When I become PM all railway stations will have to have a pub and everyone has to keep at least one (1) decent bitter and keep it *well*.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent The library at Chatsworth 🤩 I've always fancied a library and a chapel in my own home: this would just about do as a library! I think I've grown out of these ambitions, however!

@sheena-mck.bsky.social hope you keep safe today with the storm. Thinking about you.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Keir Starmer is our main hope for the country in the near future but in his excitable speech today I can't help thinking he sounds like a cross between the late racing commentator Peter O'Sullevan and a dalek.

Incredible sky this evening!

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London’s South Bank this evening

Ladies and Gentlemen I'm rather moved and very sad to learn that Jay Wynne -- BBC Weatherman -- passed away back in June after a long illness. We need many more people with the gentleness and care that Jay represented, not fewer. Much love to his brother Matthew and his wider family 💙

Here’s a characteristically well sourced @siennarodgers.bsky.social feature on the founding of Corbyn’s new party www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJetBlack Preparing for paintball battle.

As important today as it has ever been. Guernica.

My new book of science cartoons is out soon. Preorder 'Physics for Cats' now at your local bookshop. Or come to @smallpressexpo.bsky.social on 13th and 14th September where I will be signing and doodling in copies. More details and other tour stops to come! @dandq.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

On cowardice in the face of true need.

What is the world coming to that we need rain warnings in the UK?!

A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford. "I heard no compassion in what you said...". "I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities". Do read. blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

In Kenilworth in Warwickshire, there is an independent bookshop called Kenilworth Books. They just got in touch with me to say they have 3 copies of my book and can order more. I'd love to support them. Perhaps we could even find homes for more than 3? Here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic Old John, Leicestershire

My Dad's neighbour has apples on his tree and isn't eating them. But I think they look like the ones the evil queen gave to Snow White, which has made me read the story of the Seven Dwarfs, which I think is a perfect allegory for modern day scammers! Beware! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_D...

“Just for fun, let’s give it to Obama again”

Email today, "Congratulations, your image 'City Lights' has been awarded the runner up position in our competition..." 🥳

I believe this is how the Civil War started.

How's your garden? Mine is parched but the crab apple tree is fully laden with fruit, its branches almost touching the ground. My wife hates the tree for the fruit it drops but I think it has done so well this summer that it looks entirely MAJESTIC.

"Cathedral" by Kevin Atherton 📷 by me. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass

When you're waiting in a queue and keep getting to no 2 in the queue but your mobile phone provider disconnects you because the call has taken too long to answer. Guess what time they're open 'til? It wasn't Leics County Council that cut off any of the calls, just my mobile provider: "timed out" 😡

⚠️ Extreme Fire Risk ⚠️ 🔥 After an exceptionally dry summer, and the hot weather this week, there's an increased fire risk in Charnwood Forest. 🪧 Signs are up across the Geopark reminding visitors not to light fires or barbecues. 🌳 Be smart and help protect the countryside 🦌

Wonderful punchline to the thoroughly depressing story about the planned protests around the country yesterday and today. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#dementia #carers #Leicestershire Definitely going along for a cuppa tomorrow with a bunch of other carers. I didn't make the meeting a week or two ago. www.supportforcarers.org/your-area/in...

Thought for the day from my mum... Mum: How long am I going to be ill [with Alzheimer's] for? Me: I don't know, to be honest. I'm doing this for the first time. Mum: Well, I'm doing it for the last time! #dementia

I wrote a book! And I absolutely promise you'll love it 🤩 Here it is: geni.us/ThePlaceImin ❤️

Let’s have a sing-song! #funny #music

😮 BBC News - Lucy Bronze: Lioness defender played entire Euro 2025 tournament with fractured tibia - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

A brand-new series of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown starts tonight, starring Bob Mortimer (which is probably all you need to know). Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 9pm on C4.

I just verified my age by asking for freephone 2151.

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” - Omar El Akkad

The head of Buttermere and the foot of Fleetwith Pike

I shall have to seek out more Pärt 💙 "In an age of distraction and crisis, Pärt’s work invites listeners into an intimate encounter with stillness. It is not escapism, but focused attention – music that opens the soul to something beyond itself."

Tree of the Day. Two angles

Irresistible...

A personal note (please read the short thread): When my mom, “Nene,” was diagnosed with dementia, she asked through tears, “Why me?” I didn’t have an answer—so I founded The Dementia League. 1/4

Where's the one place you'd expect to always be able to pay for car parking in cash? #nominativedeterminism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The man who sang through the childhoods of the 1960s and 70s. If life is all about love, we should definitely institute an #internationalbriancantday Remembering the man (a little late) who was born on 12 July 1933 💙

Never change, England

"We had come out week after week in this bitter summer weather, in the piercing cold and drenching rain of an English July..." (Suffrage activist, July 1927). Those were the days...

Lib Dems call for "cool hubs" during the heatwave. www.bbc.com/news/article... I usually head for the meat and dairy section in Sainsbury's which is never anything other than cold.

This is good news, reversing a brazenly partisan change by the previous government. Whatever the merits of First Past the Post for parliamentary elections, it is manifestly unsuitable for mayoral elections, where the winner really does take all.

Thoroughly enjoying the fact that Bluesky now has notifications that work. I think it should improve interaction beyond the strict timeline feed: I'll miss fewer thoughts.