Garden has a lot of potential to be fair. Cannot wait for the Grand Designs episode about the whole thing

That said if I did ever become rich and insane enough to build a lair like this, the water tower I'd convert to live in would be this one in Church Langley, Essex

Looks like there's a hatch at the top so if one was in "RIP to your grandma but I'm built different" mode you could just float to the top and escape?

Lmao

Yes, and no - as away fans use the Intercity a lot the British Rail logo has become a motif of football casual culture. Well, some of them could be rail nerds as well I guess.

They have to be read, if only to experience some genuine real-world Partridge interwoven with a fanatical and seemingly unwarranted loathing of Hannah Hampton

Sir, a second Mary Earps extract has hit the timeline

That said, there was something humbling & egalitarian when everyone wore the same paper poppies with a limited lifespan. Now you can get permanent pin badges & fancy bejewelled versions, it just feels less of a communal act, even without the right-wing connotations

Also I'm surprised/disappointed that no-one else involved in this - her ghostwriter, the publisher, whoever commissioned & edited it at the Guardian - went at any point "Are you sure about this? This does you no favours, especially so soon after"

I can totally understand how being dropped must have been awful for her. Sarina Wiegman made a difficult but ultimately correct decision. But Earps isn't able to process it as anything other than a personal attack on her, instead of a manager doing what's best for the team

Out of interest I looked up the princes who got their titles taken the other day in case they were hard done by and... er not really

Credit where it's due though the foreign objects letter is the funniest Viz letter I've seen since this absolute gem