Can someone explain how on earth it makes the most sense for the most visible part of politics on our daily life (I.e. the stuff done by The Council) to be a broken basket case that can't deliver anything because it's broke and relies on writing bidding documents for everything?

www.blogpreston.co.uk/2026/05/timi... The coincidences between Nottingham and my home town of Preston continue... Within 2 weeks of one another they'll be opening new walking & cycling bridges across their main rivers!

Where else was there to go this weekend, other than Attenborough Nature Reserve, opened by Sir David himself 60 years ago (30 April 1966)?

Not just flags, but jet washing the county hall car park and buying stuff the previous administration test and found was a waste of money, but happens to be made by a party donor....

youtu.be/FGt5JkCrjQ0?... Every time I have to cross a main road without a pedestrian crossing (so every time I head into the city!)

The view at the Formula 2 is somewhat less than ideal!

westbridgfordwire.com/nottingham-c... "Nottingham City Council [..] have an ambition to have disability friendly pavements in Nottingham. I know it’s controversial, but we would like the ability, and we’re going to try and get the powers, to stop pavement parking." 😎

Quality (/s) parking job that 🤯 Icing on the cake is the sign on the garage saying polite notice please do not park here (so driver can obstruct the entire footpath)

Are books running out of cover designs to use?

I wonder what changed that mean these things suddenly became value for money and suitable for our streets dispite proving themselves unsuitable the last time the council tried them a few years ago? www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

Wonder what the record is for "Funded by" logos added to plans for UK infrastructure? (And for bonus points, which combination of those logos results in the highest word count)?

TIL Nottingham was home to both "the first large shopping complex of its kind in Britain" (Victoria Centre)* and the first out of town supermarket (now Asda West Bridgford) * via @grindrod.bsky.social 's fascinating Monstrosities Mon Amour Podcast on the Vic Ctr open.spotify.com/episode/7A53...

Meanwhile, in Brussels...

Never thought a Nottingham City Centre Multistory would close before the doomed Arndale, but that's where we are! www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

so apparently the "exclusive broadband deals" you get for being an EE customer are to pay an ADDITIONAL £27.98 a month for the same service, or an ADDITIONAL £17.98 than a faster service? 🤔

« Post-Brexit health and safety laws have removed government powers to ban products thought to pose a health hazard without waiting for scientific evidence. Instead, the onus is on exporters and retailers to test goods and inform the OPSS if asbestos is found. » 🤦‍♂️

So that's how you get people to start spelling your countries name the way you want in English (dispite choosing letters which don't exist in English)... Pay millions of Euros to host F1 races 😂

If there's no member of staff in the driver seat, then the UK MD* should be personally liable and any points incurred go onto his licence. That would banish them from our streets forever! (Must be a company director, UK resident, and hold a full UK driving licence).

New statue incomign... leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

And there was me thinking Formula 1 was mearly a Formula E feeder series...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Unsurprising - the NMBS operated Lille ↔️ Antwerpen train is a quality example. Want to travel from Gent to Kortrijk? Use the NMBS/SNCB app. Want to travel *on the same train from* Gent to Lille? Oh, you've got register for and use the SNCB International app. 🤦‍♂️

It's not often you see plaques marking the beginning of a new era, it's more often you see them marking the passing of an old one (like this marking the end of steam which happened in Preston).

leftlion.co.uk/features/202... TIL - that's why there are so many King George V parks!

It feels very much like we are back in the BJ government era when it's everyone's fault but the PMs, until one day the dam breaks and the government start resigning on mass until he goes.

And people slag off British food for being beige. I don't think our, pre-Jamie Oliver, primary school meals could get anywhere close to being as depressingly bland & unidentifiable as this... Although the carrots wouldn't have been out of place!

The question is, do I listen to it tonight, or save it for the next time I venture into the Vic Centre?....

And now we have an opening date - 2nd June 2026 www.transportnottingham.com/waterside-br...

Finally found a road sign that's less intuitive than the "No Vehicles" (empty white circle with a red border) ones! The green sign is new and the riverside path it's pointing towards is now a Public Bridleway, but while most signs say that this one is blank for some reason!

Parlez-vous Englisch alsjeblieft? 😂

Ah yeah, the playlists that used to be there and work instantly getting replaced by absolute garbage that takes ages to generate... Where are the legit places you can buy MP3s (single tracks) ,from that aren't Amazon MP3 nowadays? My Winamp library is stuck in a 2012 timewarp!

This is one of the things I liked about the flag displays flown from civic buildings in Belgium - the reflection that people have and cherish multiple identities.

Thread on the Casual UK Reddit showing the difference between the cars of my youth vs today... Yes I know some of it is down to crumple zones not being the occupants, but still 🤯 www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/c...

Can't help but wonder if the quickest way to ensure all workers get a living wage is to give bil/millionaires tax breaks based on how far above the living wage all their staff (Inc independent contractors/external sub contractors who spend more than 50% of their time working for them etc) are paid?

www.cbc.ca/news/science... "JCM Power's solution was to invest the kwachas into community farming of African bird's eye chili peppers in and around the solar panels. These, in turn, are sold in U.S. dollars, largely to Nando's Peri-Peri" 😎 A cheeky Nandos helping to deliver green energy!

The 2017 inauguration weekend schedule on PBS America has proven to most prophetical line up ever... The White House President T*ump How to Start A Revolution Dick Cavett's Vietnam & 15 Years of Terror 😬

That's an interesting argument to make as the president of the only country to use nuclear weapons against a foreign power, and who as the commander-in-chief is in charge of his own countries nuclear weapons. Absofuckinglutly batshit from a despotic leader of despicable regime

@gazza-d.bsky.social a reason to have blinking bike lights 😂

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working" has got to be up there "that's one small step for man, ... and ... one ... Giant leap for mankind" and "Houston, We've had a problem" as a memorable line from space - it's certainly the most relatable! www.techradar.com/computing/so...

Oh, so we've finally got one of the Brexit benefits we were promised have we? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Paddington's favourite to become "citrus marmalade"

If Garmin want me to pay for Connect+ all they need to do is offer the ability to export all activities (and other data) to Google Drive/Dropbox/Hi drive/OneDrive (automatically, as they happen) and import activities (organised in folders/collections) from the same!

Please use the cycle path: a wry cartoon by @davewalker.bsky.social

Meanwhile in Nottingham The idea of Trent Basin was that it does not heavily accommodate cars, parking would be incorporated outside the homes themselves. Became Concerns over parking have been raised after it was redesigned to remove a planned car barn 🤦‍♂️ westbridgfordwire.com/plans-for-79...

Did the Turbostars used to have a payphone onboard?!

On no, a capital city featuring St George fighting a dragon, an international rail service, a fantastic local rail network, churches and traffic free public plazas. How scary (if you're a miserable old fart stuck in the past).

And the small bridge across the mouth of Trent Basin was lifted into place Yesterday

Is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor going to be one of their candidates? www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

A demonstration of how well the council is dealing with potholes... I reported a number of these in January, last weekend some of them were filled by a randomer! Naturally the council came round on Monday and marked *some* of the rest, then filled them Tuesday Wonder who's repairs will fail 1st?

Alt-text: "High Gas [petrol] Prices" Google's the conversion rate of the vpower (i.e. the most expensive) - £1.27 a litre 🤯 years since it was that cheap here! Our local petrol stations most expensive this week (i.e. diesel) is approx US$9.16/US Gallon!

Finally a weekend with some sunshine.