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Beautiful day in The Shire…if you can avoid the rain

After years and years of having an Android phone, I’ve only just discovered the usefulness of the Gboard personal dictionary, with the suggestion bar turned on.

I’ve got ‘xxm’ set up to generate a markdown link

Gboard settings can be accessed by long pressing the comma

Smartprix page about Gboard

I enjoyed Supacell, but it did make South east London seem a bit grim.

I was hoping a bit for superheroes in capes laying waste to Lewisham High Street.

That didn’t happen…but it’s a great show

As the commentator pointed out, it looks a bit like Everton are playing Saudi Arabia :(

Pam Ayers has a pile of wood and rubbish in her garden which provides a habitat for hedgehogs and insects and such

She has a genius word for it. It’s her ‘nonfire’

Midnight Meets - Pam Ayres

A friend has met Paul McCartney a couple of times

I thought about what I’d say if I ever met him.

I came to the conclusion that I’d ask him what his favourite Elvis song was

I dreamt last night that I met Sir Paul in a cafe. I’m a bit disgruntled that in my dream I neglected to ask the question

One of the Conservative candidates for their Leadership was just on the telly.

The reporter asked if she’d speak to him (and therefore to the country), and she said “No…I’m speaking to the members”

That’s kind of the Conservatives' problem in a nutshell

And perhaps a problem with party politics generally

I still miss Jose

The Fenerbahce manager, José Mourinho, was booked by the referee on Sunday after he protested against a VAR decision to disallow a goal by placing a laptop in front of a TV camera and displaying a picture in an effort to show the offside decision was incorrect

José Mourinho booked for bizarre laptop VAR protest in Fenerbahce match

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My favourite pub name is The Conquered Moon

By the way…everyone should have a favourite pub name - what’s yours?

The Conquered Moon was a pub on Bemerton Heath which shut down many years ago

I searched online for a picture of the pub sign. I couldn’t find one, so I got an AI to do this

More to come

New powershell group “dedicated to bringing together professionals with a passion for PowerShell, DSC, Configuration Management, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery, on-prem and Cloud Infrastructure.”

• PowerShell World | Meetup

For me this is a music podcast of Avengers Assemble - the blokes from Sodajerker meet the blokes from Word in Your Ear

I particularly enjoyed the implication that if you don’t like “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, then you can’t call yourself a Beatles fan

What the sodajerkers know about songwriting

That’s kind of irritating….the much-used-by-me ‘Format Document’ command in VS Code has a different keyboard shortcut in Linux

• Windows is Shift + Alt + F
• Linux is Ctrl + Shift + i

Strange country

Hollywood actor Damian Lewis has taken part in an “eccentric” tradition dating back hundreds of years by herding sheep over the River Thames.

Hollywood star shepherds sheep over London bridge - BBC News

I enjoyed Scott Minto talking about Cole Palmer at half time

He danced around making the comparison, but eventually uttered what he’d previously referred to as ‘the M-word’ - Messi

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Listening on the Chelsea app, and getting slightly worried for Jason Cindy

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“1000 copies were pressed (which sell for £1000 upwards)”

I sold my copy for £25…although to be fair I was glad of it at the time

Had a nice evening in a pub with some old chums, half watching some football that I don’t really care about

Shockingly, the pub didn’t do food, but they said we could get a takeaway and bring it in….so chips and Brixton IPA

Slippers 3.0 is still incompatible with Dog 1.0

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water….in Paris!

I enjoyed this amiably over-the-top Jaws-meets-the-Paris-Olympics film on Netflix

It’s either ‘Under Paris’ or ‘Sous La Seine’