I wonder if there's a symmetry between the drone sightings over the US airbases and the UFO sightings that climbed in the 50s when there was insecurity about the cold war. Hmmm

So the Chistmas Market at Stratford Upon Avon was cancelled due to the high winds brought by storm Darragh. We booked to stay the weekend, but there's no better place to stay if something is cancelled.

I always thought Captain America was an insulting concept seeing that WW2 had no superheroes to defeat the Axis forces. It was achieved with ordinary soldiers costing many their lives.

Piers Morgan - Trump apologist on the BBC.
Why have we got this bloke on our national news agency reporting for his friend. He's a discredited hack.

That's a brilliant defence of the government's policy on public school vat.

I wanted a platform to read and post.
A place to write and upload pictures, text.
But Musk has seized it in his power boast.
So now it really has become my eX.

School has always combined education and control. Some of that is positive - keeping kids safe. I'm not as convinced that anti smartphone rules for children are wholly that. In banning them you are removing what is a very powerful tool in their hands. Can't tech controls be developed when in school?

I'm currently readiing Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: A Biography.
He suggests Shakespeare's neighbour on Henley Street owned pack horses and transported goods to London and that Shakespeare probably travelled with him. We recently had coffee on Henley Street. Such details really bring texts alive.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,233,837!
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Our last night in Stratford Upon Avon - one of our favourite places and not very far from where we live.
No plays - just enjoying the Riverside and town.

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Stewart Lee stand up. He's a bit different. UK references might miss the mark if you're from elsewhere.

Guardian letter on the unfairness of private schools exams compared to State school GCSEs in the UK.

www.theguardian.com/education/ar...