Rob Read

Safe travels!

Same here in South Yorks :)

Ball in Play: Are We Seeing Less Football in the Premier League This Season? | Opta Analyst Are we seeing less of the ball in play in the Premier League this season? We look at all the Opta data to find out.

- The total delay for taking free-kicks in Newcastle 2-3 Liverpool was 27 minutes and seven seconds.
- Arsenal have used up 40 minutes and six seconds taking corners in their seven games this season.

Some remarkable stats in this @optaanalyst.optajoe.com article theanalyst.com/articles/pre...

Couldn’t see that at first since my phone was set to block pop-ins

Reminds me of a They Might Be Giants lyrics - “I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now”

TUC warns Tory plan to leave the ECHR is an attack on workers’ rights The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.

Maybe the unions will finally realise that it’s better to have a Labour government then a Conservative / Reform government?

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/tuc-...

Ah, so I see what Jenrick means about wanting to live in a properly integrated society

It was v moving to experience - even just streamed in UK

Daniel Barenboim announces he has Parkinson’s disease The conductor, 82, resigned from Berlin State Opera in 2023 but hopes to continue to conduct the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra when his health allows

Sadly he announced earlier this year that he has Parkinson’s - and I think that’s why the audience/orchestra so emotional in response (also brilliant performance) www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f....

Didn’t enjoy Great Expectations - Pip is a rich guy in London. Big deal

Well done Google AI … “there’s no new Slow Horses tonight because it’s released on a Wednesday and today is Wednesday”

Oo La La! Un belle accueil à Octobre

Maria and her gang of renegade children show us what cycling paradise looks like in The Sound of Music (1965)

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Julie Andrews!
Born October 1, 1935

hardly anyone will watch Starmer's appearance at Labour conference today but it was probably the best speech he's ever given

he clearly signposted what he stands for - a diverse, tolerant, decent Britain - and how be believes progressives are in an existential fight with the populist right

I want to invent an English equivalent like Radio Doris. Might start using that

I’d never thought about literal meaning of English “rumour mill” but same!

Ignorant question - but is any AI system claiming to experience anything when they engage in human interaction?

I suspect the whole thing is a PG Wodehouse satire set down in Suffolk - a story on the BBC on their local library service, as well as Cllr Faircloth-Mutton includes a radio presenter called Lesley Dolphin, a library chief exec called Bruce Leeke and a union organiser called Winston Dorsett.

William Rothenstein painted 'The Gardener,' during the 1930s while living in the village of Far Oakridge, in the English Cotswolds. In his memoirs, he wrote about his admiration for local craftspeople and the enduring rural traditions he discovered in Gloucestershire.

Butchers and Jennings

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

I read David Reich's book on ancient human history a while back but I'm sure it's already out of date now. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I dream of a webpage that has already decided wisely for me on my cookie preferences

Morning

One of my favourites, Lychnis coronaria (Silene coronaia). Looks wonderful here against the yellow froth of Alchemilla mollis flowers.

#silene #silenecoronaria #lychnis #lychniscoronaria #rosecampion #stalwartplants

Hard to get it alight, I would think?

He is bringing joy to millions though

Big skies!

Are you anywhere near the High Cs?

What a name though

Too tired to construct a good joke from this artist’s name