Summer weather and still off work so had a long riverside walk in the morning (not pictured), lunch at Smoking Goat (citrussy sardines, superb fried chicken, sweetcorn som tam) and saw the Emily Kam Kngwarray show at Tate Modern (great). Might try and buy some trousers now

back from hols

Reading Pynchon's Bleeding Edge while waiting for the new one, and I know it's not highly rated but still enjoying it. For instance a reference to an overheard snippet of Christopher Walken on the tv, recognisable by a 'graceful derangement of emphasis'

Gone up here

Der ButterEiger, oder das Butterhorn vielleicht

Not forensically I guess

Cat and the Jungfrau

No prizes for guessing where the path went

Morning

At least at the end of The Vanishing he didn't have to go to work anymore

waiting for a cow parade

Rivendell, by Dutch artist/illustrator Cor Blok, and Mürren, in Switzerland, yesterday

Good night, sweet prince

Had a dream that superman got into nonleague football and groundhopping but the other nerds got the hump that he was flying to all the matches while they were schlepping about in cars, buses and trains.

RIP William Cowper you would have hated the 21st century

conker

If you're in the UK and your phone sounds a strident alarm this Sunday 7 at 3pm, don't panic. This is just the alert from Penguin Random House signalling one month till the publication of the new Pynchon novel

September. If petrichor was a month

If the first of the month falls on a Monday it should be a bank holiday

Just performatively won a quiz by knowing about The Bell Jar

Would performatively tote this tote

waiting for an electrician who was here on Monday but couldn't do what he was meant to do then. he was half an hour late today, dropped off some tools, said he had to go home for something and would be back in 15. That was 40 minutes ago. Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

From Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice. Me, I go away in September

Small ads from The World's Fair, the UK's newspaper to the travelling fairground industry. These are from the period 1906-1917, but the paper is still in print. via the British Newspaper Archive

Utterly pointless distraction: identify novels where the opening three words are a valid What3Words location For extra points, find the novel where the What3Words location is closest to the author's place of birth

Hooray for us! And thanks to @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social for another fun quiz

This was a riot at first. I am thinking about quite where it ended up but I enjoyed it overall.

dim summer

The new premier league football

aw cute BBC News - EasyJet planes clip wings in Manchester Airport collision - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice little Oxfam find for a Sunday morning 📚💙

Who wants to play historical blankety-blank? From the Music Hall & Theatre Review, 27 December 1907. Give me your one best guess

Guy Montgomery's Spelling Bee is funny, silly stuff (full episodes up on youtube)

Twenty years ago today I'd have been having a cup of tea and wondering why I'd travelled up to Birmingham to watch what might be five minutes of cricket on day 4 of the second Ashes test

Glory be to God for dappled things

curious about this niche and I expect long lost piece of cinema.

Funny lot have a place to see ducks in London? (3,4)

Pope reviewed that dismissal like a guilty dog standing in the mess of a ripped up sofa

First game of the season, Fisher v Camberley Town in the FA cup

1 follow = a free subscription to all of my cruddy opinions

Gone a bit teary at all the headbands on show at the Oval in memory of Graham Thorpe

How do you manage in countries where the words for meal and deal don't rhyme?

have some sort of work sports event tomorrow

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Apologies to Ross for ending this little bit of fun within about 10 seconds 🕵️

If chorizo was any good people wouldn't have got so angry when Jamie Oliver put it in paella

And in the more artistic categories, nobody dared take on the might of this marvellous carved vegetable whale. They were quite right not to.