Yes. I thought Harriet may be you (and vice versa!)

Let’s hope it arrives more quickly than the last edition. Monday instead of Wednesday. One day before the first correct solution to the crossword etc…

Number 13 looks worse.

By the time it was on, we’d seen the bus blow up half a dozen times on the trailers shown in the weeks before. Really pleased they didn’t do spoilers on the chandelier episode.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

International Space Station passing over North East England 12 May 2025 just after 22:00

ISS passing over North East England tonight

ISS pass over North East England 11 May 2025

North East England. Excellent pass tonight

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal in the April sun

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal yesterday

Penknife Magic Tutorial!🤫

Paper Lace: Billy Don’t Be A Hero

And to you

Serious Fraud Office continues investigation into Hartlepool steel company owner Plus: This week at TVCA + where's Ben?

Today's Teesside Lead...

I look into the Serious Fraud Office's ongoing investigation into the owner of a Hartlepool steel company after the Greensill scandal.

Their Australian steelworks was forced into administration by the state government last week.

The cover of Liz Truss' book Ten Years To Save The West, which rather hilariously has to subtitle her name "former Prime Minister Of Great Britain"

A panto poster I've hastily photoshopped to include Liz Truss (captioned "former prime minister of Great Britain") next to David Griffin and Linda Regan From TV's Hi-De-Hi.

I'm a big fan of panto posters that have to explain why the stars are famous.

Billion Dollar Babies. Alice Cooper

It’s Sunday, so here’s some holey magic😇

A shared feeling for those in 🇬🇧 who do the NYT daily Connections game

Don’t blink 👁️

Feel like I’m trolling myself… Come and see me LIVE!

Let me explain how this doesn’t work…

Didn't expect the defining image of 2025 to turn up quite so quickly.

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

Nice morning by the coast. Bright and fresh.

Grandson’s socks look like Donald Trump

The questions people having been asking ⬇️

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To Be Pacific Why do you always go off on a tandem, say goodbye without further adieu? It’s time you climbed down from your pedal stool – this is not a phrase you’re going through,   when antidotal evidence suggests you’ve been three-wheeling right from the start. Or rather, from the gecko, as you might say. You’re always upsetting the apple tart.   I can’t be asked to correct you these days: it takes two to tangle, I won’t deny it. But when push comes to shovel and all’s set and done, I just want a little piece of quiet,   to curl myself up in the feeble position so I can give my poor ears some rest bite from these sayings which do not pass mustard, the flaws in the ointment you cite.   You’re no escape goat or social leopard; I don’t regard you as a hapless case. But be aware there are reaper cushions when you cut off your nose despite your face.   Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘To Be Pacific’.

Mixed messages. We’re investing, but maybe not in this one.

#sgtpepper2024

Greggs Wallace ponders if he is out of touch, but decides it's middle class women if a certain age who are wrong

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