Ooh, the 23rd of June looks like it might have got close to being A Quite Bad Day.

No, YouTube content producer majoring in Trump content, there is not a meltdown, health collapse, disaster, public stroke, passing out, crashing out, hiding, panic, cold reaction, catastrophe or humiliation. Stop shitposting and just ignore him. Stop inflating everything to epic proportions. Stop.

Now, shall I buy myself a ND-lots filter for the upcoming solar eclipse?

Today’s work location report: warm.

250 years ago England, Netherlands and France had enough and cut off the 13 colonies to leave them to go their own way.

Well, I didn’t know that it is “World UFO Day” today. I sort of suspect it’s mainly observed in the US, which is itself simultaneously concerning and unidentified.

I am currently pretty convinced that the USA doesn’t actually exist and it is really a cruel joke being perpetrated on the public by evil media corporations and Sacha Baron Cohen, filming for “The Dictator 3”

Listening this afternoon. Fish.

If the BBC wants to save money then it can drop coverage of tennis, cricket, all football, golf, rugby, boxing and athletics.

Bye bye BBC.

Churches are quite different from what I remember from my youth.

Today we have Flex FM running silent again. Best programme they’ve run in a while.

Guitar of the day.

@pcsunion.bsky.social any updates?

Well, any updates on this? If I don’t hear of anything by CoP on Friday then I assume it’s still a problem…

Collection of bus stop stickers from this morning…

Well, that was quite excellent.

0700 train, stinks of weed. 😟

Having done a bit of travelling around in the wilds of the SW of England I cannot help but notice the stark difference in the service levels and facilities between the SW and SE of England.

Sennen Cove, The Old Success.

I think that tomorrow I shall go out train spotting.

A little bit of Dave Kelly this evening.

This morning Amazon says that because I bought a replacement air filter element that I would probably like some tea. 🤷🏼‍♂️ If this is AI then I don’t really want it.

Good luck and good weather for anyone heading up to the Whitsun marches later this week.

Bluesky musicians: what is your favourite note?

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.” Yup, spot on.

This afternoon I rewatched Brazil and I must say it’s still probably the best and most prophetic film I have ever seen.

“Top Security Holiday Camps” “Luxury Without Fear” “Fun Without Suspicion” “Relax in a Panic Free Atmosphere”

Well. Stockwell. Indeed.

Adverts n Apple Maps! Get in the bin. This is likely to make me consider just given up entirely.

Starbucks coffee is the grimmest thing I’ve tried in quite a while.

Unpopular opinion for today: buskers should not be electric or loud.

England is filled to the brim with racist morons.

I have to say that the countryside in France is quite. Bit faster than the countryside in England.

Dear person on the train: no one wants to hear your idiotic voice and the idiotic things you are saying. These things are “inside voice” things if you really must think them.

Having listened to the evidence given and read the written testimony around the Mandelson vetting issues and I have to say I am firmly of the opinion that Starmer has to go along with his team and most of the current cabinet.

Today will be the first try with my #Surakav from #MGTrumpets with the cornet lead pipe and a couple of cornet mouthpieces.

New Cross is I very weird place these days. In the 80s it was rough as but now it’s rough as with a side of hipster coffee shop. I blame the university types. 🤫

Today is the start of the Hyperchromatic Music Festival (10-11 April) being held at Goldsmiths University. www.eventbrite.com/e/hyperchrom... Be there or be square.

UK local newspaper websites are awful; unreadable, slow, completely obscured by idiotic adverts and spam pops. Don’t go telling us the internet is killing local newspapers because you are doing it yourselves with the click bait idiotic “stories” and unusable websites. Stop it.

Ahh, thinking back to the day I rode on a train pulled by 67007. The lunch was very good too.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies Brief Encounter

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies HHGttG

#AlphabetChallenge Graffiti

This beastie is out to play today.

Elephant.

Everyone goes for the high power chargers at the EV station but my car charges at a maximum of 50 kW on DC so I go for the medium ones and rarely do I need to wait for one to be available. Meanwhile there is a huge screaming row going on at the Tesla chargers…

Yesterday my new trumpet arrived and this morning I played it for a bit. What a superb instrument, made by an artist in brass Mark Geelen at MGTrumpets.com. Some photos to follow later.

Where did US aircraft fly from for this morning’s little attack?

I don’t often have fried chicken but when I do, I really enjoy it. Nom!