Totally got the same energy, which is a compliment.
Totally got the same energy, which is a compliment.
Congratulations and best of luck!
That reminds me of the old joke about the American tourist at Oxford circus who asks which way to Marks & Spencer and then goes looking for 'Ivor Way'.
Hyperspecific public sector DP observation: it's really annoying the way (e) automatically updates to the euro sign in Word, isn't it? Especially after 6 (1)
Ha, a camera crew and a producer adds to the artificiality but I was actually thinking of travelbros who are all 'just me and my selfie stick'.
Were you inspired by Monet's woman with a parasol pictures?
I get served a lot of clips of 'men in less-visited countries'. I'm not saying it's wrong for them to go, but there's never any acknowledgement that they're only acceptable to many of these countries as white, straight-presenting men. Or at least that their experience would be different otherwise.
#SingingJoy number 3 for 2026. Last Friday I sang 'Salley Gardens' at a local supperclub open mic. No accompanist, so needed to be a folk song. It was a last minute choice as I couldn't find my songbook with 'Ae Fond Kiss' in it. Just before St David's Day, but I don't know any Welsh songs, alas.
I'm trying to work out under what circumstances it could possibly be okay to use laziness as an excuse for underperforming in the workplace.
I'm drooling thinking about ut now and have another hour of meetings first!
Past Katharine was too tired to cook last night and it won't be possible at lunchtime so it's kebab lunch day.
Rick Stein went to Germany and it was terrible.
The thing I find hard to deal with is the women from my very privileged educational background, where we were educated to believe that career was everything, who have dropped out of the (traditional)workplace. Privilege is part of it, as it's clearly something they can afford as a family unit.
Can share the opposite. GP insisted I use their in-house practitioner. She stopped the session, said CBT wasn't what I needed.
Ah Ozzy is nice. The zones get very confusing. And sometimes you don't know which side of the barrier you're on.
I totally would do this but would require an even earlier start from marylebone than it does from Euston.
I read it recently and can thoroughly recommend!
The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraphβs preposterous βWe earn Β£345k but soaring private school fees mean we canβt go on five holidaysβ, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.
Breakfast on a blue china plate: buttered toast, mushrooms, hash browns, two grilled half tomatoes and a fried egg. Wooden table, newspaper (actually the LRB) seen behind.
#EggClub goes East. Early riser veggie breakfast at The Full Monty just off Roman Road. Mushrooms were perfect, veg sausage a bit odd-tasting.
Thank you - I headed back to Bethnal Green for bus convenience but this would work as a meeting place on Saturday pre-Care Home visit.
A Victorian room 'boasted of no furniture but eight old leathern chairs and two old tables .. surrounded by shelves'. Barely furnished, Victorian style. (From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope).
They can be really scary if you're in the water with them. They're better at swimming than I am.
Good bossing, boss. I am taking notes.
Oh ... YOUNG people.
Anything you like is ok for breakfast!
Trying to make the prospect of a mammogram on my rest day more appealing by finding a caff to go to near Mile End Hospital.
No!
I did that on my honeymoon! Only problem is staying a night in Zurich. Creepy hotel and they could not have cared less that we were newlyweds. Not the first time I had terrible hospitality in Switzerland.
Was hoping to travel back from Milan on the new European sleeper in June. Now confirmed it's not running until September. Alternative plan to get some way along the TGV and spend the night, probably at Chambery.