Morning Bluesky peeps 😎 Anyone flown from Limoges airport since the EES malarkey was introduced? Wondering if it's smooth there or if extra time is needed 🤔 Merci in advance 🙏

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

41° forecast chez nous today. Please don't call in, I'll be quietly melting in my underwear & will be unable to answer the door 🥵. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Bon courage to everyone with similar heat, drink lots of water & stay safe!

Borrowed from FB, made me laugh. Rough translation - stop calling in on people when it's 35°. We can't open the door, we're in our pants. A bit of respect! 😂😂😂

This morning's view 😎

Wanna see happy? THIS is happy

Get your doggy poo bags here 💩😂💩

Bordeaux weather alert - 35° today but not quite canicule weather, my coconut oil hasn't melted yet, it's still solid (ish). I suspect it will happen later in the week....

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

The annual photo of our albizia 🌴😍

I love it when people say they are going to vote Reform because its "time for a change" or "to let someone else have a go". Which is like saying "I tried putting this fire out with water and it hasn't worked yet, so I'm going to try petrol instead".

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

23 years ago today we rocked up to start our new life in La Belle France. Armed with a car full to the brim, a 4 year old & a baby still cooking in my tummy. It was nearly 40° all summer. We didn't know anyone & started from scratch - we're still here 😎😊 #NoRegrets

The Talking France podcast currently has enough listeners to fill Paris' Opéra Garnier almost twice over . . . *but* if every listener just told 22 of their closest friends/relatives about us, we'd have enough to fill the Stade de France! www.thelocal.fr/podcasts/tal...

Crap photo alert soz (my phone camera is pants) but meet Eddie Lizard, who has taken up root chez nous. Happily posing for a pic 🦎😍

It's OK everyone - no need to feel pure cold rage at this one. www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

Morons outside Southampton police station expressing 'pure cold rage'. Can't imagine what gave them that idea.

"Hands up if you started a riot by cynically exploiting a tragedy to spread division and incite hatred"

I may have had a glass of rosé at lunchtime today (Fête des Mères innit). I may also have had a 2 hour "nap" this afternoon & now feel totally out of it. Day drinking is not my point fort 🥱

Massive panic yesterday when we realised we hadn't done our impôts declaration (deadline today 😮!). No time yesterday, it's 37° - cauchemar! All done this afternoon & son has done his own for the first time - phew! And breathe... (except there's no air to breathe 🥵!)

In today's episode of Couldn't Make It Up, a bloke had to be rescued by the pompiers from a clothes collection bin. Just his feet sticking out. A normal day in the Médoc, n'est ce pas @englishmaninbx.bsky.social ?!

I do remember. It was 2 months ago.

We're invited for dîner with (French) friends this evening - "vers 20h" they say, gawd. They're never ready on time so apéro will be 20h30 (we'll no doubt serve ourselves) & we won't eat before 22h 😭! I feel a snack (& a siesta) coming on before we go 🤔

Well it's that time of year when I end up with Monica hair 🥵! "It's the humidity"! I have to go out in public & meet people FGS 😮!

If you are in France, beware of iffy emails pretending to be from the assurance maladie with a fiche de référence. Don't click on the links.

3 words - Clacton on Sea 🤔🤷‍♀️

I may have watched that more than once - love it 😂

Immigration make Britain brilliant

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Here's the new podcast! 🇫🇷 The €16m French château scam and the Brit arrested in Spain (plus, why does France so many châteaux?) 🇫🇷 Rent control may end in French cities 🇫🇷 How to say 'sorry' And . . . Is Emmanuel Macron forming a band with the president and prime minister of Armenia?

Jack Dart is director of reformwatch.org and this is one of the best local election commentaries I've seen.

Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Tice can't find it in him to condemn someone for saying that Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes.

Just as an FYI: Reform stood known extreme racists, Neo Nazis, men who applauded rape, vicious domestic abusers and Holocaust deniers in the local elections, many won. This is what we mean when we say that they rely on people’s ignorance. All it takes is a fucking Google.

Note to journalists: thank you for treating me as though I have just become Prime Minister, but if you dare to ask me about the £5 million I got from a crypto billionaire I will shut you down like the petulant little shit I am.

One thing about Reform winning massively at local government level, is they get ample opportunity to screw things up before another General Election

I’m just glad I only accepted £5 million rather than a pair of glasses, otherwise the media would have given me Hell.

@lbc.co.uk Can you tell your presenter Clare Foges that there was a Muslim guy stabbed, so it cannot be an antesemitist act.

PSA! Verdict is in on our new Fresh (like Grand Frais) supermarket - rather fabulous! Shelves & fridges full (late Sat pm too), lots of local produce 😋. @stutheeditor.bsky.social - maybe you need to try a different one. Could be dangerous for the bank balance 😬

Hey @theguardian.com, what was the religion of the third stabbed man?

‘You see this bee here…it’s just tried to assassinate me!’

Being British or settled doesn’t mean your spouse can live with you 🇬🇧 Earn under £29k? No visa. Can’t save £88,500? No visa. Have kids together? Doesn’t matter. 🚨 We're launching this campaign today—help us tell the gov to stop profiting from tearing families apart reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/sign

Interesting to note the different reactions on the dais the moment gunshots were heard at the WHCA Dinner:

Fixed it...

They really do! Not the same eating them out of a packet 🤷‍♀️

Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.