That's what I was thinking. Makes a bit of a mockery of the normal decision-making process of "how long does the queue look and can I be bothered to join it?".

When no one in your family has a car or is connected to the internet your best chance of getting a decent birthday present is by offering siblings a personalised Park and Ride service.

It's probably 4 or 5 months since I've stopped for a Macky D's and ....something's changed. There were only 2 cars ahead of me in the Drive Thru but still I waited 20 minutes. Restaurant didn't look partic busy.

In every respect in my life I'm clearly behind the "how to go about ordering" times.

I've just finished The Line of Beauty (that I recorded months and months ago).
Young Dan Stevens so good in it. And a great cast including several soon-to-be-better-knowns.
Strap line should be #DamagedPeopleGonnaDamage

I just watched a Republican analyst give the perfect analogy for the Republican's dismal poll numbers. He said it's not like "let them eat cake" but more like "WATCH US EAT CAKE"🤨He hit the nail on the head.

It's health and safety not gone mad enough.

'Given the ongoing stability"... Well there is a pleasing phrase we don't hear too often these days.

Now that Kirsty's told us "there's more to it than that" we can be sure Erik's not calling her because he's found someone... permanent
#TheArchers

To be fair, as a drama it's probably not going to rock the world.... but still needs to be aired....

I do hope the subject of the next "everybody wins but the consumer" corporate exposé TV drama is the cozy relationship between insurance companies and their recommended tradespeople.
I mean, surely not *every* repair cost comes in at £3 less than my excess?

That would explain it....

I feel that today's Spelling Bee would benefit from my having a strong knowledge of the periodic table. Sadly....

And a very sneaky poke at #TheArchers early on...

Drama on 4 - Transcription - Transcription: Part One - BBC Sounds Katie Hims adapts Kate Atkinson's spy thriller set in MI5 and the BBC.

This one's in yer top tier of Sunday afternoon dramas. Very sharply written.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Buy, buy, buy.....Essendon's finest

Ne'er-Do-Wells: the campaign slogan of those Norfolk residents who want to discourage visitors from inundating their town in the summer.

When I think of this episode of Hannay now it brings to mind Andrew M-W, hunkering down up there in Sandringham.
Norfolk folk used to have their own way of - non-violently - drumming ne'er-do-wells out of town...

I do love an 18th or 19th Century memoir. This morning I've learnt about "wartime lint collecting" for wound wadding.

So there you have it. Maybe, one day, Mr T's verbal meanderings will no longer be astonishing.
Let's hope not...

"He disliked scenes of all kinds and however close on the brink of the tempest mood she might be, the slightest sign of distress from him would calm her in an instant".

A neat little example of family systems theory (from Ethel Smyth's memoir).

Context is probably useful here.... I just texted her to say I'd just harvested some garlic mustard leaves.... from my own garden....and was about to eat them.

A friend just sent me an email ending with "please don't die xx".

So there you have it.... all of our love languages are different.

A woman in green sweater with a checked shirt around her waist standing with a black dog in the middle of a bluebell wood.

Felt like a "walk along the Beane and thru a bluebell wood" kind of morning ... Fortunately a friend agreed

Nothing says "authoritarian regime" more than "let me report my neighbour/family member/nemesis" to ICE to get them out of my hair.

These "they wanted someone out of the way for their own selfish purposes" stories are coming in every week now, eh?

Tell you what, at this rate Instagram's gonna take over the world.
I put on a Jodie Comer film. 15 minutes later I glance at Instagram and it's showing me JC posts.
What a turnaround....particularly considering her name was never mentioned.
Recognised her voice, I guess, or the film dialogue.

I find it quite a pleasing thing.... respectful, but warm.

Search facility on here is really playing me up this evening. I'm searching for a phrase that I used myself recently and it's coming up with "no results".

Have a Sri Lankan friend who also always called my parents aunty and uncle...

Should have said... all of my aunts and uncles were in the west of Ireland. My cousins called my parents aunty and uncle their whole lives. So I guess I followed their lead...