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Paris?

Oliver doesn’t mince his words! I’m guessing that he won’t be applying for an ESTA anytime soon.

It used to be that seeing young police officers made one feel old. Later, it was one’s contemporaries becoming proper doctors, none of that ‘junior’ nonsense. Now the successes of my children and their schoolmates makes me feel positively ancient! The kids are alright.

I saw this in Edinburgh last summer. Hard recommend.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

It was one of my top films of 2025 - the other was the very different The Ballad of Wallis Island. I had to stop myself crying because I knew that if I started it would be that awful, noisy, gulping sobbing. I work in SEN; I’d love to think that things would be very different now but I’m not sure.

Those shenanigans ain’t gonna shenan themselves.

Thanks for your most excellent choices and for the glorious playlist which has accompanied me as I’ve written cards, wrapped presents and cooked … Christmas good wishes to you and your kin.

This echoes a piece by mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social about love being a verb. Loving, including those who have died, is a very active thing.

This is beautiful.

I had my saddle half-inched earlier this year. Whilst severely cheesed off, I was grateful that it wasn’t a wheel as I could, at least, push the bike home.
Three hearty cheers for Ollie and mate. I like to think that they’re young and, thus, confirm my belief that the kids are alright.

Closed since the beginning of 2024 for massive structural repairs and general refurbishment. A couple of expected re-opening dates have come and gone but they should re-open in the spring. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love your optimism that The Halls, in Norwich, will have re-opened by then.

Absolutely! It’s been a great way to discover new faves and new twists on old faithfuls.

Life would be extremely tedious and predictable if we all enjoyed the same thing.

It’s perfectly pleasant and very jolly but, for me, not an improvement of the glorious original.

Each to their own. I will look forward to tomorrow’s choice …

I love your Advent playlist and look forward to seeing your choice each Advent morning. It shuffles in the background as I write cards, and make cakes and mince pies.

Alas, today we are not in accord. I love the medieval simplicity of Adam Lay Ybounden which, I feel is lost in this arrangement.

I’m in.