Oh look, the Gulf of Mexico

Listening to Miles and the 2nd great quintet. Eating freshly made cake. A combination much to be devoured.

Every time I walk past the statue outside the library I say to myself, ‘Good morning Empress, and how are you today Prince Henry’

Matilda & Matilda, especially when the one (queen) was chasing the other (empress) past my front door on the Stockbridge Road on 14 September 1141 - an event much under-recognised in Winchester, imho

A point well made and most wisely, but it’s also worth pointing out that as a limerick this doesn’t work at all

Heh heh I just wasted exactly 2.00 minutes

In Myanmar the weights are elephants

The intrepid St Birinus, papal emissary from Genoa or thereabouts. His remains were ‘translated’ to Winchester, but the cult of St Swithun is still so strong that if you ask anyone in Winchester where is St B buried you’ll get a shrug of the shoulders, and ‘Who?’

Absolutely right. Whenever I hear Chris Mason on the radio I turn it off.

In shock news, it turns out that Brexit punched the UK economy in the face, much in the way that official forecasts in 2016 said it would punch the UK economy in the face, that were dismissed as nonsense by lying rightwing shills at the time.

Global warming caused by humans is an observed fact. Yes, science still needs to learn more, but it's no more in overall doubt than the theory of gravity. And it's bad. Willful ignorance, enforced by those who choose to deny science, is an existential threat to our civilization.

Jeez. Did Trump actually include Myanmar in his list - reeling following the huge earthquake which hit the country last Friday

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

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Honk honk

This chap is I think the only human figure still visible at Wolvesey, up on the first floor of the East Hall. He’s seen a thing or two in his time.

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Some people think the best Tube line is ‘Tube or Not-Tube’

British food sales to EU have fallen by almost a fifth since Brexit. The drop-off has meant a £3bn hit to food exports on average in the three years since the end of the Brexit transition period, new report finds I’m sure UK news shows will be all over this.. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

‘Other fixed costs’ £280m!