Absolute banger of an album - Stranger is still absolutely epic.

Okay this is awful and the impacts can only be bad, but in this once instance he for real looks like he needs them.

Buttering both ends of a piece of Waitrose stone baked baguette and calling it a ‘Darth Maul’

No questions at this difficult time.

And in other news Canada will compete in Eurovision

Gowan you better not rep Canada for Eurovision

My 14yo had to navigate ‘trans athletes shouldn’t compete’ with her tutor yesterday evening. I was very proud of her for continuing to argue her points to a grown up. In other news, looking for a new tutor.

I love how Starmer even manages to reduce £4.7b down to a petty dick move. He really is such a cock.

The star jasmine is finally flowering and pretty fragrant this evening

Oooof going through a drawer of T-shirts to see what I can get rid of and I hit the Eurovision seam. That hurt more than I expected.

Very long shot but has anyone lost this key on a train that arrived at Victoria from Kent this morning? I’ll hand it to the guard. #southeastern #lostproperty

Banquet Records Jeff Goldblum album signing yesterday. He was very sweet (and very extra *obv*) about the dinosaur my daughter had crocheted him and it meant such a lot to her.

Finally cool enough to throw open the windows and clear out the heat and some fecker has a bonfire

Washing machine borked, dehumidifier borked. This weather is not messing about.

Okay finds processing was fine. Me and Op Sig now on a less formal footing.

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

I am so gutted my digging day is cancelled (did I say I love digging?). Half day of finds processing, aka 10 trays of opus signinum and a toothbrush #fetchamsprings

i got an email telling me there was more information now available about the Die Toten Hosen concert in Berlin and awwww, that's all very nice information.

Wandering around purely for a cool down, it looked like all the fridges in Sainers last night were either broken or under duress, while most of the freezers were having to be emptied. We are so cooked. (nb, Waities was operating smugly with all fridges chilling quails eggs & rope grown mussels)

The whole world* smells like hot electrics * Leatherhead

Don’t get me wrong, I love owls but that effing tawny owl was going alllllll night. He should have got the memo by 2am that there were no ladies around and it was time to stfu but no, mr lover lover was 110% sure he was going home lucky.

Turns out I really like digging #fetchamsprings

What ever happened to the nonbinary gold prospector? They made a fortune in them/their hills.

Starmer considering his options? Couldn’t happen to a nicer son of a tool maker ™️

Best dad in the world

A brutalist service station on the M6. My best selling t-shirt. Make of that what you will. gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page/forton-eco-friendly-unisex-t-shirt

Fab idea - back in May trips to York and Carlisle suddenly got a whole lot more religious.

As a fam we are mildly obsessing about Poor Murdered Woman and local folk - mind blown finding out that Hanky the squire is buried in Fetcham church. Next stop Leatherhead Common youtu.be/ksCNa3fyPlM?...

My current ‘ai is crap’ soapbox is how bad it is at pattern matching in photos. Thought this was a bug, and previously insisted St Paul’s was Buckingham Palace (like I would ever) just bc very popular railings vs actual finial pattern matching. Harrumph.

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

Normally round our way we see a lot of flags on cars when it’s stuff like the World Cup. Really interesting to note that the St George flag may be suffering a bit from associating with the wrong kind of people.

The Stranglers (plus palace) performing Golden Brown

These Hampton court palace festival things are a very very strange experience

Group of teenagers lurking outside a Curry’s trying to bully you into buying them an iPad so they can go on Pinterest

Glad to see that The Stranglers had endorsed rain ponchos years before festival season …

So is this trying to force verification on all of us?

Rush better not get bored of playing Subdivision before they reach Toronto in August.

school advise a £20 a child spend for yondr bags from September this year. Fuck off.

This is a lovely obit (if a bit late). I loved Vila so much www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

That thing where you regularly flag a concern to multiple people and then you get a snotty scolding email about the very thing you have regularly been flagging.

I guess the only scant consolation is that scanning pokestops was the biggest pain in the arse ever and I only contributed once to help the kill bots

Sorry but hate presenting this as “ooh this is the scary future under reform” like this isn’t the Scary Present under Labour. This is not Reform’s Britain, this is Labour’s Britain. Its here its now and laying responsibility explicitly outside of the Actual Current Gov is a major mistake

Starmer just endlessly sounds like a Facebook nan with a hot take quote posting something rather someone with the power to actually do something. Sickening. Awful.

‘Lithuania’ #Photography by Liudvikas Ruikas (1977) #Lithuania

Unit one’s in trouble and it’s scared out of its wits

Rain can be irritating (oh yes) but it does help to bring out archaeological features Here, for instance, is a nice Iron Age linear gulley #Durotriges26

marketing strategy

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

So many magpie babies this time of year. I love ‘em.

FFS. He's 61 years old and has been in positions of power pretty much his entire adult life. If he's a bully, it's not because his skills are "a work in progress," it's because he chooses to be a bully. Which doesn't surprise me, because most of his decisions as PM betray a shitty rightwing mindset.