Lots of emergency vehicles on A12 in Suffolk this morning heading in the direction of Dunwich. 😢
Very sorry to hear of the death of Franco Baresi. He was a genuine great and played in the best back four I’ve ever seen with Maldini, Costacurta and Tassotti.
Spain used to be the sleeping giants of world football. Since breaking their duck at the Euros in 2008, they’ve now won 5 of the last 10 tournaments. I wouldn’t bet against them at the next Euros.
Brilliant modern portrait exhibition at Scottish NPG: delighted to find the great @damedenisemina.bsky.social alongside other cultural luminaries.
The pace of every Velázquez has slowed recently. So I was very pleased to tick another one off at the National Gallery Scotland. Wonderful also to see The Skating Minister.
Lovely day in Northumbria including a pint in Bamburgh and a trip to Howick Hall gardens. Wonderful temperatures!
‘This is a huge 15 or 20 minutes for both sides,’ says Alan Shearer. Well, thanks for the insight.
Feel like CraigO may have blown all my sporting luck today for @somersetccc.bsky.social But hoping for another miracle.
Loved finding this photo in the National Portrait Gallery today, taken in our local Suffolk pub by Lee Miller in 1944, showing cartoonist Giles and American musicians.
Have this gorgeous goldfinch and at least three juveniles playing outside the window this afternoon.
This excellent thread says all you need to know about Ann Widdecombe.
I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · 4w ago#R4Today spent this morning warmly eulogising Ann Widdecombe. Almost none of what they said was wrong. Almost none of it was complete. Here's what they left out. 🧵
My Farage theory: he never believed it would go this far and that he could get within touching distance of power. He hasn't the work ethic, the ideology or the interest to be PM, and one way or another is going to find a way out of it. Whether that's this afternoon or at some other point.
It’s always a bit of a shock to realise it’s July 7, and think back to the horror of that day, which I remember like it was yesterday. Thinking of those whose lives were blighted by that cowardly pointless act.
Exciting delivery. Not even new, a 15-year old bat that’s been back to its maker for a refurb. Good as new and raring to go.
Just watched tourist stop random Japanese guy on street and ask him to take a photo. He obliges, but first it takes tourist an age to set up shot then asks for three retakes as not satisfied with photos. Patient, polite Japanese man obliges…
Wednesday July 1 - welcome to July #OriginalRollCall Lovely evening in Tokyo having dinner with highly entertaining colleague. Very humid again today - a day for staying inside… and learning a new language. Wishing all ORCs a good day.
If you’re not watching the Test match, now might be a good moment turn it on.
1976 was weather. This is is man made climate change. New post. open.substack.com/pub/bennotin...
1976 was weather. This is climate change.
Welcome to the uninhabitable future
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The England cricket team’s reset continues to go brilliantly I see.
I was born in 1971 and have had 13 Prime Ministers in that time. My daughter, born in 2006, has already had 8. Our system is sick and the country with it.
I can’t see them, but there is a pair of tawny owls in there somewhere chatting away to one another.
If you’d like, post one photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands
Megzigzag@megzigzag.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you’d like, post one photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands