Enjoyable sunny hour in Campbell Park while my broken thumb is denying me football.

I have done the sums on my reshaped council ward, and it appears that I have to vote for a party I despise in order to keep out one I detest. Thank you FPTP.

Elise has legs for ballet but her hands are all jazz.

Can’t say I’m happy with this personal attack on me in the current Viz. Uncalled for

there was a young scouse played guitar who was a great songwriting star but sometimes he'd sit and come up with shit oh well ob-la-di ob-la-da

iPhone BlueSky: since about 10 days ago, if I click on a pic or video then close it, the app boings back to the top of my timeline rather than returning to where I was. Anyone else?

I rarely subscribe to sporting conspiracy theories, but I'm now convinced that Italy are throwing this to avoid Wales being replaced by Georgia which would mean Italy reverting to perpetual wooden spoon #WALITA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I get very cross when YouTube follows the thing I've asked for by immediately moving onto something I didn't ask for. Except when it reminds me of this utterly lovely lyrical delight. Why isn't Nick Parker more famous? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d7V...

Rather admire booking dot com for offering us a reduced - £42 - taxi ride from the airport to our hotel, which offers this view from the window.

This Europa League match on Thursday sounds like it’s going to be the friendliest in history.

Removing mute on #Strictly. Adding mutes for three different variants of #Traitors.

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

Settled weather then.

Expedia is very helpful for finding out which airlines go where at what price. I then, every single time, have to go to the airline's own site in order to actually buy the tickets. It's a strange business model.

The scammers have learned that I don’t reply to unexpected financial requests from my wife, and have decided that maybe I’d be more likely to repond to emails from, um, myself

I would like to thank V2G startup Wallbox for the unintended honesty of their reply.

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

There is a delight in trying to guess how Bluesky threads got from A to B.

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Yep that worked.

I have found that the phrase "can I just TALK to someone?" works much better than "at Santander, my voice is my password". Always fails at the first attempt, which riles me up exactly the right amount to nail the intonation and emphasis on the second go.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Briefly trying to watch The Hundred, with its hideous marker pen colours and thumping music. Have to conclude that the design brief was to make cricket attractive to young people by writing down everything that old people loved about it and doing the exact opposite.

Hoping the internet would help with pronounciation of Scots Gaelic dearg, which I know is roughly “jerrag”. 15 years ago there were sites of rated, crowdsourced pronounciations. Now it’s all computer voices confidently saying “dee-arg”. One site has a dozen dee-args for how to say dearg in Welsh 🤦‍♂️

I know the football’s on and the Paris TdF stage only lights up in the final 20 seconds, but I don’t want to miss the last two hours of Ned Boulting/David Millar on ITV4. So many hours of entertainment and insight over the last 15 years. 😢

Angen lot o lwc heno, ond ar hyn o bryd does dim lwc o gwbl. #EngWal

This is, basically, the reason that I come to this site.

It's tennis season, so once again I find myself grinding my teeth at the unwillingness of "professional" broadcasters to pronounce even the most simple and common of Czech names correctly. Jiři, Balding. Not Jiri. Jiři. At least try.

Almost certainly the best photo I've ever taken of some ducks.

The one silver lining from Kevin de Bruyne leaving @mancity.com is that we won’t have to listen to Jamie Carragher’s teeth-grindingly pig-ignorant mispronounciation of his name.

Our sacred annual ritual has begun.

93:20!!!

Checking in on the market carnage to find that some of my follows have wormholed to a different reality.

Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

Sporza: "You're the first one to win the Strade in the Rainbow Jersey, how does that feel?" Pogi: "I don't know why everyone keeps saying this, because if I remember well Lotte Kopecky won here last year." That's what we call a worthy worldchampion!!! 🌈🙏

Given that my Walking Football club has issued me with a written warning for the language that I used when I got kicked last week, I feel that an audit might be appropriate @profanity.accountant

If you’ve been unfortunate enough to have shat the bed, it’s not a good a good idea to just lie there in a state of self loathing. Be like Spud and get up and change the sheets.

I am Lord Smug of Smuggingdon Hall following my tiebreaker answer in today’s OQL individual quiz and I can find nobody else to share it with so here you are.

My last visit: bucketing down. Olympic opening ceremony: bucketing down. City v PSG: bucketing down. That place makes Manchester look like the Atacama.

Jordan taking the Brighton result well I see.

Liz Kershaw’s Mastermind round almost certain to be the first, and last, where two of the answers* are venues that I’ve gigged at. * The Stables, MK Rose

I prefer to think of the Dutch as just plain-speaking.

Missed the anniversary, still going strong.

Does dim digon o bobl ma sy’n mwynhau siarad am pêl-droed.

Look, I have stuff to do today. Who: David Tennant Holmes: Matt Frewer Poirot: David Suchet Marple: Joan Hickson Robin Hood: Kevin Costner Bond: Timothy Dalton Dracula: Klaes Bang Dad's Army Character: Sgt Wilson Soap character: Jinx Jenkins Blue Peter presenter: John Noakes

Diolch am y dorf o siaradwyr sydd wedi fy nilyn yma heddiw. Gobeithio na fyddaf yn rhy siomedig.

For sale, cat shoes, never worn. I honestly don't know what I was thinking.

An odd name for a collection of Shostakovich, Grappelli, Piazzolla and Springsteen.

First they came for the smokers, and I was like fine but what about sports presenters who ask competitors how they feel