Light dinner tonight. Melon. Parma ham. A light Aude Rosé. Still no salad! Some cheese and a red later in front of the tv.

16-year-old? I never knew that this was a thing. I worked with many 40-year-old men who displayed exactly this behaviour. They also thought misogyny was funny and called people spaz and cretin. So now I know there’s a term for it “16yearoldboyism”

Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 4h ago

Kemi's most 16-year-old boy quality is that she can never - NEVER - back down from any position she has jumped to, however ridiculous.

I really like our local paper. I subscribe. It’s generally very good. But this - under “Accidents” reports “a car and a cyclist”. I may have to upbraid the editor.

Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!

I guess we’ve all had relationships like this… Walking on the mines I laid.

Now playing. Up next.

Now playing. Next up.

This is the total sweet plum harvest for the year. One damson tree (cooking plums) had no fruit at all, the other about 10 but all been eaten by wasps. The apples and pears are so small they are probably not worth picking. One apple tree looks like it’s given up. Drought. Very sad.

I see the 4 big UK banks made a profit in 6 months of almost £30bn. 8 oil companies almost £70bn in just 3 months. It’s not a simple extrapolation but that’s about £320 billion a year for 12 companies. Profit. “Unfunded” VAT cut on electricity £850m. Or 0.25% of those profits. A quarter of 1%

Peppered tuna steaks. Mustard, lemon, olive oil, avocado and cucumber salad. Large glass of rosé de Provence.

Brilliant.

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s the 75th anniversary of two English women on holiday in France waking in the small hours to the sounds of a fierce battle taking place, later discovering that they were ‘witnessing’ the disastrous raid on Dieppe, which had taken place almost exactly nine years earlier 🧵

Grandchild coming to stay in two weeks time. This is her history syllabus for next year. I’m so excited to be seeing this through her eyes. And of course I’ll plant some ideas about “feudalism” too. John sans terre! Big around these parts. And we have the kings of crusader kingdoms.

Please keep posting. We need as much cross-fertilisation of ideas as possible.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d ago

I like to think I'm a pretty reasonable and nuanced poster, and usually put lots of qualifiers on my posts and people will still react in a way that completely disregards half of what I wrote. It's infuriating. I've already locked down replies and I think I may just need to remove quote posts.

Some hedgerow harvest for tonight’s pudding. With shop bought pizza (not shown) and a local beer from just down the road . The beer is VERY dark and 7%. Quite sweet - definitely not Guinness bitter - slips down too easily.

The village is at peak excitement this afternoon as the inhabitants move from one field to another.

I am responding to H’s suggestion of a bacon sandwich and a coffee for lunch potentially with an open mind. No, I have no idea what that means either. Probably, no, thanks.

Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵

Petition to allow players on the bench in the ridiculous 100 to play in their county #oneDaycup teams. This brought to you by Leicestershire commentators repeatedly saying “Somerset are the strongest one day side in the country” Smeed,Banton,Abell,TKC, Rew, Rew,Gregory,Overton, Henry or Meredith.

Another successful meal.

Welcome new followers. It’s not all witty commentary on French holidays though. It’s mainly French cookery experiments. Here is canard à l’orange (a whole orange, Cointreau, marmalade, flour and butter). With some pom’grenaille and a green salad. A red from Saumur. In about 15/20 minutes?

Trevor, darling, if you and other drivers are being fined in London then they are not "going about their lawful business", they are going about their business unlawfully. If you don't wish to obey London's traffic laws, there's an excellent train service from Canterbury.

I thought this needed wider circulation now we’re in August. H/T to @thelocalfrance.bsky.social @emmapearson.bsky.social

The US State Department says it is definitely this place.

Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · 4d ago

Many countries have been accused of allowing or causing the "invasion" of Ceuta. Who is really to blame? Wrong answers only I'll start

If Sandy Denny had stayed with the Strawbs they would have evolved into one of the most influential groups in music history. And she would still be alive.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Right. Leicester v Somerset. Somerset bowling looks a bit stronger than the other day. Live feed so far “better than Kent” (not a high barrier). #onedaycup #cricket

Week one as a branding consultant for the city of Gothenburg’s gone well, I feel.

Toujours la même logique : 1) les ultra-riches et les multinationales échappent à l'impôt en pratiquant l'évasion fiscale 2) ils communiquent sur leur générosité. Nous ne voulons pas leur charité, mais qu'ils payent leurs impôts pour financer les services publics !

How about “nowhere”. Nowhere’s good for me. Or Give the drivers a bicycle each and get them to race up Alpe d’Huez one weekend and three Cols in the Pyrenees on the other.

Sports 🇫🇷🇬🇧@sports.skyfleet.blue · 3d ago

Where in Europe should F1 race if the final two rounds cannot go ahead? | Debates and Polls

…spent most of his time in Dubai. What is it about this Islamic country that appeals so much to the leaders of Reform? I’ll start - I reckon it’s their enlightened immigration policy, the whole place depends on mass immigration to do all the work.

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d ago

It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)