gonna be sporting and give tim a five minute head start

Accidentally just knocked a lady over in Dominos Pizza. Well, I say one...

I had little luck this morning. Five Club. Better luck than yesterday, however, where I lost a 60+day winning streak. 😔 Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,791 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Isn't that a bit like replacing the leader of the band on The Titanic? www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

Click on the link in this post for more information on Witold Pilecki. A very courageous man who actually volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz in order to foment resistance and rebellion. An extraordinary life.

A little too close for comfort but the winning streak remains and now stands at 61 days. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,789 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Somnambulation. Wandering the towpath, always looking for the unusual, the care-worn, the 160 year old... Bosley - an icebreaker back when the canals were an important part of transportation in this country, when the canals had to be kept open...

I thought this word had already been used. Four Club. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,788 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

To all the Goths out there. This should make you smile, which in turn will make you unhappy, which in turn will make you smile, which...

Moose is always in good form and this thread simply proves it.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

That was more difficult than it should have been. Took me a good ten minutes to think of my final answer. Five Club. Grrr! 😡 Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,787 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had enormous help from my two regular starter words. Four Club. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,786 4/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My sister-in-law is off to Albania for a short break in a few days. One of my nieces is going with friends later on in the year for a hen do. I wasn't aware it was so popular. Has anyone been or known someone who has? 🤔✈️🇦🇱⛱️

A house full of relations and I'm laid up on my bed with my legs raised due to quite alarmingly low blood pressure. It will pass. An occasional side effect of some of my meds. I'm sad that I'm missing out but the sound of laughter and fun that is seeping through from below is a fine tonic. 😊

Dear, Whoever It Is I Buy Something From. When you post something through my letterbox please don't ask - How was your experience? - it's a delivery, not Alton Towers. I'm getting cheesed off being asked to be the HR department for every company I do business with.

Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper.

Today, I’m launching my signature pancake and waffle mix “Thank You For Your Attention To This Batter”.

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

Why did they call it Bluesky and not…

Owl Camouflage: the cryptic plumage that makes owls vanish against tree bark https://sinapti.ca/post/en/the-vanishing-owl-the-art-of-cryptic-camouflage-explained-su9tjg58

Boys playing on a hill above Oldham, 1982, photo by Don McPhee.

Newcastle upon Tyne, 1950, photo by Bert Hardy.

Girl on a Spacehopper, 1971, Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #Saturday

I shouldn't have gone with my third guess. I broke a basic rule of Wordle that would appear obvious if you could see it! 😂 Still, Four Club is acceptable even if it isn't noteworthy. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,785 4/6 ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A very successful afternoon and evening at Kerr Towers. 14 of the Clan gathered together for a Chinese takeaway 🥡🥡🥡 and much silliness and laughter. 😂😅😆

The Picture Of Dorian Gray is hanging in the White House.

Somnambulation. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of a narrow shallow leaky western spiral arm of the Grand Union Canal lies a largely un-regarded little Hobbit Hole of a boat...

@imcmillan.bsky.social a quick haiku for you #haiku

The Amazon rainforest is sometimes called the lungs of the world. It seems that the world is smoking 40 Capstan non-filter per day. 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬

Meanwhile, in other news. Iran and the United States have started shooting at each other again but apparently it's not a war. Are they using Nerf Guns? 🔫🤔

We never had council elections in Northampton. We had them last year and Reform took overall control. How's it going, you ask? Council taxes raised by max allowed by law (less 0.04% for the pedantic). Black bin bag collection to move from every 2 to every 3 weeks. But they fly lots of flags. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

Early stroll. The sky does its best to loom. Sun rising like a burning tomato. A pigeon’s sudden flight path. The house I was born in is unlit. A man carries a sheet of glass from a van into a house.

Who knew that the United Kingdom could be bought for £5 million? 🤔

Well, that's a new word on me. Apologies for the late post. I simply had no idea after the fourth guess and set it aside for an hour or two. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,784 5/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My second day in Five Club. 🙄 Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,783 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We spend an inordinate amount of time just waiting. I'm currently in the car park of a doctor's surgery for my mother-in-law who is waiting inside. Oh for a machine that could store this waited time for use at our leisure! Science fiction fantasy? I can wait.

Early stroll. A white feather beside a black gate. A new bench in an old garden. A lit-up empty house like a stage set. The moon’s art in the sky’s gallery. That car’s engine is noise plus VAT.

Could've been worse. Five Club. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,782 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

100 years ago today in the UK it was the first day of The General Strike. Its aims were ultimately unsuccessful but it had a profound effect on my life, despite not being born for another 41 years. My grandfather was a young Durham miner aged 17 in 1926. Although the miners held out for... 1/6

I said when Trump was re-elected that he would do everything within his powers to stay on for a 3rd term. I mentioned him staging a 'Reichstag Fire' moment or moments to declare a national state of emergency. I don't think that the Iran War is that moment, which is frightening. How far will he go?

“The funny thing is I don't even like chocolate. Or Phil Collins."

Amazing. This is what sand looks like under a microscope.

I didn't need my second regular starter word as my first one did all the work. Three Club. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,780 3/6 🟩⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Early stroll. Birthday cards on a windowsill as signifiers of passing time. A man in a bright room reads with a magnifying glass. A custard-yellow traffic cone. My soaked hat. Someone gets out of a car, sees me and grimaces as he points to the sky.

When I hear the word Gun I reach for my culture