I do not even watch dashcam videos so I have no idea why YouTube recommended it, but LNER has posted one of a Flying Scotsman service from Edinburgh to Kings Cross starting at sunrise, with pop up facts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLcZ...

The sun is now trying to come up, but too late. I got wet enough I got my excuse to say "screw you diabetes" and make baguette frites as comfort food.

I am waiting at the tyre place and the rain has become super heavy. There is a story about my journey here but I still wait until I get home as there might be pictures.

Check the forecast, decide to book my tyre change for midday Thursday when the weather will turn nice. Wake up, check the forecast, rain to the middle of the afternoon. An at least 20 mile round trip within London in rain will not be fun.

Die Hard är visst en julfilm!

Been sent my bike insurance renewal quote, after the at fault accident in the summer I had been fearing this . It has gone up £70.50 and my NCB has been reduced by 2 years. I do not understand insurance, I assumed a claim would be expensive and a loss of NCB.

I made a mistake. I thought I would stock up now on crisps for Christmas with my supermarket order, so I unloaded them into a kitchen bin bag which is now overflowing. And that is just Tesco crisp flavours. It reminded me of last year when Christmas my snack box of crisps lasted until gone Easter.

My bike is back and road legal again. I was thinking I should go for a ride at the weekend to break in the new brake before replacing the tyre, as that will then need to be broken in too. But it is at the 1mm limit in the centre and it feels the wrong time of year to take risks with that.

While writing that last post (and reading the sources) Evri delivered a parcel. At 24-to-midnight (11:36pm). That is either really good service or really bad service. I am just glad I was up so it did not spend all night sat outside a front door that opens directly onto the street.

Harmlessly geo guessing in Sweden when I am affronted by this! It turns out to be a 19th century method for forging iron by metallurgist Gustaf Ekman who had visited forges in England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancash... www.jernkontoret.se/en/the-steel... sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presenta...

It has been several months since I last rode the bike, and I have just been on a literally 100 yard journey to the nearest mechanic to get the brake fixed and an MOT. Then I will need to get a new front tyre, then tax and insurance is due. Then I will be ready for the winter riding season!

'All I Want for Christmas Is You' är på plats 31 på Billboard Hot 100-listan den här veckan, vilket är den tidigaste medverkan på listan hittills sedan låten släpptes. Så nu vet ni.

The chemists used to place prescriptions in bins alphabetized by name, and all was good. But a few years ago it switched to numbered bins assigned at random, and twice in the past couple months I had prescriptions go missing so they had to search all the bins. What a strange thing to have done.

This is unwantedly (and unwontedly) exciting, a power cut! I am supposed to be on a priority register for information as I need to keep insulin in the fridge, time to see how well that works.

I sometimes play the Geoguessr Sweden map for free, taking as long as it takes to keep a perfect score because exploring is fun, but today I messed up by one unnamed way on the Mittuniversitet campus and lost a point. Also I broke a tooth eating falafel so that is gone too. Not the best of days.

There is a kind of "Name That Tune" element to logging on to Bluesky for the first time all day and deducing, in like two or three posts, the thing everybody is mad about

"You're ready now, you gotta show the world, with all the courage of a conqueror" is a strong lyric choice for the theme to the Netball World Youth Cup. A competition being held in Gibraltar and largely featuring Caribbean and Pacific Island and African nations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Hb...

Of course those projects will now both be interrupted by making tea and watching netball. Which collectively is somewhat overloading.

Wales vs Tonga time. The diversity of the continent of Europe is well represented at this World Youth Cup with host Gibraltar being joined by the regional qualifying nations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

U21 netball is not going to be high budget, but there are no commentators on the second games with Samoa vs Scotland looking like it is being shot on a 1990s web cam. Australia vs Northern Ireland visually looks good, but is more difficult to watch being 42–7 at half time so fuzzy picture it is.

Always good when the commentary (on netball) begins with one saying to the other"so this is your first time watching netball".

I have a lot of instruments for someone who cannot play any instrument: some. I decided on a whim to turn on my old childhood Yamaha keyboard I was sent years ago when my parents clear the loft before moving house. It turns on, but makes no sound. Which is disappointing but probably for the best.

As much as social media is pretty much my connection with the world, it is all just so horrible right now that I am barely here. But from tomorrow and for the next week-and-a-bit you can escape the world with a lot of free U21 netball on YouTube. www.youtube.com/@netballworl...

Tesco is advertising it being 30 years of its Clubcard without mentioning that an extortionist forced its introduction and was entrapped by it, before another attempt five years later, in what Wikipedia calls "incidents". The second attempt is quite a story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_b...

Idag lärde jag mig att Pablo Picasso levde samtidigt som både Charles Darwin och Eminem.

I am importing "CDs" into "iTunes," like I am some kind of museum exhibit.

Thank you for all the likes and reposts of the Kiruna Church move, it was (rightly) more popular than I expected.

I like that LKAB (the state owned mining company responsible for the church move) is calling it Den stora kyrkvandringen [The great church migration] after älgvandringen (the one with the elk and the river) while SVT is boringly calling it Den stora kyrkflytten [The great church relocation].

Blessing the church before the move, which should begin at 7:30am www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...

A good week for television. The new series of the New Zealand television programme Taskmaster started today and tomorrow Kiruna kyrka begins its two-day 0,5 km/h journey across town.

That Gulman routine is just perfect.

Ultimately, this is what I think is funny.

Australia is a member of Asia Netball and not the Oceania Netball Federation, and I cannot find out why. I understand why it moved continents in soccer, but Oceania is much stronger in Netball. I do not understand the world.

It is not just the U.K. where people do not care. "Det är dags att sluta misstänkliggöra och skapa krångliga hypotetiska ”men tänk om-scenarion” och se sanningen i vitögat: det är livsfarligt att vara trans och det blir allt farligare. Detta ligger helt i linje med konservativa krafters vilja."

Truly one of the funniest ever programmes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KCf...

I saw someone going out decorated in sparkly buttons at 4am, they were up early. Special instructions for enjoying this joke: become aware of a tradition from 19th century working class London culture, say it aloud, then questions whether it was worth the wait.

Asda is about to ring my door bell. I am using the compensation voucher from last time, but will they have brought all of my shopping this time?

Less than two weeks to go until we can all watch a massive wooden church migrating across a town in Arctic Sweden. lkab.com/en/events/th...

It really does look stupid from a duty of care perspective to not allow substitutes when it means someone having to bat with an arm in a sling.

My windowsill needs to slow down. My little GPS logger project had been slow going not helped by starting over four times as I learn more and change the code structure. And now I am obsessing over debugging screens like this one to get them perfect before continuing.

Fun lil game is seeing a skeet and trying to guess “U.S or U.K”

Pakistan lost the second T20 to Bangladesh by 8 runs. The score is the destination but that journey was Pakistan being all of Pakistan in the space of one innings.

Heavy rain here, and after the heat of the pst month it is glorious. Besides, I could not go out this weekend anyway as my bike needs new brake pads. A few years off and I forgot you need to check the brake pads or they wear away. Good luck to the cricket after this.

My next clinic appointment is going to be interesting as I just mixed up the insulins when syncing my pens. This is such awful design for a professional medical product, you cannot rename the pens yet have to manually assign the insulin type everytime you sync.

842 miles this weekend, 480 of them today and yet it was only an hour longer than yesterday. I do worry this is all becoming a bit too obsessional, I went to the end of the M4 and back just for the sake of it as it only added an extra 30 minutes. Though Port Abraham had toilets, unlike Porthcawl.

This visit bodies of water thing is catching on.

Today was a day. Why not to filter: did so up a queue on the A12 past a junction to encounter people start reversing. Someone said the road is closed and will be for four hours. Not sure ho legal any of it was, but I ended turning around and riding in the wrong direction back to the slip road.

I have gone to the only place in the U.K. that is neither hot nor sunny.

Italy has just qualified for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka!

England belatedly batting out a draw in the second test.