Things that need inventing: Dustpans which don't let stuff go underneath Vacuum packed coffee which opens New towels which behave like old towels.

This morning I learned about pronking (also known as stotting or proinging)

New law: All tinned food to be together in supermarkets arranged alphabetically.

There is an excessive amount of curling around.

Things that used to be better: Outlook Marks and Spencer's socks Bournville bars (shape, wrapping, taste) Silva compasses Stanley hand drills

@loukellett.bsky.social You around? I have a question. A bit like the salad question.

Having red and amber in a country's traffic light sequence is a sign of civilization.

Sitting in Terminal 5 wondering how the lightbulbs are changed. It turns actually no one really thought about it! www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/rshp-de...

When you buy a book. Read it. And then discover you have a copy. That.

I used to think HMRC were quite good. I don't any more. I also hate accountants, software vendors and anyone else in any way related to MTD and forcing me to buy software to pay tax. Does anyone have Dante's number, a second edition is due

Taps sign furiously.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Can you confirm this has reached the NW!?

@lakesstiles.bsky.social What's the first line of the Lord's Prayer

No, Met office, I am not "enjoying" the new app. I don't want entertainment from a weather forecast! Bah!!

Share a photo of a mountain you have taken

If you put water in your mouth and add a pill, the water falls out. The other way around seems to work, however.

Cantankerous declarations. - Boudicca is "bow d see her" - AD/BC not CE/BCE - Railway not train station. - Mediaeval - 2nd moment of area isn't moment of inertia

Peak seconds handbook shop vibes

The Viking office supply catalogue is strangely compelling reading.

Should I file for corporation tax in Welsh so I can use paper and don't have to fund some software company for the privilege of being allowed to pay tax?

@conecclesia.bsky.social Hi Cones!

The lowest point of Nepal is about 60m asl but over 400km from the sea . The river is therefore very flat.

Apparently my head nozzles are clogged

Discussing pronouncing r with @dfgillie.bsky.social

Toast is a good invention

Pushing a sledge down an icy/gritty path with hands on the sides. Trod on the string that had wrapped under it, stopping it dead so I landed on my face and slid along the icy and grit on my cheek!

I've found a practical use for graphene at last. Making very thin edges for dustpans...so that dust can actually be brushed into them.

@loukellett.bsky.social Do you know of good inns in Shropshire? Looking for suits of armour in the loo, oak beams, eccentric landlords nurturing boundary disputes with neighbouring saltworks, optional peacocks. That sort of thing.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social @loukellett.bsky.social 44 for me. www.linkedin.com/posts/alasda...

If I buy 584 pairs of socks, that should be sufficient.

Morning.

Apparently "marmalade de traffic" is not actually French for traffic jam

Tea drinkers. Leave little soggy parcels everywhere. Bah!

Put your hand up if you have a towel in the cubicle when showring

Purple pens are underated

Corporate Christmas at Specsavers!! First eye test since ~1983

@elluetravel.bsky.social eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-... I know of a similar thing on one OS map for the Isle of White

@bigdaveg.bsky.social #whereami Do I have this right? The yellow lines , railway line (and rain) are clues.

Bought first reading glasses. Downhill from here.

I've just been told I look like Jacob Rees Mogg by my wife. I'm not sure what to do.

I was killed by a foundation

@lakesstiles.bsky.social can we discuss fluvial vs pluvial processes please. Fluvial is from a flude and pluvial from plu, is that right?

Periodic PSA: DO NOT CUT OUT BITS OFF YOUR ROOF TIMBERS.

A pox on Dysons and all their Ilk

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Countrylife stil'n

Is the McCoys salt and vinegar crisp crisis local to here or global?

@lakesstiles.bsky.social A basic stile

I've slept in 82.9% of English Counties.

Reading the Viking catalogue on the loo. Cheap Henrys and giant pots of Nescafé