Liz Truss has lost her seat….jeepers
Much as I disagree with her about pretty much everything, that must be tough
Wish me luck
I’ve been and gone and voted
June in sketchnotes
What I did in June
- saw the magnificent Fly Yeti Fly
- curry at the Elai
- lots of training walks
- possibly my best header in 40 years
- ate a cornetto
- watched the ‘debate of many leaders’
- picked up chum who’d come off his bike
- cemented in a new washing line
- laptop irretrievably blue-screened
- read and simultaneously listened to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- hacked back an overgrown holly bush
- linux-ified the blue-screened laptop
- ordered a speaker that was several times bigger than I expected
- beer in the Coach and Horses
- Aldi
- brained myself on a road sign
- picked up Child #2
- enjoyed Bad Boys
- got a rain coat
- watched England
I thought England should have done much better against Slovenia
It looks like I underestimated Slovenia ⚽
For the first time ever, I just got asked to take part in an opinion poll
One of the questions, after they’d done the serious ones, was who would I rather have as Prime Minister
- Kier Starmer or
- Rishi Sunak or
- Nigel Farage or
- Ed Davey or
- Taylor Swift or
- Ant and Dec
I should have said I wanted them all to job-share on a one-day-per-week basis
As a wise man once said, “Football. Bloody hell.”
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It would be a shame if Joe Biden is mainly remembered as the guy that enabled the second Trump presidency
Call me a pedant but this week I have been particularly irritated by BBC Radio 5 calling itself “the home of the Euro’s” when the Euro’s are actually on in Germany
I can’t think of another example where father and son have been current on the same team
I’m wondering what it will be like, for both of them 🏀
NBA draft: Bronny James unites with father LeBron at LA Lakers - www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp…
In defence of Rishi and Kier
A bloke called Robert, a member of the audience in the debate last night, got a lot of applause for asking this question
“Are you two really the best we’ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country?”
One of those two had a successful career in finance, the other had a succesful career in law, eventually running the CPS.
Both gave up very lucrative careers to go into politics. Both went onto lead their parties, replacing politicians who could be seen as disastrous
I don’t know what Robert has done with his life, but I’ve not done enough with mine to ask a question like that
#TodayILearned that
“The word “Bronx” originated with Swedish-born (or Faroese-born) Jonas Bronck, who established the first European settlement in the area as part of the New Netherland colony in 1639.”
My new, not necessarily improved, sketchnote heiroglyphic for ‘a JSON file’
Words I Like - Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)
Jules Rimet, still gleaming
Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) by Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds, The Lightning Seeds - songwhip.com/baddiel-s…
Here’s a cheery thought ⚽
If England don’t win the Euro’s this time, then, by the time if the next World Cup it will be 30 Years of Hurt since they first sang about the 30 Years of Hurt 🎵
Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) by Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - songwhip.com/baddiel-s…
I didn’t enjoy the football, but I did enjoy the Guardian’s headline ⚽
Woe de Cologne
This came up, from 11 years ago, in my Photos app
I was going to a work thing in Eastleigh, which I think was Benny Hill’s birthplace
The fact that the road named in his honour is called Benny Hill Close makes it sound like it might be a warning.
I like a good , flowery political metaphor, and this is a particularly vivid one, from Andrew Rawnsley
“Rather than scotch Reform, going early flushed out Nigel Farage to play the role of smirking fire ship smashing into the side of the creaking Tory hulk.”
www.theguardian.com/commentis…
Scotland fans win the European Championships of singing, by some distance ⚽
A friend who is a painter and decorator introduced one of his colleagues as a ‘brother of the brush’
I thought that was cool