This piece really spoke to me. To juxtapose something so universal as preparations for a prom against the deadly reality of a modern war makes the whole story seem quite unbelievable. Sadly it's all too real. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/w...

Morning all. Of all the many, many photographs I’ve seen this remains one of my all time favourites, like a Caravaggio painting. What a frame. Photograph by Chris Steele Perkins, Blackpool 1972.

If you didn’t know that I live in the same part of Bury where Victoria Wood grew up, you could guess it from a sentence issued by a woman I’ve just been chatting to down the park. “I once saw down here, and I’ll never forget it because it was the day my friend had both thumbs off, two kingfishers.”

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

Yeah!!

Early stroll. A fly tries to fly into my eye. The sky wears a tattered shirt of cloud. Captain America guards a windowsill. Ghosts of a lolly-stick alphabet. The bloke who always crosses the road in the same place crosses the road.

The sun goes down behind the hill.

I couldn't quite replicate yesterday's Three Club success. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,841 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Early stroll. A fallen blue jigsaw piece. Trees reaching for the sky. A vapour trail heading to the moon. That green bin’s monumental shadow. A broken electric fan on a lawn.

Yes, I am rather pleased with myself. Three Club on a 4/1 chance. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,840 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Early stroll. Clouds crowd the sky. The pleasure of chewing apple pips. A faint and fading rainbow. Someone whizzes by on a bike, trying to outcycle the weather. Birds swirl like tea leaves in a cup.

Never heard of the word. Never used the word. I'm none the wiser after looking up the word. My last guess was a case of trying every letter until one would fit. Still, a win's a win. Six Club. Did it stump you? Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,839 6/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

“House Of Flying Daggers: The Director’s Cut” Well that’s hardly surprising, is it? Accident waiting to happen, mate.

Nice try, Simon and Garfunkel, but I am paper.

My dog feels the same way.

Early stroll. That DIVERSION sign seems to point at a pigeon. Mist giftwraps the valley. A snail turns the pavement into The Slow Lane. An upside down chair in a skip. Puddles, holding the sky for later.

I don't think I know this word but it was the only thing I could think of after four guesses. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,838 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Grrr! Annoying guessing game. Five Club. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,837 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We have these buggers in Northampton and they've already started forming their own gangs! Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Interesting Views Of Northampton - A limited guide to the most interesting parts of this East Midlands town. Part two - The front of Aldi, Towcester Road, with accompanying e-scooter. Top parking!

Interesting Views Of Northampton - A limited guide to the most interesting parts of this East Midlands town. Part one - The parking sign in Farmfoods, St.James. Top signage!

A council meeting to debate scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed because the chamber was too hot. Sometimes reality has impeccable timing. Our latest - Henry Durand reports

City dog: “these country dogs are huge!”😂

#Poetry #BlueskyPoetry #WendyCope Differences of Opinion I: He Tells Her by Wendy Cope

I'm anti-violence. To a point.

When you take a nap so good that you wake up thinking you're late for school but it's Sunday and you're 59.

Wow. A star 93 million miles away, the parting of the clouds, the position of the flower. Life is all about being in the right place at the right time. It's quite the thought. 🤔

Not a bad way to start the Wordling Week. Three Club. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,836 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Triptych painting of Olympic diver VMD by Jenifer K Wofford (2024) at SFMOMA: Vicki Manalo Draves, the first Asian American gold medalist, at the London Olympics in 1948.

Keeping a consistent run of form. Four Club. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,835 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I care deeply about, like, 8 people in my life and somewhere between 400 and 600 dogs on the internet I've never met.

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

The Reader by fredericforest

Early stroll. Time has signed the sky’s portrait. Full skip as local history book. The man on the Public Footpath sign, endlessly walking nowhere. A parked car painted and decorated with bird poo. A double decker’s shadow moves across a bungalow.

I came very close to a third consecutive day in Three Club but just missed out. Happy with Four Club, though. It keeps going a decent run of form. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,834 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

One of the most frightening lines in this piece is "The sweltering night-time temperatures currently harming people’s sleep are about 100 times more likely today than in 2003." The speed at which the world is warming up is incredible. I've no time for climate-change denialists. Read the science!!

Fantastic achievement. I'm all for the ULEZ scheme, partly because my Blue Badge/vehicle emission rate allows for free car travel throughout the capital, though it's often quicker to walk!!

Early stroll. Epic clouds crowd the sky. That fallen brown leaf could have arrived in a Time Machine. I get the feeling that I may be walking through rain soon. A stuck sticker with a comedy fish on. Those curtains that have been closed for years are suddenly open.

Wonderful! The briefest of snippets piled together is life being lived and I'm here for it! ✍️

True story. There were originally 10 members of acapella supergroup The Flying Pickets but the Employment Act of 1980 limited their number to 6. Bloody Thatcher! Only you could think of denying us harmony. Only you!

My second day in Three Club. I am a lucky boy. All thanks to my two starter words. Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,833 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

me, when I’ve run out of teabags

Early stroll. A plant pot’s long shadow. I imagine car number plates set to music. The sky is a vast bowl of blue soup. I find a 10p piece near a Give Way sign. Someone has chalked HELLO on a bus shelter floor.

Good to see it getting another outing. 📻

Gulp! 😲 Good luck everyone. 😊🤞 Wordle 1,831 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.