Was once prevented from using an escalator because Michael Portillo was doing a piece to camera whilst wearing a carpet.

While I didn't necessarily view the Saltire as entirely innocuous, I wouldn't have put it on a par with the Hakenkreuz, until I passed through a neighbourhood (central Scotland) yesterday where it adorned every other streetlamp (significantly, along with a couple of Union Jacks).

@davidallengreen.bsky.social For practical purposes, banks in Scotland do close on the same dates now (with one or two exceptions) as those in England and Wales, even if it's not an official bank (i.e. public) holiday up here.

Government has hardly helped its position regarding the accommodation of asylum seekers by failing to stamp down hard on racism. Appeasement of bigotry doesn't work.

Appropriately enough, brilliant blue skies today (while I was over in Embra). These probably the best of the pics.

Post someone who looks good in a hat. (Here we go, three for the price of one.)

Tfw, you put soap on your hands before checking the water tap is working on a train lavatory.

Angus Deayton for Masterchef.

Two days before.

Age verification? I remember bang paths.

RIP Glen Michael.

17° up here, by the way.

FGTH on Top of the Pops tonight, hoping it's not prescient.

If anyone's really stuck I have available my Wynnster Hummingbird tent from 1998. Only one cracked pole. #glasto #yurtel

My recollection may not be perfect but I seem to remember the Labour Party of forty-odd years ago being anti-immigration viewing it as exploiting workers (here and those coming in) driving down wages.

Okay, I may not be an expert here, but I'm fairly sure psychopomps don't actually do the killing; they deal with what comes next. So people, stop blaming Paddington.

A glorious Harold Shand Day to all who partake.

I'd boycott Toby Carvery, but I'm vegetarian.

Some content: location guide (a work in progress) for the BBC TV series The View From Daniel Pike commandlinegamer.org/danielpike.h...

Chess Masters: Endgame. No.

Grim, grim, and more grim.

York, Monday. A better effort than the one I took of the Minster from Bootham which included the inevitable tour bus and local attrations stand. Maybe if I tried at 5 in the morning, I might get a clear shot.

Do go see "STIPE", the REM tribute band, if you're a fan. A talented bunch.

I hope someone's told the trampolines not to travel tomorrow.

It's that time of year again. People urgently wanting stuff fixed, but when you tell them it's ready, *crickets*.

In an otherwise serious article announcing a recall of certain bakery products today this typo: "McGhee’s which are infamous for making bread, rolls and pastries say there has been a packaging error on its six pack of Scottish Brown Rolls." news.stv.tv/scotland/do-... No doubt a correction imminent.

No spoilers but Count Orlok and Nihilanth (Half-Life) clearly separated at birth.

"You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

I suppose I ought to post something.