As a G&S fan it's lovely to see the euphemism "felon" return to the English active vocabulary after a 145 year rest:
"When a felon's not engaged in his employment,
Or maturing his felonious little plans..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAdQ...

There’s now only two English managers in charge of teams in the Premier League.

On this date thirty years ago, there were 16.

How times change.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

Massive queues outside The Oval ahead of the first day of the deciding Ashes Test, August 16th 1930. Around 8000 tickets each day were sold at the gate and queues started forming the night before. They got to see England reach 316 for 5 by the close

Just got home after 5 hours carol singing!
We collected £388 but I now hate Christmas carols until next year!!

Blimey!
Go outside for a cigarette.
Come back in and find out I've just missed 3 England goals!!

My first meme on BlueSky is a tribute to Britain's greatest journalist, Camilla Tominey.
With her sixth sense, predicting the future, I do hope she produces a book of great journalism through history: