Also really interesting that many British and Irish men aged 60-80 absolutely remember the Sunday Times Round the World singlehander yacht race. Enough to talk about it in the pub.

It's been really nice to recommend, earlier tonight, to older men, 'books about messing about in boats'. Well, and just talk about that thing. And let narrowboat drivers look down on Norfolk Broads yachts.

I've picked up books for others from a bookshop, book for me from a library, met some friends, bought an exciting new gin, now waiting for a kebab. And yet 15 minute cities are somehow a threat?

An article about the beer and pub scene in an area with rubbish public transport that doesn't mention drink driving. The only mention of public transport is a landlord's initiative to partner with other pubs along a bus route - and then only in the context of attracting tourists.

Welcome back!

They might not have done so much if they'd known quite how many landmark birthdays she still had to come ...

I know it seems cruel to pile onto the least funded and best value of local authority services (and I can absolutely imagine why the CMS isn't helpful) but there's literally this page: Stoke Newington Library | Hackney Council share.google/wsSPbiefv4tV...

Stoke Newington Library refurbishment — Love Hackney Stoke Newington Library is currently closed for refurbishment.

If you do four clicks, you get this page. Scroll down a LOT and you get some FAQs. If you click on the one about the 'local offer' you get the information about the pick-up point. It's like Jakob Nielsen never happened. www.lovehackney.uk/hackney-libr...

So it turns out there's a pickup point in the (also closed) adjacent town hall. There is no information about this on the main website but i was given this helpful link www.lovehackney.uk

The Sam Thielman writing advice is interesting. I was the same when I wrote, much preferred editing and improving to the first draft, but I see lots of writers on here who loathe that part of the process.

May wanted to get him out the country and presumably thought the infrastructure of the FO would make sure he didn't go astray. Hard for them though.

I've had a leaflet from the Indies, Ceren and Des!

More of this sort of thing!

Well worth a listen!

The London Suburbia account on Insta recently did a great post on it.

16 degrees and sunny in London. I have all the layers as going to the football and even the sun trap of the East stand is no match for my neshness.

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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Go to the London Review Bookshop!

They moved library management system a couple of years ago and the new one seems to have problems. If I was given the option to specify my pick-up library, I didn't see it. I may try logging into my account from a desktop.

I put a hold on a library book, part of the stock of a (temporarily) closed branch. Been told it's ready to collect ... from that branch. What makes it worse is that I'd never have paid for the hold if the library weren't shut.

We all know that the best way to get action from an email is to be completely clear what you're asking, preferably with a deadline. But when we do it outselves it's so tempting just to forward on the chain with 'Please action'.

Judging by what everyone's swapping out from the veg bag, it's going to be parsnip soup for dinner at the charity which takes the leftovers.

How are you going to open the door for them?

So glad you like it! X

Screenshot from an online quiz. Text reads: Explanation Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity from renewable sources, primarily wind and hydropower! This small South American nation underwent a remarkable energy transformation in under a decade, going from heavy fossil fuel dependence to becoming one of the world's greenest grids- all without government subsidies.

I can't help thinking Worldle's Thursday 30 is trying to make a point here.

Technology can make things different, but I wonder if the obsession with devices as the cause of bullying comes from people oblivious to the sophisticated cruelties (mostly) girls can inflict on each other from age 6 onwards.

I don't think he did, from what I've read.

It's given me flashbacks to my supervisor saying 'it's not enough to imply, you have to say it'. No letting the reader work it out in a PhD. Makes for repetitive and overemphatic reading.

Reading a book that was very obviously a phd thesis. My advice, if you change nothing else, throw out your original introduction and write a new one with the new readership in mind.

So I think it's very revealing about the insecurities of the middle class male. Not fun to watch though! Also .. Delphine Seyrig got her own back (for not being shown speaking) with Jean Dielman.