AdrianAtterbury

I've just searched and another set could be mine for £38.

I never scroll past a Norm MacDonald clip.

Early one morning when I was a student I quietly sneaked the battery from my car and a set of La Cucaracha air horns into the house to wake my housemate. Well worth it. Wish I still had those.

How many more American soldiers and Iranian civilians need to die before Democrats will drop their Epstein inquiry?

Empty beach..

Same in Worthing. Ghost town.

I knew this from listening to Farming Today on Radio 4. Have DEFRA considered listening to the radio in the morning?

Surely as supporters of libraries you should be in favour of this situation.

Maybe AI will turn out to be like 3D films: one of those things where you want to see what it's like for the novelty, but then have no real use for.

Fuck your "edit button", we're grown adults.

FOG The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Good evening from me and Carl Sandburg.

Martha’s rule may have saved 400 lives so far in England, figures show Exclusive: System brought in after death of 13-year-old is helping ‘transform culture’ of NHS, says patient safety director More than 400 lives may have been saved as a result of Martha’s rule, which lets NHS patients request a review of their care, official figures reveal. Helplines received more than 10,000 calls in the first 16 months of the scheme after its introduction in England in 2024, according to data seen by the Guardian. Thousands of patients were either moved to intensive care, received drugs they needed or benefited from other changes as a direct result of the calls. Continue reading...

Martha’s rule may have saved 400 lives so far in England, figures show

That's the spirit!

You're thinking of the effect not the cause. I mean, if you always turn your steering wheel 7/150 too much to the right the journey will eventually feel more than 7/150 different, especially if it ends with you embedded in a supermarket front window.

I was going to go for a walk, but I've decided I just don't want to.

That's my solution, don't criticise unless you've got anything better.

As any mathematician knows, pi, if the universe had been set up correctly, would be 3.0. Now 3.14 divided by 3.0 equals 1.046 recurring, or 1 & 7/150. By simple inductive reasoning, a hypothesis may be formed that everything is 7/150 wrong. If we can correct for this everything will be fine.

I'd love to see Blimp for the first time again! All of P&P, in fact.

Oh sure, “you’re not supposed to drink WD40”. Then why does it come with a straw?

At the risk of you spending more 💰, his book on the weird, weird story of the KLF is an extraordinary read.

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Best of luck.

Probably bought it cheap when it was a rough area in 1830.

Thumping the like button! Great book!

That surprises me, it's been out for a while. Charity shop find for me.

Cover of John Higgs' Watling Street

Reading John Higgs' Watling Street, a history of the character of England hung on a journey along the ancient road. Somewhere on a spectrum with Bill Bryson at one end and W.G. Sebald at the other. I think I'm becoming a Higgs fan, I've enjoyed all his books I've read.

The only one I liked was Ezra Pound. I won't spoil how he turns out but I feel it's as much a judgement on me as him.

In a shrewd move, the Iranian state has appointed Pete Hegseth as Supreme Leader.

% of Women in Parliament. Top 10, as of January 2026:

Rwanda 63.8%
Cuba 57.2%
Nicaragua 55%
Bolivia 50.8%
Mexico 50.4%
Andorra 50%
UAE 50%
Costa Rica 49.1%
Australia 46%
Iceland 46%

USA is 28.9%
United Kingdom is 40.6%

Don't let me put you off! As I say, I thought it was a great book, it was just that I formed what felt like a personal dislike of that whole circle. I expect they wouldn't have liked me, either 😁

I got about two thirds of the way through that but couldn't get further. Very well written, very well researched, I even really liked the cover, I felt bad giving up on something someone has done so well, but I just didn't like any of the people being written about and it was a deal breaker.

Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.