When I was in East Germany (Dresden and small towns) I managed to use my basic German to order things in restaurants and buy things in shops by saying I was English, asking them to repeat themselves a few times and responding to gestures.

I hope you’re now inserting a commemorative slide into all your PowerPoints for today, whilst also making a sufficient offering to Saint Cuthbert via his canine namesake?

Maybe he’s expecting divine intervention, given it is his namesakes Feast Day…

*Someone* is waiting for you to make that one mistake

In a sign of just how online my brain now is, as they bent down to scoop it up with a small cap from a flask, my mind instantly turned to @danwaterfield.bsky.social