Prince commemoration I can 💯 get behind.

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’.

That’s one of our main problems right there.

Top film for me. Loved it, knowing a bit about PTA and that it wasn't standard Tom Cruise fare and that he had taken a fee cut to be in it.

"Today, that childhood dream is finally coming true."

Boss start to a well-framed article.

Ooh! Had not considered Birmingham. Cardiff airport only helps me on the way back, and Bristol not at all.

(Besides the "urgh, airports" thing. It's possible here, though much longer and awkwarder.)

Awful to hear this. Awful to go through. Solidarity.

a man is sitting in a dark room talking to another man with the words how do i get from here to there Alt: GIF: a bearded white man (Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange) wearing pale clothing is sitting in a dark room talking to another man with the words how do i get from here to there

Brain hurting from looking at travel options to get from Cardiff to Galway for a conference this summer. Not that far apart geographically, yet it is harder than you might think (okay: harder than I thought) to find a route.

Press cutting Lancashire Telegraph, 20 April 2008: Shepherd's pie recipe rumpus. Subhead: Petrol bomb threat in tomato topping row. By ANDREW BELLARD A dispute over the contents of a shepherd's pie proved to be a recipe for brotherly disharmony. Blackburn magistrates heard that John Garvin thought that the pie his brother Michael made should have been topped with tomatoes but Michael disagreed. The upshot was that John, who was hit over the head with a shovel, reacted by threatening to petrol bomb his brother's flat. And he ended up spending a night in custody to allow tempers to cool. John Garvin, 47, of Montague Street, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in £100 to keep the peace for 12 months. Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the brothers lived in separate flats next to each other. On the day of the culinary dispute they had been drinking together since 7am. "The argument started because there were no tomatoes on the shepherds pie that Michael made for tea and John thought this was wrong," said Miss Allan. John called his brother an offensive name and then said he was going to petrol bomb his flat. "Michael was concerned by this threat because on a previous occasion John had started a fire in his own flat," said Miss Allan. Liz Parker, defending, said her client did not accept making a remark about petrol bombing his brother's flat. "He does say that his brother hit him over the head with a shovel and it is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing," she added. (The article has a pullout quote which says “It is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing” - LIZ PARKER in large letters) District Judge Peter Ward, who imposed the bind over, asked in court: "You can make shepherd's pie without tomatoes can't you?" But 'legal' opinion at Blackburn magistrates, where the issue became quite a talking point, was divided. A female defence solicitor said it should be made with lamb and topped with sliced tomatoes and that a pie made with b…

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Quite.

Book cover for Stanley Tucci's Taste. White top third, orange bottom third. Black and white photo of the author, a bald bespectacled man with slight facial hair, but cut off just below the nose and before the mouth.

Finishing up Stanley Tucci's memoir Taste: My Life Through Food. We gave it to my dad (a chef) for Christmas a few years ago. We were back home at Easter to see him in hospital, be there when he died, and lead a memorial service before flying back to the UK. I hope he enjoyed it.

What a tree means.

This kid was just a revelation to watch at the Olympics.

Time to reap those savings!

I hear that. It's like making a big pot of chili: without a freezer, you're needing to be okay with five nights of chili.

Ah, but if I make another sandwich tomorrow, and perhaps the day after that, it begins to pay off. Or if I make a sandwich for my partner and for my child and for my other child... in the micro-economy of my household, making sandwiches makes sense.

I guess I'm suggesting our neat divisions bw news, op-ed, feature, etc may not map on user experience and understanding. And maybe they never did.

Not a reason to ditch distinctions or fail to critique them. But categories are not necessarily widely shared nor salient. 3/3

Also a gap bw internal divisions of the work & public understandings. E.g. I used to work in radio esp a.m. current affairs. I knew what happened from 8:10-9 was different from "the news" at the top of the hour. But listeners wd talk about what they heard on "the news": an 8min invu I programmed. /2

Yeah, I see that. I know there is a lag between journalists' self-conception of their practice & what they/colleagues/"the industry" is currently doing.

Those (like me) who study it have a different take than those *in it* who are pressed & not necessarily rewarded for thinking critically abt it /1

You say above in the thread that they "no longer function as they once did". I'm curious as to whether you've always hated their place in newspapers or whether this has developed as the news ecosystem has expanded and changed. Have they outlived their purpose, for you, or were they always bad?

Spread the word and save the stories!

Spa cycles tourer leaning against a cafe table. Bright orange Ortlieb panniers on the rear. Bright sunshine.

Fifteen rural miles for work today, and the weather is a mixed bag. Loaded the panniers up with rain gear and headed out. Holy Communion and a pastoral visit. Bicycles are the best way to travel short distances and the health benefits are awesome. Also: the fuel tastes great. Cake!
#ClergyWhoCycle

This is good. The last line of the article is, strangely, great.

Meme of a man boldly standing up to share his opinion

I don't think it's ethical to build a majority government through floor crossings and I think democracy works better when we have minority governments with opposition MPs working together to best reflect the interests of Canadians who voted them in and scrutinizing legislation

Yup. Would rather political energy was spent on crafting legislation they could get buy-in and consensus on rather than enticing floor-crossers to "be safe".

Ha, me too. (Well, my plane was Vancouver to London.) Very impressed - a good-feeling movie even with all the bad stuff in it. I expect it was a wise choice for us to meet Mike Sardina at 20 yrs sober. He may not have seemed like such a champion if we got the full run of his story.

Good thread on focus group voter comments in south Wales, as we get ready for elections on 7 May.

I'm surprised not at the boost to Plaid but the muted boost to Green nationally, but it may just be me in the Cardiff South & Penarth bubble. Greens are pushing very hard here.

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