While on a train today it occurred to me that if See it! Say it! Sorted! actually was sorted, it would become Say it! See it! Sorted!

This was happening 10 years ago when I was in Vienna. Why can’t we be more like Vienn?

With the tube strike, it would probably have been easier to work from home this week. But I have a 60+ Oyster card, and I'm bloody well going to use it, even if I do have to get an extra bus to my nearest Overground station!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... But is it good enough for Jehovah?

The BBC is doing a live blog on the Zelinskyy summit at The White House, and are currently doing all the European leaders arriving. Whenever they do one of this leader-by-leader arrivals blogs I'm always reminded of 'Late arrivals at the Ball' from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Genius!

Since the new neighbours moved in, I've noticed the number of ducks in the local park has diminished. I think they're quack dealers.

In What3Words, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity takes you to about 60km NNW of Auckland. You might have thought they'd have hard-coded that to the centre of Paris.

On the workbench at the moment. A brass kit for a Midland Railway D418 milk van in 4mm scale EM gauge. The kit is from 51L.

Really, Wordle? Wordle 1,493 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

When Macron was giving his banquet speech and started on the Bayeux Tapestry, I was hoping he was going to mention the penises. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Not bad! Wordle 1,479 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Screenshot from today's guardian. Left: Gaza, Right: Kyiv. Basically the same picture yet we only have an arms embargo against Russia.

When browsing the Internet on a train, is there a name for the ability to predict the exact moment you’ll enter a tunnel or lose signal to press refresh or click on a link and be left with a blank screen for the next 5 minutes?

Just as well the current series of Have I Got News For You finished last week. Not a lot to laugh at in this week's news.

Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, Val Kilmer, Gene Hackman, Michelle Trachtenberg, David Lynch, Marianne Faithfull… @God - get your sights fixed, your aim’s a bit off!

I watched Conclave early this year, and then that happened. I watched Civil Way early this year, and then... It's probably best all round if I don't watch Planet of the Apes again this year.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... "While there are no penalties for violations, the bill calls for further investigation and documentation." Isn't this exactly the sort of wastefulness that DOGE was supposed to be stopping?

Zelenskyy's allies even include antelopes 🤣 www.reuters.com/business/env...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Well, it's better that it features erotic etching rather than erotic itching.

‪For some reason... @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social‬

Damn you, James Comey, now my PIN’s all over the Internet!

Is it just me, or does Casey Means look like the sort of person who will one day be the subject of a Netflix drama documentary about a quack influencer who dishes out bad advice and a load of people end up getting ill?

A while ago Trump made a lot of noise about beating down Boeing to $4 billion for a 2 plane Air Force 1 contract. This bribe 747 that Trump says he’ll use as AF1 is supposedly worth $400 million. Where is the $1.6+ billion of upgrades to bring it to spec coming from? …

Is there a more lovely tree than a horse chestnut full of candle blossom?

@emgaugesociety.bsky.social Sunningdale… Ascot… Martins Heron… The excitement is building! #ExpoEM

Just for a moment on Wikipedia...

Hardle 🟦🟪 #1186 1/8 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 hardle.herokuapp.com Suppose I’ll have to find a new starting word now!

I wish there was some sort of international standard for political colours and names. As a Brit it’s confusing enough that in the US blue are the good guys and red are bad… But now we have to cheer that the Liberals won in Canada, but lost in Australia!

Putting ‘Rewatching Years and Years’ into Google… “offering a unique blend of comfort and reflection” Comfort? It’s bleedin’ scary!

On the workbench today - rectangular tank wagon (RCH1907 standard) from Slater’s. Next stop: the kitchen scales to fill the tank with some weight before gluing the top on.

Real life Conclave in 3..2..1… Real life Civil War in …

Queen meets Liz Truss: Queen dies. Pope meets J D Vance: Pope dies. I think there’s a pattern emerging here. Charles, cancel Trump’s state visit; right wing politicians are bad for you.

On the work bench today - a couple of GWR ‘MOGO’s to go with the one I already did. Pretty much shaking the box of the Ratio/Parkside kit without much in the way of embellishments. These are to tell part of the story of industry on the Oxford-Cambridge line (cars from Oxford, bricks from Stewartby,…

That’s Numberwang!

Sebastian Gorka: what a sanctimonious twat!

I discovered I’d got so many different sorts of adhesives in my workshop I needed some way to organise them. I chose the gluey-decimal classification system.

Spring Forwards, Fall Back... sometimes I think reality has taken a step sidesways.

Breaking news: The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has today introduced a new SI unit, the Hegseth, to describe levels of security cockups. Normally security breaches will be evaluated in milliHegseths with 1 Hegseth being reserved for monumental security fuck ups.

Recent events have led me to the conclusion that the cosmological theory that we are actually inhabitants of a computer simulation created by a higher being is the correct one. And moreover, that higher being is @aiannucci.bsky.social It’s the only rational explanation for the madness!

Those astronauts would have been back 2 months ago, except some clown had removed ‘Gulf of Mexico’ from their navigation computers and they couldn’t program their journey home.

Exactly five years ago this was the toilet paper aisle in my local big Sainsbury's.

Can someone in the business say With Trump increasing the Tariff on Canadian metals: Does the US have metal in reserve to cover any reduction in imports? If not, how quickly can US metal production be ramped up to cover any shortfall? Or will US manufacturers just have suck it up and pay more?

'Morning! What's the Eggs:Tesla Shares exchange rate for today?

After being mothballed since October while the builders were in to build our loft conversion, finally the modelling room is getting unwrapped and reorganised. Let the modelling begin!

For those of you who enjoy this sort of thing... Tesla has now lost every gain it's made from the general election.

Now that the US is apparently being stroppy about sharing intelligence data with Ukraine, should the 'five eyes' western intelligence network be renamed... Speccy Four Eyes?

Virgin Media’s gone off, and DownDetector indicates outages across the country, and for BT too. If this turns out to be a cyberattack on the UK’s communication networks (and the timing is suspicious), I no longer know whether to point the finger at Russia or the US.

So far the best thing about Zelenskyy visiting Downing Street is that Starmer being civil has eclipsed Trump being rude.

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/t... Surely Trump couldn't have been lying to make his version of a 'peace agreement' sound more acceptable to Europe?