** Mad Scissorwoman Thomas” when she went through a phase of cutting up everything in sight (including, on one memorable occasion, her hair 😱), but she grew out of it by the age of 11 🤣🤣🤣

(Name edited out to spare her blushes!)

They killed 150 little girls at their school.

Really?! Mine seem to survive OK, but maybe I’m not sufficiently attentive!

Nope - but then I’ve been driving LHD cars in the UK for 20 years 🤣