I would love to do something like this... Would probably be a sackable offence in the college library where I work. At the very least a disciplinary. Even suggesting this would probably get me a verbal warning.

A mate of mine's dad worked in advertising in the Golden Age (worked on the Smash Aliens campaign). The work hard play hard booze culture meant he was unfit to drive his company car most of the time, so my chum (still a teenager) had the use of it, plus company card to pay for petrol and fags.

British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.

Stupid tennis.

Wish the camera operators would stop lingering on Mr Punch's ugly and vulgar supporters. #Wimblers

Stupid football.

Pissing shit fuckery fuckflaps.

Bunty Cuck-Follocks

Yersssssssssssssssss!!!

Poo pants bum willy FART.

Yesss! Egypt!

Well done to Karolina Muchova. Nothing against Naomi Osaka, but the commentating team were favouring her so much that I was rooting for Muchova. #Wimbledon

Today, I laid a wreath in Hyde Park to honour the 52 innocent people killed on 7 July 2005. We honour those injured, the families who carry the loss, and the heroic emergency responders who ran towards danger that day. London remembers. You will never be forgotten.

Remembering this day 21 years ago.

Obviously it’s immensely satisfying to see pictures of Ronaldo crying, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that he’ll still be crying off camera in the dressing room and possibly in his hotel room and maybe even on the flight home

Steve Hoffstetter on the Belgian match...

*wake sup* *checks football scores* That'll do.

Get me, double-screening on a School Night. Worth it though, fantastic win for Arthur Fery at Wimblers (though I'd've been happy to see Dimitrov win).

Petty but fun seeing all those (largely) white US-Americans who are all "Yo Soy Mexicano" and forever wanging on about how they can't get decent tacos in the UK (maybe try ordering something else) all eating (bland, underseasoned) crow this morning.

Reading the comments on L'Équipe, which is normally very anti-Angleterre (for all sports) but it's all very Europe v The Americas at the moment.

Huh. So I guess Brown Cheese, and baked beans - and bland, beige food in general - had the last laugh.

*wakes up* *checks football scores* *faints*

Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

Dress code Lounge Suit by the looks of it, for the sporting legend invitees in the royal box at Wimblers today.

Dimitrov v Berrettini up next on Centre Court. #WellHellooo #SomethingForTheMums #Wimbledon

There are too many white boys in seemingly identical white outfits wearing white baseball caps at Wimblers; it's difficult for We Old Folk to tell who's who a lot of the time. The All England Club should relax their dress code to allow one player to wear a red hat or somesuch. #Wimbledon

I think I need to walk around ringing a bell while saying "Unclean! Unclean!" so fellow London Transport users can give me a wide berth; I swear whatever bus or tube I get always ends up being held for an age to Even Out The FECKING Gaps In The Service. #SomeOfUsHaveAppointmentsToGetTo

Why is this toddlers when they fall over and look to see if someone saw before crying

CESSEZ DE PUBLIER DES PHOTOS ON NE LES VOIT PAS ET C’EST FRUSTRANT 😭😭😭😭

About to go into a 1-2-1 meeting with my line manager because I exploded at her over the phone the other day so she wants to discuss "the events and interactions that took place" and "to review what happened and discuss expectations going forward". How's everyone else's morning?

My lunchtime Dosa was so big I couldn't get it all in shot.

Had a foul afternoon at work, so glad I was watching some relaxing tennis rather than The Other Thing.

And this is why we persist: 👇

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

Detecting sound of something edible being opened, rooms away.

Pissing arseflaps.

Wahey!!! Yes Japan!

I remember it being more on the radar here (the UK). Didn't we give the US a replica of Magna Carta engraved on glass or something? The Summer of '76 was the Drought, Bugsy Malone, Jaws, and the American bicentennial.

Two more working weeks to get through. And Madam is due back from sick leave today. 😖

Well I WAS having a nice sit down in the garden. Until the Next Doors decided to bring their screamy babies out.

Oh Scotland.

Me, when people use that annoying neologism to describe the smell of rain on hot pavements.

A Martini in London's Oldest Restaurant.

Was all right in the end, except I had a brain fart/sunstroke and got the wrong bus in the morning.

On the family WhatsApp this morning.

Very worried about two friends, and another good chum has messaged to say her beloved cat has terminal cancer. Bad news is relentless, isn't it. I'm so tired.

Very much enjoyed the facilitator pausing his presentation about why AI is brilliant to take a call announcing the heatwave has closed his son’s school. He didn’t at any point mention data centres’ power consumption. I did though.

Have to Go Out tomorrow as my cousin has booked us afternoon tea. Oh, and we west London dwellers are marooned again due to works on District and Prickawilly Lines. Am going to have to walk in the HOT, or take a HOT bus, to the Elizabeth Line which will probably have a reduced service due to HOT.

Thanks to all sending messages of support as me and my colleagues in Humanities and Social Sciences at Exeter face being made redundant in September. I'll be back here once it's less hot & I can think. Please consider signing & sharing this petition: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... #EarlyModern 🗃️

The tennis at Eastbourne suspended due to RAIN, lucky buggers.