A(nother Hot) Day Like Any Other

Oh that’s all right then

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Day 2. no sign of water

Ah, no. RIP tidal.com/track/777333...

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone

Which way, sweating man?

Which way, sweating man?

Which, tbf, was not wrong, and might have spared a lot of German suicides

If you were somehow asked to design the first ever public picture gallery, would you do as good a job as this? (No, no you wouldn’t)

Forgot to post … Peckham Rye Park looking totally tropical this morning

George Eliot, rejecting cookies *again*

We must imagine the Guardian’s Corrections editor happy

Yeah, but … pretty sure that’s not what Prince Hal had in mind

One day you will recognise my genius. When I am dead you will hear his pathetic screams coming from the attic where I locked him up in 1982

What about the 10 bands you’ve been thrown out of for being just too damn rock’n’roll, eh?

As the season turns and temperatures rise, the Lime bikes of Peckham Rye begin to gather for the great trek north

So today’s the day I switch sides - from catching the sun to hugging the shade

As the owner of a house whose seasonal mice have recently left for the summer, I’d have to say that’s fair

How long before he calls someone a dumby?

Some reassurance, of a sort if you like that sort of thing open.substack.com/pub/intheabs...

Being born, I guess

The personal reasons being that he is, personally, a racist knobhead

A whole new perspective on Virginia Woolf

A modest proposal for the improvement of Government: BAN MONTHLY ECONOMIC DATA!

I’m reading disturbing things about your musical tastes

“Hi, I’m calling from the Labour Party. Can I count on your vote to put me out of my misery?”

As it happens, I’m retired. My inbox isn’t busy. In fact this is the first human contact I’ve had in weeks. Who’s laughing now, eh?

I’m game, he said. So I shot him, with a 12-bore

Long on so many revels

You know my inbox is busy, so you thought you’d put more spam in it?

Wondering this morning why BlueSky was so quiet, and realised I was on the ‘mutuals’ tab. And I’ve got to say, it was a delight

Manchesterism: same racism but with added stone roses

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🎶 Frogs, frogs! Frogs on the roof! 🎶

My rheumatism in any case is no more than a memory, it hurts me no more than my mother’s did, when it hurt her.

Agree. The "island of strangers" phrase was an arguable (and banal) point very badly phrased The "incalculable damage" (of recent immigration) line was inexcusable.

Damn. Was planning to get my root canals drilled just to *feel* something

Wanting either rain in teeth or none at all

Good morning, May going on November

Harsh but fair

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If Donald Trump played piano

Bored. What’s Starmer not done now?

“If”

Do this. If there’s one thing the absolute carnage in my family’s last few years has taught me, it’s that it will make your loved ones love you that little bit more

Wait! Where the fuck is Tom Jones?