BBC: Houston tiger: Animal missing for a week locatedThe animal was spotted out on the streets on 9 May. When officers arrived at the scene, a man [who was on bail for murder] put the tiger into an SUV and drove off, police said. Houston Police attempted to follow the vehicle but lost sight of… Continue reading Missing cat
Nonsense
News from ‘The North’
Manchester United v. Liverpool: a ‘derby match’… Where I come from, them’s fighting words. But I appreciate the Torygraph is a tad vague with geography north of Hampstead.
Libellous
Hebden Bridge trending on Twitter.
What’s the worst that can happen?
Guardian: Killer farm robot dispatches weeds with electric bolts
Free idea…
Someone should write a browser extension to change every use of the word(s) ‘PM’ or ‘Prime Minister’ to ‘Knobhead’.
There’s no present like the time
My watch is 40 years old today… …a 16th birthday present from my mum. £85—bought in instalments from the Littlewoods catalogue. Thanks, mum.
Book review: ‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf
Streams of consciousness in the Hebrides.
Equinox
I get that ‘equi-nox’ = ‘equal night’, but what we all really want to know is who’s this Vernon chap it’s named after? Postscript (5 hours later): OK, so, the Internet is weird. Someone on Twitter has just thanked me for the above crappy joke, which he immediately used as the inspiration for a short… Continue reading Equinox
That’s far more polite than I would have put it.
Guardian: People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests
Jabsolutely nothing to declare
BBC: Covid: Minister rules out vaccine passports in UK Apparently, nobody could agree what colour they should be.