Sarah Ramanauskas

View of the Eiffel Tower shrouded in fog with just the bottom third glinting in the sunshine. Autumn trees in the foreground against classic Parisian apartment blocks.

Autumnal view from the study ....

I am looking forward to reading this (which I'm sure you already know about) www.foyles.co.uk/book/enshitt...

I'm English. I'm not entirely sure who you're talking about. But I get the gist.

Was cycling round the Bois du Boulogne the other day when a French bloke overtook me (on an ebike, I should point out) with Tainted Love warbling from a speaker. I said - 'ah, Dave Ball, il est mort l'autre jour'. Apparently the song was the French bloke's favourite - 'je l'ecoute en boucle' (loop).

Someone sent me the ‘trench coat’ pic. As he’s not very tall, perhaps it’s just a very big blazer? 😊

Heh heh 😼

David’s famous picture of Bonaparte wrapped in a rather splendid shawl on a rearing grey horse urging his men over the Alps.

You’re right! I didn’t realise he’s also got Napoleon syndrome. Here’s Jacques-Louis David’s painting of Bonaparte crossing the Alps. If it was truly to scale, Napoleon would have been about 7’ 2” 😊

That’s wonderful! Which state are you in?

It comes across like - I need to hide behind this enormous weapon because really I have no idea what I’m doing. Imposter syndrome, with ammo.

It’s really sad. I first travelled to the US on business in the early 90s. It was amazing - rich, yet friendly. Diverse yet with community. So much has been lost, and for what?

English person here. Why is Bovino carrying an enormous gun? Is he off to Sudan tomorrow or what?

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Feminist cultural criticism - I’m in.

Ah OK that makes sense. Here on bluesky at the moment, all I seem to get - in between cat updates and bird pictures - is ICE videos. That and the ballroom, obviously. Thanks for the response.

English person here, reading the thread. Why is she being so polite?? His agents are breaking the rules. She has to get him to agree to rein them in. Instead she (apparently) is wiffling on about Halloween.

Any excuse to footle about on johnlewis.com 😆

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Hi, if you have fake halloween cobweb outside, please take it down. It's nightmare for birds who get entangled and die. The cases even coming at the hedgehog rescues with hogs getting so entangled it's causing terrible wounds & in one case toe amputations. Please, please keep it indoors 🙏

Qobuz is excellent, have been using it since 2020. Lossless for classical is great, and so far as I can see has pretty much the same catalog as Spotify. Good ‘Discover’ function for all the latest releases.

But .. but .. you only just finished doing up the last one! Or was that @rolypeck.bsky.social ? Whereabouts are you?

So sorry. It’s so difficult when you don’t know what might have happened. 😢

Happy to remain anglo on that one!

Lovely! Except perhaps the tripes.

err ... #NoThanks

At Gail's, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread? The economics and migration behind the Gail's expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)

Ah! Bah non - le monte meuble, ca c'est essentielle.

*around.

Beautiful, curvaceous baby blue Citroen DS convertible driving round the roundabout in front of the Louvre's main courtyard. Crowds of bemused tourists in the background with guides' flags waving pointlessly.

This was my favourite Citroen DS from the 70th anniversary rally yesterday. And yes, those are confused tourists milling aorund outside the Louvre yesterday morning. We were all kicked out, after they discovered the theft, just in time to see the rally. Interspersed with police motorbikes. #Louvre