Charlie Budd

I’ll check next time I go.

I write an email called Five Good Things every week about good things I’ve seen that week. Not all news, but all positive! Here’s last week’s:

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Are there new chargers? The little one at the end has been rather ‘on and off’ over the years.

Vanessa Redgrave at a recent demonstration in support of Gaza at Lambeth Town Hall in London.

Buy plenty of WD40 to reduce the squeaking until it all settles down.

I'm not very #musical (gross understatement) but if you are, or you know someone who is, you're in #StratfordUponAvon tomorrow, you've got a #guitar, #ukulele, #banjo or #mandolin that needs restringing, you have the strings but don't know how to do it, our #RepairCafe has you covered. Pass it on!

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Motherfucking wind farms…

It’s delicious.

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

The England women’s football team celebrating after beating Spain on penalties in the Euro finals.

Very well done England’s women’s football team against Spain. Quite evenly matched to get to 1:1, and England win on penalties.
Great football, and a well deserved win. #engspa

Superb, Stephen. 😆

[Scene is Women’s World Cup match showing on big screen in pub, lots of FANS in pub watching it cheerfully, apart from one guy at the back looking grumpy] 1 FANS [as goal goes in]: YYEEEESSS! 2 COMMENTATOR 1 VOICEOVER ON THE TV: Ooh and there's been a VAR check on that goal 3 COMMENTATOR 2: Yeah Robyn it looks like there’s been a question about it... 4 [show a miserable gammony bloke watching the same from the back of the pub] COMMENTATOR 2: …from Brian at the back of the pub. 5 COMMENTATOR 1: Looking at the replay we can see Brian using this rare moment of uncomplicated national joy 6 COMMENTATOR 1: to talk about men. BRIAN [holding his pint while he watches the screen, grumbling his own commentary]: Grumble Grumble Grumble men’s game 7 COMMENTATOR 2: Yeah you can see from his body position he’s making a dumb and sexist comparison there 8 COMMENTATOR 1: The ref’s made her decision… [Ref returns to the pitch, making one of the big VAR speeches they’ve started doing through her head-mic] 9 REF: MY JUDGEMENT IS… 10 REF: BRIAN IS TALKING BOLLOCKS. 11 PEOPLE IN PUB: YEEEAAH 12 PEOPLE IN PUB [all pointing at Brian]: SHUT UP BRIAN SHUT UP BRIAN

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Here's a @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon for the #weekend #walking #walkies #familywalk #dogslife #dogs

Farage promises to build more jails by Our Reform Correspondent Nick Money BRITAIN'S next prime minister, Nigel Farage, has vowed to expand the prison service to deal with the increasing lawlessness in Broken Britain. Farage said it was imperative that we have more prisons to accommodate law-breakers such as Reform MPs. Said Farage, "No, let me finish! We are looking at hundreds more Reform MPs after the next election, and with our vetting systems we are guaranteed to have a vast number of criminal members of Parliament, who have stolen public money or pushed their girlfriends down the stairs." When asked how much all this would cost, the Reform leader explained in great detail that he didn't have a clue and couldn't care less. Farage also promised to send the worst offenders to El Salvador, following a successful pilot programme sending Reform supporters to live in Dubai.

When so much of the media rolls out the comfy red carpet for Farage, Private Eye trips him up and milkshakes him.
Be more Private Eye.

But then on a dry day, we'd be kicked out to ride bikes, make dens, annoy the general populace.

Superb.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

A group of scientist carefully examine hundreds of tiny dots on a worktop. "The good news is we successfully reduced the prototype to the size of a poppy seed" One of them explains "The bad news is we had bagels for lunch."

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Good morning Blue Sky

Two figures approach the Baggage Reclaim area of an airport. One says “We wouldn't need to put things in the hold if you brought fewer books on holiday.” Arriving on the carousel, amongst the bags and suitcases is a very large, well-stocked bookcase.

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

A Cornishware classic. I buy my wife personalised ones for Christmas/birthdays. She’d rather wash one up than use another clean mug from the shelf.

Yep, and Dolphin House Arts in Old Town too.

Cool

Ah, yes, of course! I’ve not been in yet, it’s not been there that long.

Is there a local bike shop?

I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.