Belgian neighbours walking past as I enjoy my holiday read 👀

Hell, probably, is where.

Just met a friend of my dad's and he congratulated me on my Ryder Cup winning putt. Didn't have time to get a beard trim.

RTE Documentary On One used to be a diverse selection of interesting stories from the last 100 years in Ireland, well researched, lots of brilliant first-hand accounts. Now they've turned it into contemporary true crime 😞

It would appear I'm in Spain

*small voice*... St John opening a cafe at London Review Of Books is a bit on the nose tbh, and not on the nose to tail.

I love a pint at many times of day but I'm never not surprised by people at the airport horsing into pints at 8am. Not just groups or stag do's either, plenty of people on their own. Fear of flying?

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An album I'm enjoying a lot is Ocean Moon - Ways To The Deep Meadow.

One thing that happens on Bluesky but never happened on the other place is when you post a sarcastic thing which goes even mildly viral, you're guaranteed to have a few righteously angry people assuming you're being serious.

Summer 2025 in the UK, a time of unity and euphoria.

She loves her fiscal rules!

This article was really good. Lots of "wank" in the world of government user-centred design, lol.

Bought a donut as a little treat and the guy gave me a free extra one as they're closing, which is brilliant in a way, but now I will have two little treats.

Sorry but every time I watch golf and they take their hats off I think of Stewart Cink's terrifying hat head tan. I only need to look at it and I start laughing.

Ah this is lovely. Shane Lowry crying 🥹

Lovely comforting bowl of ramen at Monohon and they're playing Pat Metheny 🔥

Person on this suburban commuter type train has their shoes off and socks on the seat opposite and is of course on a call on speakerphone 🤷🏻‍♂️

Walking up that massive hill wasn't great but coming down the other side was a joy. Such are hills.

There's a brass band at the market today and I think it's meant to be a nice jolly thing but it sounds like music you'd hear while boarding a boat to the front.

Listen, it's not fair to make jokes like this.

Alan Parson's Project - Sirius such a cut above Bon Jovi or every other tune used at the Ryder Cup this year.

20k into this draft and I'm like... hmm, let's get a priest into this story!

Keegan Bradley looks like an evil minor character in a David Lynch film.

This Ryder Cup feels like WWE when Hulk Hogan would fight "The Iranian" or whatever.

I'll never sing that.

Sometimes feel like if users wanted to dig a hole the response in government digital would be to try and build an app that lets them ask questions about shovels.

Seeing London pubs doing Instagrams about "yes we have got Beamish stout now", British cosplay is out of control.

Nice Brit Card plan you got there, perhaps hooking it up to the awesome power of AI could make it even better?

Use an estate agent, says an estate agent, in this guide to buying or renting property.

My dad regularly sends texts that are this postcard.

Carson Daly presenting at the Ryder Cup opening ceremony. Wtf/I haven't heard that name in years.

what

Keep seeing people advertising seminars about AI that inadvertently make it sound like a terminal illness you must learn to accept, like Learning To Live With AI, or whatever.

Very rarely in an office these days but I still love the walk from Westminster through St James's Park into central London after finishing up.

Simon and Garfunkel or The Beach Boys. He was never a huge music fan but he just stopped liking music around 88 or 89. Can't really comprehend it. Have not seen him deliberately put on a piece of music since then.

'Passing Shower, Blackfriars' by John Bryce thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/members-pages/john-bryce.php

Daniel Day Lewis being lined up for this story.

Not really full on carb season yet but made cannelloni tonight nonetheless.

Sad that Arteta and Pep have become Benitez and Mourinho now, but on the plus side this makes Arne Slot Kevin Keegan.

What's the story with that Good Old Arsenal song? It's nearly but not quite as bad as the weird plastic Ed Sheeran attempt at a team anthem they do before the games.

Just got charged eight quid for a pint, not in a pub I intended to be in or regularly frequent, but still 😬

Cursed phrases from popular Guardian column, Dining Across The Divide.

listening to a radio 3 show playing film soundtracks, and i was enjoying one piece of music, relatively serene evening stuff, until whoever is presenting it decided they had to tell me 'and that was from the soundtrack to a film called hillbilly elegy'

Looks like he's really enjoying the game

So sad. Great DJ and a lovely person. A force for good in the world.

In a pub with a jukebox but no folding albums etc, just a terrifying box you type into. £1 gets you three songs but you have to choose them with no help. Panicking, I chose Regulate, Enter Sandman, then found it had Underworld Dark Train. The vibes are flying now.

Why does it call him Timothy Cardinal Dolan? It's not his military nickname.

I don't read loads of current poetry but this was a cut above.

Bit weird but fair enough.