Would the #BBC like to report on a #riot?

My day job is with this fantastic charity, providing land for new allotments. Does your town or village need allotments? Weblink in comments.

I found some white blackboard chalks, battered them into a powder, added fairy liquid and water and painted it on my kitchen window. #BlancdeMeudon I have some garden lime and that ought to have done yet, naturally, I've left it elsewhere.

Ignore the effing #reflectingpool You know he's a liar and conman! He's diminishing your democracy, USA. You're all failing. All except the Republicans. By the time you get you're dreamed for midterms you may get a shock. Again.

Hot weather tip: Swoon.

Hot weather tip; the trains of ALL nations will suffer from buckling rails in the heat. The UK's summer temperatures, not being as high as our continental cousins, are stressed for slightly lower temperatures. Yet ALL nations railway services suffer from high temperatures. Rest easy.

The party of law and order - the Conservatives, has seemingly been a bit lax. Labour governments, through official non-political reports, have provided more prison capacity, generating nearly double the number of gross prison places and over 50 times the net capacity compared to the Conservatives.

If #Miliband as #Chancellor would spook the fossil fuel industry and business community surely that's a #good thing? #Serve the people, not the people with money! They've had their way for far too long. #Hashtag

Hot Weather tip: If you do visit your elderly neighbour to see if they're OK, make a lot of noise going there. A LOT of noise, otherwise you may glimpse something neither of you benefit from.

So, Farage appears as the second most read story on BBC News, yet it's 'below the fold, in my eyes, amongst the lesser stories. I reckon I'm ripe for a conspiracy theory or two. Seems like it ought to get a lot more attention though, this Farage bung business.

Hot weather tip: don't forget insects need water too. Put out a shallow container with stones and water and you'll see them visit. It's mostly honey bees I see, yet other drink too, not all get it from food/nectar.

After years and years I have changed my daily weather viewing from the BBC website to the Met Office, as the BBC seem to add on an extra 5 degrees in their 'feels like' section. WHy? They may use a mixture of MeteoGroup and the Met Offce as they change over, yet I find myself unsatisfied. End msg.

Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business' Sadly for him, he doesn't get to make the rules. He owns a political party. Of course the £5m was political. Ideally, he'd be found guilty, put in prison and denied seeking office ever again. A recall election might see him back.

Hot weather tip: offer your friendly delivery driver a cool drink, maybe a bottle or can of something (non alcoholic).

#vegetables 80% of my onions have bolted.

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Could two eight year olds in a raincoat be the next #PM? Also, what became of Johnson's expensive wallpaper?

With all this talk of #primeminister and the #usualsuspects calling for things they'd never do in #ukpolitics my biggest regret is the entire #packet of maize-based cheeseburger balls I've just consumed. Ha a healthy lunch up til then. #healthylunch

James Lyons, ex-No 10 Coms Chief tries to avoid responsibility for the woeful communications effort leading to #Starmer going.

The thing I'll miss most about #Starmer is the two tier policing that he never even did.

Any chance this could by Etainia decentella ? On a Sycamore samara in Sainsbury’s car park, Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield. @vc28nature.bsky.social @ecorecord.bsky.social #teammoth

Birmingham rejects racists Say no to fascist Britain First

A few weeks ago I discovered a nesting colony of the rare long-horned bee on a site in Lewisham - a first for London. Happy to say they are doing well with 9+ new nests appearing this week, with both males and females feasting on meadow fetching. Beautiful to see 💚

I possessed an S reg Chipper bicycle back in 1976. I put the registration plate (cardboard) on myself.

If the #bbc gets their weather info from #themetoffice then why does one say it will feel like 37 c in my area for next Tuesday and the other say 32?

Reform plc share price must be plummeting, surely?

Friends of Sparkhill Park, Roam Project and The Springfield Project are running free nature sessions for young children (2-5 years, all welcome) in #Sparkhill Park. Fridays 19th, 26th June and 3rd July, 9.30-11am near the Park Rd Nursery end. Just turn up! #Birmingham

Poland’s Deputy minister PM Radek Sikorsky explaining what has galvanized the Polish public to spend more on their defense and laying out why the UK should be equally concerned, with the list of criminal acts Putin has committed against the UK- youtu.be/UuLdHr7evHc?...

In #Curb I enjoy the times Larry and Susie Greene get along.

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World Cup Miserable Musings - England lose tonight. Kicked out in the first round. The ravens flee the Tower, Kingdom falls. Konsa plays well though, yet Villa sell him.

Trump claims you can walk straight across the border from Qatar to Iran. Ignoring the Persian Gulf. So, RFK lies, no surprise: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Still difficult to believe this man was elected as Prime Minister youtu.be/0UYrLfxvfhM

So, we've an ex-defence minister complaining Starmer doesn't fund the MOD enough whilst saying there's massive waste and reckless spending at the same MOD.

Avondvierdaagse!

I found myself Unter den Linden today. I walked down the actual one last century. I only write this here to remind myself later.

I watched a short video of Mick Jagger dancing and I've decided that's a visual representation of toxic masculinity.

I've got the moves like Jagger *dances appallingly bad*

One of the problems with British politics is that Hunt and Osborne (two of the most destructive Chancellors of modern times) are still invited to give their opinions on matters of economics.

Rewatching Curb and it's so obviously very often someone else's fault with Larry's problems. He doesn't help himself yet... who wants to shake someone's snotty hand, Ben Stiller! It's fictional, yet I get so immersed.

Avondvierdaags!

As I get older, and more stupid, I realise I'm having 'hot takes' which are not as great as I used to have. If I think about them a bit more I get there eventually. Yet the knee jerk ones are sometimes 'a bit off', to my mind, even as I think them. I think the UK needs Avondvierdaagse!

I have ate.

gone almost 9 hours since eating!

Reform UK wants to steal your rights - here's how workers are fighting back