Yes. I can see it.

Just listening to Road To Hell by Chris Rea. The bass and other guitar lines used to drive Flossie, my tuxedo cat in the late 80's/early 90's, totally lairy. She used to yowl and run in the kitchen.

I really hate it when people try to hit on you at the gym. So cheap and nasty. The stares happen a lot. Very uncomfortable.

Just went through to make a piece of toast. Came out with fried tomatoes, mushrooms, ham and an egg. Still no toast though.

Will Yvette Cooper confirm that wealthy Brits who decamped to Middle East tax havens to dodge their patriotic obligation to pay their taxes won't get free flights?

I saw The Secret Agent today. Not a particularly easy film, it builds very incrementally, and especially if you're old enough to have known refugees who were here by the late 1970's, it brings back how rotten and cruel those regimes were. I wish Mahmood, Fartage and others shared that sensibility.

I'm uncomfortable with this. The only Cambs Greens I've encountered were all bampots.

Cambridge Picturehouse had changed their website slightly since autumn. I bought an old lady's ticket instead of using a free, members' one. The bar assistants had untold, infinite patience when I asked why? And changed my ticket for me, plus showed me where I'd gone wrong on booking. Great cinema.

A proper, early morning cappuccino at Savino's café. If you closed your eyes while drinking it, you could have been in Turin or Trieste. I had a home made amore divino too. Whoops. They were at eye level, on the counter. I am now fortified and almost awake.

Lovely bright sunny morning driving into Cambridge at 9am, with streets that hadn't quite warmed up. The daffydowndillies were all in bloom at Cambridge Science Park, waving at you. So good to see, at last.

Never mind WW3. I've got my washing pegged out and my new pole holding the line up in't sunshine. Well pleased.

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Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

Yes, as always with (political/regime) change. Be careful what you wish for.

Evening.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

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Karl Turner. I think I might mute those words. Any value in what he says is diminished by his village yob presentation. So glad he's not my MP.

Ethel is in love with this recipe.

Is the salient question here how much more/longer he can strengthen the Labour Party by remaining GM mayor before returning to Westminster? Was it time for his return or not?

Mr Fartage might usefully scrutinise his own voters. How many, especially women, vote the same way as their spouse/partner? It would be easier to research who doesn't. I was once married to a tiny. He was a complete political nightmare.

"Stargazers are in for a cosmic treat this weekend weather permitting, as six planets appear together in the evening sky. They should all be visible in the same part of the sky shortly after sunset, creating what is often called a planetary parade." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yikes. We've only just got a decent MP. She was streets ahead of the other candidates eg at hustings.

Yes, this is fabulous.

Is there a word for the opposite of nominative determination? #MattGoodwin

OK. Back to the mundane. If I can find my specs, I'll get on the weighing scales.

Now there's a thing. Gerald Kaufman must have been turning in his grave recently. What on earth would he have said?

Labour are going to witter about it being a mid term result, aren't they?

That Gravity song from Frozen...was the Ukrainian entry in Eurovision in about 2012. Honest!

Morning. You can now move your Bluesky profile to EU servers under EU jurisdiction. Its the same front, but EUropean behind, where it matters. eurosky.tech

Reminds me of the time, in this constituency, when I was up a ladder when the Workers Revolutionary Party came canvassing. Him:'Can I talk to you about the share of the country?' Me: 'Not now. I'm up a ladder.' Him:'F*ck off then.'

In solidarity with our American friends I am holding my dog hostage with a three hour rant about how awesome I am during which he will be repeatedly commanded to sit and stand.

Look. People get divorced for all manner of reasons, and it's nobody else's business. However. When a politician is using the slogan: Family. Community. Country. It's perfectly reasonable to point out that they are recently divorced and live in the SE of England miles from Gorton and Denton.

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After watching Reforms campaign in Gorton and Denton I’m intrigued by the “scrapping renters’ rights” policy. Politics is about whose side you’re on and in Mcr, Reform are telling Labour voters often in awful/£££ rental conditions that they’re on their side. While nationally signalling the opposite

Lovely.

"Dear Diary, Had a lovely trip to The Maldives. Lots of sun bathing, drinking, sight-seeing, lounging on the beach and a few minutes pretending to be outraged that I couldn't go to the Chagos Islands"

I agree wholeheartedly.

Why is stew do much better when reheated on the second night? Very pleased with my endeavours. I used pork steaks but it reminded me of the braised beef I used to cook for my mother when I was i/c her care. Plenty of root vegetables, mushrooms and home made gravy. Yum.

Five women authors I've read at least 5 books by: Barbara Nadel Elif Shafak Enid Blyton Patricia Cornwell Delia Smith There may be others but some like Esther Kreitman don't have 5 books, or have them translated into in English.

Yes.

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What the country needs most at times like this is to hear from the bloviating oaf who partied during lockdown, lied his arse off to Parliament and screwed the country with the shittest possible Brexit deal.

👇 If you didn't see it the first time, give it a go. Why fly to Istanbul when you can welcome it into your parlour?

Because it was there again today, proof! Of the fab car!

Ethel appreciates this.

Very hard to choose this week.

Time to mute the A M-W words on here?!