Cricket at the Oval on International Beer Day. What could possibly go wrong?

Run that one past me again, irrelevant cretintroll clickseeker? WHOSE national culture?

The Braverman bits, for any Bluesky users in the TL:DR camp. (Apologies, no Alt Text because it can be found in the article).

A fun morning of kayak litter picking on the Lower Regents Canal; no rat corpses this time, but amazing quantities of decaying polystyrene.

I see that cretinous would-be dictator Donald Trump is now keen on the US joining the Commonwealth. They’d need to change the membership criteria though. thecommonwealth.org/about/joining

Top work by @givebloodnhs.bsky.social I had a harmless stroke episode on Saturday, but it turns out I can no longer give blood/platelets. That makes me sad. But if we can find a few volunteers (maybe 1 for platelets, 2 for plasma, and 3 for whole blood) I’d feel a lot better. Any takers?

Here I am in Chile, trying to convince myself that Newtonian physics works even in the Southern hemisphere, and a restaurant does this to me.

Today we have mostly been walking through Chilean rainforest and seeing woodpeckers: Magellanic and striped for your delectation.