Did he leave a monkey there?

Robert Jenrick may be many things, but he's no Shari Lewis.

My recent purchase: the Kindle version of Carrie. Guess the gym floor might need some attention?

"How To Add $2,500 To Your Holiday Costs".

Excited that Amazon’s new “gun-free” Bond graphics have taken the franchise right back to its roots.

It's not her best, but I'm enjoying the new Taylor Swift. That is all.

I hope they show the heats and not just the final.

Strange name for a dog

I thought "200 years" was a typo, but it's not. A remarkable achievement.

ME: hey mr. tambourine man, play a song for me MAN: *tambourine noise* ME: great

It's not the Napoleonic sea battle reenactments that count so much as the French ships you make along the way.

Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne

Lovely Irish lad who's nearly drunk (5,5)

Go to UN. Hold up a Big White Card. What could possibly go wrong?

As always, Zoe is here to make sense of the situation with some handy facts.

Surely would’ve needed hands as well?

We're all thinking it's Tom Hanks, right?

Clarinets have come home for the year fives. Facebook parents' group broadly in agreement.

Couldn't find the £5000 pledge level that guarantees neither @christhebarker.bsky.social nor @quantick.bsky.social will darken your door for an entire calendar year, so went with the basic one instead.

Misty views along the Exe valley this morning.

Meta AI having a normal one.

New Hampshire's state motto is, of course, "Live Free¹ or Die²". [1] from vaccines [2] from preventable disease

Fascinating. I wonder how many of Ronald Bergen's obits are still to be published?

Loved her in "Michael Clayton".

Trump's not even brought the real Melania with him, that's one of the inflatable ones

It’s always difficult, I think, to do a post out of the blue where you just come straight out and say “BUY MY BOOK HERE LOOK HERE IT IS” without any preamble, but sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and do it. Tl;dr: BUY MY BOOK HERE LOOK HERE IT IS levparikian.com/index.php/pr...

I also have the BBC2 clock from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social. Honoured to be on the same page as the H2G2 et al guy!

How fast would Oblique Seville be if he ran straight?

This. My mum was born in (then) Rhodesia, but I doubt they'll be around to tell me to go home, other than to Scotland which, given the ratio of St George to Union flags yesterday, might not be off the agenda.

9yo's musical instrument choices for Year Five are clarinet, flute, or violin.

Now you see, THIS is how I remember it when the video was being shot…

Every school shooting is a dark moment for America.

Why is there a milkman in your shower, and WTF is he delivering in bottles?

Watching the cricket largely to see what happens when the national alert goes off at 3pm.

I get one of these emails once a week. The only roll I'm on with LinkedIn is deleting one of these emails once a week.

“Out with the dead wood” Lisa Nandy still Culture Secretary

Really wanted to do a Bill Watterson inspired Bunny Vs Monkey cover for this week’s Phoenix 🙏 And @sammyborras.bsky.social colours knocked it out the park.

starmer reshuffling his cabinet on transfer deadline day raises the very real possibility of manchester united paying £65m to sign yvette cooper

This is never not going to be confusing.

You can always rely on Moose to ruin your relaxing lunch break by posting a beautiful joke that requires knitting your brows to appreciate.

Ruben Amorim/Russell Martin job swap on the cards?

Props to the BBC website for reducing Clinton Morrison's punditry to something that a 4yo could have figured out.

Happy birthday!

Back in 2020 I posted this.

Schadenfreud: to derive enjoyment from mother people's misfortune

I'm not in favour of many of the "innovations" for the Crisp Cricket, but having the batters' live scores on the backs of their shirts is very useful.

Anyone claiming Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth has clearly never shopped in the chill fresh aisles of Stratton Sainsbury's. ❄️🥶

Shouldn't that read "... AND then I lost my arm"?

Enjoyed Superman, but there was no need to dredge up the appalling Five Years Time by Noah And The Whale for the soundtrack.