Opening day on the Bakerloop!

Oh look, it's time to wish the passenger railway a happy 200 years of existence.

Good morning from me and my bacon buttie.

Reader, completion didn’t happen a month later.

What in the Albert Speer is going on with this new White House ballroom? www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-...

Love a compulsory 7 minute update when you’re trying to get away fast.

Hey Thursday. 👋

It’s a very pleasant looking evening out there.

Remembering cheap energy bills. 🪦

Favourite 10 TV comedies in no particular order Smoggie Queens Nighty Night Spaced ‘Allo ‘Allo Modern Family The Royle Family One Foot in the Grave The Brittas Empire Motherland Schitt’s Creek

Down to 20°C in the flat. I don’t think it’s been this cool since April. Still got the windows open, obviously.

It's a bit blowy out there tonight. 💨

My Saturday evening plans.

Done my windows. So clear you wouldn’t know they had glass in them.

What do you all make of my cottage cheese and chilli jam cream tea? 😆

We’re here again, in body if not in spirit.

Thought I might be moving next week but the solicitors are continuing to work at a glacial pace. I've been in the mindset of "I might be moving in 3 weeks or so" since the middle of July and it's absolutely exhausting me now. I'm not just moving flat, I'm moving city, trying to start a new life! 🤪

Trump's helicopter fleet just went over again. It's like the Emperor arriving at the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

Oh I forgot to show off my silly Tricorder toy. It does different things depending on which disk is placed in the right most slot.

I see the government snatching the bad headlines back from the Tories only hours after a significant defection. It's just a rolling catastrophe isn't it?

Calgon (or supermarket own brand equivalent), has done the trick and fixed this.

I had a turkey bacon and avocado bagel and a pain au chocolat for breakfast and I'm already ready for lunch.

Current mood:

Quick guys there’s a sale on in the Sainsbury’s home/Habitat section. I got some new cutlery. Double redundancy as I’m going to have a full size dishwasher to myself for the first time.

Hate seeing the footage from town today. Yuk.

Marine One (I think) and a flight of military helicopters just went right overhead.

"We got him!" Babes, he handed himself in.

Finally got my Pentax ME-F out over the summer again, after spending over a year thinking it was broken. Kentmere 400 developed in Rodinal.

Does anybody else use Monzo Flex on the Bee Network and find it tries to turn every day's fare into a 3 month split?

Looks like it's going to be a Burnham vs Starmer proxy battle. I know which side my bread's buttered on.

On a knife edge as to whether I'm going to get £31 or £15.50 back in Delay Repay!

I see Apple has invented the Universal Translator with the new AirPods.

I see the Guardian has done another deep dive investigation that it’s really proud of that literally nobody will care about.

And LOL I'm onto my third solicitor.

Remembering when London was going to have two new tram systems and Crossrail was going to go to Kingston!

Don’t let anybody put anything on your house, folks. thenegotiator.co.uk/news/regulat...

For god's sake. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ok guys we made it to Friday.

Posting if anyone needs it for reference. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

So fed up with nothing happening with my move I just spent a silly amount of money on a replica Tricorder. 🖖 www.amazon.co.uk/Wand-Company...

Made it to the gym three mornings this week despite still not feeling quite right from last week's tonsilitis episode. You can all clap me now.

I voted for Ed in 2010, Corbyn in 2015 and Starmer in 2020. This is all my fault isn’t it?

So the hypno-boob guy is in charge of the Green Party. I can't wait to see how this goes.

There's an engineer here replacing a part in my hot water heat exchanger (the part his colleague broke in May when "servicing" the unit), and he's gave me a great big spiel about how dangerous it is, and how if he's not really careful 90 degree water is going to spray out and flood the flat.

Darren Jones has got a promotion. He seems to be one of the competent ones. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starting September with no excuses.

The Sunday anxiety is a triple strength tonight - the last day of August making it feel like summer is properly over, and the fact that in this month coming I should be finally doing the big move. Yikes.

I need to get ready to pop over to Stoke Newington for some birthday drinks but it’s going to take an hour to get there, it’s raining out and I’m stuck in my grandad armchair scrolling Instagram. 💀

I've been browsing furniture online for when I move and I've basically decided that I'm completely in love with everything on the Swyft website. Sad to confirm my budget won't stretch to furnishing the whole place from there, mind. swyfthome.com

Let’s see you at 21 (ish) On my first holiday abroad without parents, glamorous Ayia Napa.