Got a new Deform UK councilor? Fly tipping? Email them. Bus route scrapped? Email them. Streetlights out? Email them. Local school closed? Email them. Pavement like the Somme? Email them. Make the bastards work.

Royal Navy destroyer & French Navy aircraft carrier heading to Persian Gulf…… joint operation to open Hormuz?

Qanon believes there is a global pedeophile conspiracy among very rich men - see Epstein AND that it’s Trump fighting against it Have I got this right?

Consolation election result for our family Greenwich, where two of our mixed race grandchildren are growing up. Reform have just 1 of 55 councillors - same as before Remember Greenwich council includes Eltham, where Stephen Lawrence was murdered. Maybe there’s been some learning/progress

Quote. ‘All over England today, hundreds of new councillors with remits that cover potholes, bins and adult social care are going to be meeting to figure out how to stop the boats.’ 😞

Wonderful!!! Zelensky & Ukraine graciously ALLOWING Russia to have a parade…….in Moscow…..

Long past time broadcasters & press in this country got off it’s collective backside and started asking Reform difficult questions……..and refuse to accept their deflections Maybe HIGNFY invites Farage to appear - if/when he says no they can substitute a chicken and ask the questions anyway

Spanish cod tonight; sauce is ready just poach the fish in top for 10 minutes et voila!

Arsenal v PSG final Irresistible force v immovable object We’ll find out soon

BBC 10’clock news seen by majority of UK US President’s statement described as “Alice in Wonderland “

How will the US, and Donnie in particular, cope with the World Cup? A sporting event that is not scripted, where the winner is not pre determined About as well as they’re doing with their Iran war where Captain America was supposed to vanquish all in a few hours

“It’s like an orange version of Groundhog Day.”

Arsenal 1-0, rolling back the years all the way to the 70s!

A question to US residents who follow these ramblings I’ve seen a lot of posts about the current redistricting surge If that works as planned then states would become deeper red or deeper blue Is there a danger that creates two Americas with little in common and pulling away from each other?

Euro Champions League semi final Arsenal-Atletico soon Just one goal in it at the end , I imagine; could easily go to penalties

I’m British,when I post about USA I try to make it just about how America affects rest of the world. What goes on in the US is for Americans to talk about, not me But I do find it hilarious the Democrats are described as “far left radicals” when 99% would fit easily in the British Conservative Party

We found a potato at the back of the fridge

Fed up with scrabbling around to find passwords every time we log in somewhere (cos you can’t have the same one for many) we’ve spent an hour collecting them together…….. there’s more than 50!!!!

Ali’s told me I’m not allowed to pronounce wifi as “whiffy” any longer & especially not when asking for a whiffy code

Evening out in town for first time in ages - how did everyone get so tall?

Poster in restaurant this evening; scale 1:9000000 So France is 9 million times bigger than the print - I think that’s rather wonderful

It’s our wedding anniversary (44th) & we’re heading into town this evening for drinks and dinner Both now wishing we’d booked the table for earlier…..

At my annual check up Doctor: You’re the same weight as when you were 30………..but some of it’s in different places Ali laughed at this for far longer than I’d have liked

Banksy nailing it again

So you know where you are USA - on the day of the King’s visit

PSG 5 v Bayern 4 I’m going for Arsenal 1-0 tomorrow

The irony that it was a monarch who spoke truth to power in the US Senate today…….and Johnson & Vance had to sit there and listen

Hawthorn’s in flower!

Evening walk, sunset getting later & later

Sabastian Sawe ran the London marathon earlier today in a new world record time 26 miles in less than 2 hours - incredible!

Horse Chestnut time!!!

40 years ago today our first child was 12 days old, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded & a radioactive cloud was heading west - scary times

From now on the bad guys in feature films should always have American accents because that’s the assumption we should make

It is mad, apparently 50% of parkrun participants are women. How many sports events are there where women feel safe. There are no changing facilities at most parkruns and it isn’t competitive (except against yourself). This legal threat risks killing the movement for nothing.

Dear America: Please stop whinging on about how long it will take to rebuild trust and credibility after Trump is gone. It's not coming back. The world has moved on. You made your choice.

Trump now threatening the people of the Falklands with having their land annexed Doesn’t understand that it’s the right wing parties here who are strongest for the Falklands - the further right they are the more adamant He’s succeeded in uniting all British political parties against the US

We’ve just put the garden furniture out so keep an umbrella handy

American History Hits podcast on BBC Sounds is fantastic For my generation USA was just there, flawed, doing it’s best but at heart well meaning We didn’t really know its history&that didn’t matter The episode on Washington as a great president emphasised his exercise of quiet power and restraint

Worked for a while on a multi national program with colleagues from across Europe One evening over a beer we worked out drivers attitudes when approaching a pedestrian crossing Germany - you will stop UK - you should stop France - you might stop Italy - pedestrian crossing?

It’s nearly 11pm, so no solar, but UK is still running on 90% non fossil fuel (check national grid on line) go ahead and fight your oil wars USA

What a fuck up

Ali “what’s my bag doing on the floor “ 3yo grandson looking at it intently “it’s not doing anything grannie”

Everything seems to point towards problems for Trump after November Does that mean, following the great success in Iran, he’ll be in a hurry to get things done this summer? By “things” I mean Cuba & Greenland

Too many people seem to accept the argument that while it is terrible for other countries to kill civilians in war, when their own country does it, it can be justified. Explains much of the strategic and ethical disaster we are facing.

Watching BBC 10 O’clock news and there’s an item critically examining a decision by BBC management That’s normal here but does this happen elsewhere?

Champions League semi finals Arsenal v Atletico Bayern v PSG England, Spain, Germany & France I know which game I’m watching

Arsenal 1-0, it’s like the old days Bayern-Real on the other hand……

London kids & grandkids back home after Easter hols in Vietnam The way things are now it’s a relief that journey’s over