Life in the shoe: After dinner Jabroni FTW. 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️

Dang they really got a category for everything

Life in the shoe: This boozy lemonade is a Gin Punch (variant). 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️ Today is the 185th anniversary of the first edition of Punch magazine. Refreshing!

A terrible thing has happened! The air conditioning in my car broke. 😭

womensaid.org.uk/get-involved... Worth sharing if people need to find help

Resources and help for anyone, and it will be mostly women, affected by the increased risk of domestic abuse associated with football www.nhs.uk/live-well/ge...

Oh no! Sam Neill.

Taurus: Why are you even reading this? You’re just going to do what you want anyway.

Life in the shoe: 2 shots of rye whiskey, half a shot of Earl Grey syrup, a dash each of aromatic and orange bitters and an orange zest twist. 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️ (I think this probably needed just 10ml of the syrup and a minute longer in the mixing glass, but even as it is, it's gooooood!)

In a TV miniseries, this would make them ‘suspects’.

Life in the shoe: Currently simmering earl grey tea with sugar to make a syrup for cocktailing purposes. 🍸🧚🏼

Did the football start? Guy next door seems to be yelling at something.

This shitlark deserves everything Count Binface can throw at him. 🤬

Life in the shoe: Currently 2 kidults in The Shoe, 21yo & 18yo. 18yo slept 90%of the day on the sofa*; 21yo emerged from his room once, to grab ice cream. I think this is the best way to deal with extreme heat. *she did come to the supermarket with me because shops have air conditioning.

Life in the shoe: Elderflower Mojito, as the heat starts to fade out of the day. 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️🧊 Fresh!

Life in the shoe: Been away for most of this week, so glad to be home and in this heat having a slightly lighter cocktail. This is a Margaret Duffy (why? no idea 🤷🏻‍♀️). It is mainly Swedish Punsch and only slightly cognac. 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️

This is the data I needed when I tweeted the thread below. It shows that my recollection about the heat of summers past in the UK (or London, at least, which is a reasonable proxy for my lifetime in the SE) was correct.

This is the data I needed when I tweeted the thread below. It shows that my recollection about the heat of summers past in the UK (or London, at least, which is a reasonable proxy for my lifetime in the SE) was correct.

3D is generally not great. But here are individual plots:

Why is AC so rare in much of Europe? Well, until recently it simply wasn't hot enough to need it. Here is the average number of days above 30C (86F) for major cities over time:

If a racist resigns in disgrace, And sparks an electoral race, And the rest step aside, Could the people decide On a man with a bin for a face?

"It's time for Binface to take the trash out"

Voting Binface, all day long.

On my way, Clacton.

Boggling at this. OMG!!

I have had some scary times on my own on public transport, but I can’t fathom how frightening this must be for her.

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... This advice is all very well, but children also exist in public spaces and there’s virtually no protection against strangers filming them and posting images wherever.

The feverish imagination of Allister Heath strikes again.

Taurus: Harness the clarity you’re feeling lately to probe deeply into the worst things you’ve ever done. Introspective self-loathing is the theme for you this week, Taurus. Really get in there.

Life in the shoe: Everything is cooler now, but this is still a warm summer evening, so here is a Californian Margarita. 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️

And now, as the evening cools, I am listening to this: open.spotify.com/album/5iUcoJ... and it’s really lovely. 🐋🎶

Should have searched a bit more - Found this. There are surely others. www.ae-supplies.co.uk

Well, if you want to spend a couple of hours in the dark with air conditioning, Toy Story 5 at the cinema isn’t the worst way to do it.

Is there a technology (yet) that would enable people to have awnings / gazebos etc that are generating solar power? I realise they’d generate a trickle compared with covering a car park, but turning all our home shading solutions into electricity generators too would be something.

Read a preview of this book and have added it to my ‘to buy’ list. I think it sounds right up my street. Anyone read it? #booksky

Y’see, this is inspirational commentary.

Life in the shoe: Obituario! 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

When a FT piece describes opposition to Net Zero as “clearly insane” tell me again why the markets are jittery about Ed Miliband as a possible chancellor? Who else is out there advocating that we all stew in our own juice!?

TIL there are sperm whales in the Mediterranean. (I think I had assumed it was too much of a paddling pool, compared to the oceans, to have room for them.)

One more time. Enjoy your swims but keep an eye.

I keep seeing comments along the lines of "we never used to complain about hot weather, just get on with it" and would like to remind people that we didn't have weather this hot 30+ years ago. Great blog here about how we're just not set up to cope with extreme heat earthbound.report/2026/06/03/b...

Hello EU 🇪🇺, please choose a liveable planet. Thx.

I’ve been thinking about the air conditioning ‘discourse’, and in particular the suggestion that Brits see its use as some kind of moral failing. And maybe that’s true for some, but I think there may be something more simple going on, which is that until very recently we really haven’t needed it.

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

“Is Henry mean, or is he just French?” I haven’t watched a nanosecond of this, but I really wish I had. It sounds delicious!

I left the rinsing water in the washing up bowl after washing up tonight and I seem to have created a mass extinction event among the local Buglife. Sorry.