So, looks like that was true after all. Utterly disgraceful (and classless). Shame on them all! I hope Spain utterly trounce them! That fine better be a ruddy hefty one! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I think I will hide in my flat all day tomorrow (and just speak to my English neighbour 'over the road'). I know at least one of my neighbours will be utterly unbearable! I don't mind a bit of ribbing but I just know it will be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much, especially whilst still fresh.

Bah! I'm going to have :checks label: a glass on non-Argentinian red to drown my footballing sorrows. School-night (as in work tomorrow) be damned!

Tournament's not over yet! Still got France to play for 3rd Place. More torture to come! Yay!

Viva Espana.

Well, much as I hate to say as I am NOT a fan of the national team but...Come on, Spain!

Well, at least it didn't go to penalties. Silver linings and all that :deep sad sigh: Didn't expect us to win but that first goal and then hanging on for so long made me hope. Should've known better.

Football is Extreme Pain.

Bound to happen. Most of my neighbours will be rather happy right now 😭

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPING BASTARDS!

'Tis the hope that kills you. Always. Used to it as a Chelsea supporter but it never gets any easier. It's not over yet but...

I couldn't loathe him more

And why him?

BIG. BAD. WORD.

:GULPS AGAIN:

Ruddy Heck! Gordon is obviously NOT a moron. ⚽

:gulps: :gulps again:

My considered and profound commentary on the first half is... ...I cannot get the song 'Gordon is a Moron' by Jilted John out of my head each time I hear his name. I have been all but ear-wormed 😢 You are welcome.

Come on, England! Great time for my Firestick to be playing silly baa-lambs so I missed the kick-off. Boo!

Not too bad! #WhenTaken #869 (15.07.2026) I scored 875/1000🏆 1️⃣📍291 km - 🗓️15 yrs - 🥈160/200 2️⃣📍4.4 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇193/200 3️⃣📍1.9K km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥈148/200 4️⃣📍756 m - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200 5️⃣📍24.5 km - 🗓️13 yrs - 🥇175/200 whentaken.com

Ooooh, get me 😁 Mind you, it wasn't that hard, tbh. Got a wee bit lucky with the 4th but knew it was within a certain area. www.maptap.gg July 15 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 100🎯 Final score: 997

I need to go back there! Loconundrum #122 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 ⬜⬜🟩 🚂 ⬜⬜🟩 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Hilly/Hairy/Heilan Coo on Skye #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind #CoosDay

So tempted to watch the semi-final tonight but am standing firm. For now. We will see how long this lasts ⚽

Oh, it's getting nippy out. I might have to close my windows! First time in a few days.

I had to listen to that twice as I could not believe what I was hearing. Where on earth do they find them? I knew Fox News was bad but had NO idea just how very bad it actually is. Is that normal?

Really, really lucky with the years on WhenTaken today (that saved me a bit)!

Could quite remember the year for #2 (so close though)! We can just forget about #3 😁 #WhenTaken #868 (14.07.2026) I scored 901/1000👑 1️⃣📍170 m - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200 2️⃣📍1.9 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200 3️⃣📍3.0K km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥈137/200 4️⃣📍863 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥈174/200 5️⃣📍281 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇191/200 whentaken.com

Last one let me down... www.maptap.gg July 14 96🔥 100🎯 98🎯 99🎯 86🎓 Final score: 947

Should've got that in 3! Loconundrum #121 ⬜⬜🟩 🚂🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜🟩 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜🟩 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Juvenile Continental Black-tailed Godwit & adult Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit on the Stour this afternoon. @linnetincley.bsky.social #essexbirds #suffolkbirds #L3

If you've been waiting to donate until things were the most urgent and dire that they've ever been, now would be an amazing time. *lolsob* gofund.me/49a4a2dbd

I take an unhealthy amount of photographs everyday but when you have ever changing sunsets as beautiful as tonight’s in Aberdeen I just couldn’t help taking another couple of hundred 🫣 🤭 😂 And everyone knows I do love a sunset 🥰 🌇 ❤️

Sun setting just to the North of Mt. Tamalpais last night. Taken from Emeryville, California. #sky #sunset #eck #eastcoastkin

The boss of the lake. My turn to feed Rob's rear-end obsession. #Photography #10MinutesFromHome #Birds #Swan #SwanDay #BirdOfTheDay #ButtShotts #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #WeekBForBehind #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland

Not a photo by me but a photo of me this time! Taken in Abisko, Sweden just over 10 years ago #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind

I can hear bagpipes again. I wonder if it is practice night close by or something? I have the windows open so can hear them quite clearly in the distance. Just I well I actually like the sound 😄

Im putting the 'hind' in behind on this one 😉 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind

Got VERY lucky with #2! And second-guessed myself with the year for #5 or I would've been spot on. #WhenTaken #867 I scored 856/1000🏆 1️⃣📍926 km - 🗓️12 yrs - 🥈151/200 2️⃣📍14.8 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇196/200 3️⃣📍2.4 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇193/200 4️⃣📍788 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥈171/200 5️⃣📍2.4K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈145/200 whentaken.com

Very annoyed with myself over the 3rd one. Didn't go up far enough. Grrrrr! www.maptap.gg July 13 96🏅 99🎯 86🎓 95🏅 100🎯 Final score: 952

Chose the wrong one at first! Loconundrum #120 ⬜🟩⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Finishing #WeekAForAbandoned with a photo from a fave Chicago photographer of mine Eric Holubow takes beautiful photos in abandoned places across the US 'Room With a View' (2008) ©️ Eric Holubow #AlphabetChallenge

Slate Quarry on Luing, Inner Hebrides, #Scotland, with some of the other Slate Islands on the horizon (not so visible on a phone screen!). #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbandoned #landscape #scape #photography #EastCoastKin

Kinsol Trestle, an old wooden railway trestle, now used for biking and hiking. #stunday #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbandoned #EastCoastKin #landscape #VancouverIsland #hiking #scape #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Attention Alphabetters! This is your reminder that Mon 13 Jul is the start of Week B and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Behind. So pics of anything taken from the behind. People, animals, whatever - as long as they are shown from the back. That’s it! Use the # below and have fun!

Looking for a good brand of oil pastel fixative spray (non aerosol preferred) to use on my old and (hopefully) new drawings to preserve them and also if i sell anything I'd like for them to be somewhat safe from damage in transit to their new person.

Quite chuffed with the last one and a lucky-ish guess the one before that! #WhenTaken #866 (12.07.2026) I scored 922/1000👑 1️⃣📍16.2 m - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200 2️⃣📍197 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇193/200 3️⃣📍2.3K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈146/200 4️⃣📍340 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇186/200 5️⃣📍281 m - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200 whentaken.com

Bah! Didn't go up enough for the last one! Couldn't see the group I was looking for on the map. www.maptap.gg July 12 100🎯 94🏅 100🎯 94🏅 71😂 Final score: 889

Loconundrum #119 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜🟨⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜🟨 🚂 🟩🟩🟩