Day off. Time for a luxuriant shower.
Just as I was enjoying a moment of peace after a weekend of solo parenting… a knock on the bathroom door.
Mrs B has forgotten that the window cleaner was coming and I had but seconds left before I ended up in my own George Formby song.
Posts by Jack Blackburn
I feel the word “unite” is here being subjected to a burden it cannot reasonably be expected to bear
Jesus wept.
I’m still very impressed
My two year-old just opened up The Gruffalo and said
“The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler!”
I thought he was a reading savant until he added
“Read by Imelda Staunton”
Tory MPs decline proposition of “summer of sex”
In my @thetimes.com diary this morning
Here’s some detail
Home was where the Bard was - location of Shakespeare’s London house had been found
Me in @thetimes
www.thetimes.com/article/862c...
Just saw Dracula’s Deliveroo
Is it Swalwell that Ends Well?
Two years ago today. Missed every day.
image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
Full article here:
Two former prime ministers move fast and break things
www.thetimes.com/article/1603...
The Queen’s advice to Liz Truss: “Take your time”
In my @thetimes.com Diary this morning
Look, this is a grey squirrel of a solecism and I hate it. The correct expression is ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS, implying front, bravado, brashness with nothing of substance within. The needful idiom here is ALL GONG AND NO DINNER. Something that promises much but delivers nothing.
Marco Rubio realising he has to move to Avignon and be the Antipope
Marco Rubio realising he has to move to Avignon and be the Antipope
Brits going to bed tonight
Nah. It’s just a cycle of sex and death. Sadly we’re on the wrong side of that.
Of course I’m joking. He’s lost whatever plot he had.
Bonne chance!
Twice
Excellent spelling and grammar though
Afraid it’s true
You may not like it, but this is what the language of a master deal maker who is totally on top of the situation looks like
You: Christ is risen
Political Twitter: Pressures rises on Pilate’s defence spending after corpse evades two soldiers
LinkedIn: Jesus has executed a rebound recovery and is looking at rebranding opportunities
I’ve just noticed that the label on my lactose-intolerance pills says that they’re vegan
Which seems a bit superfluous
Britain is broken, you say?
Well today I passed a man who was holding up traffic by riding a penny-farthing on an A-road.
He was dressed in a long coat, wore a deerstalker and was smoking a pipe.
We are so back.
Andrew Johnson would have if he could have. Amazed Clinton didn’t.