Soapy FFC

That looks like some sort of 1970's Olympic uniform

I ordered 4 spare screws for our garden gazebo. I assumed they would come in a flat envelope that would be put through the letter box, but no they were in a package that had to be handed to someone. The screws were wrapped in a tennis ball sized bundle of bubble wrap, inside a large plastic bag. There was so much bubble wrap it took me a while to actually find the screws. Seems a bit over the top to me.

Many people miss parcels because they're at work, so I love the thinking that they can reduce the hours available to people to collect the parcels, but make the restricted hours at the start of the work day when most people will not be able to go due to being at or going to work. Who is the mail service actually supposed to serve?

I'm not an expert on cockatoo sizes, but it was about the height of his head.

Viaplay is still showing on the EPG. There are 4 TNT channels, and a couple of TNT box office channels spread about the place. Moving Eurosport hasn't even got all the TNT channels together. Ah, just found this https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/21/eurosport-bt-sport-disappear-tnt-rebrand-tv Not sure what that will mean for watching Eurosport without an additional subscription

Turned on the TV and went to Eurosport, channel 410, to watch the Tour de France, but got TNT Sports instead. Sky, in their infinite wisdom, have moved Eurosport from channels 410/411 to 413/414 and put TNT Sports there instead. Why f**k about with established channels for new ones.

The number one qualification to be a politician.

Thanks, my new word of the day.

Whereas when I visited a mate in The Netherlands a few years ago, the bus from the local train station didn't leave until the train had arrived and people had got off. How it should be.

A piece on research about how the body copes with higher temperatures https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hot-hot-human-body-function-optimally-rcna92346

Surely paying £360 in fines instead of £5000 extra if he'd went during the school holidays means he should be chuffed as f**k instead of complaining.

Stopped at the services in Kinross the other night, and a guy came out of the building with a cockatoo sitting on his shoulder, got in his car and drove off with the bird still sitting on his shoulder. Weird.

I remember when the Guinness Book of Records used to be a useful reference book.

Home made margaritas, made with a mixture of freshly squeezed lime and lemon juice.

Celebrity Lingo on ITV. RuPaul 's voice just annoys me and the fake audience noises are horrendous.

It's probably the case that the very rich do not pay the tax as it stands because they can easily pay wealth managers to put all their money outwith the scope of the tax. The people who do pay it are the everyday "accidentally wealthy" people who happen to have been in a house for 30 odd years that's increased in value and have retired from a reasonably paid job and taken a lump sum from their pension. The tax needs to be reformed so that it's not just these people who pay it, but the really wealthy that it's intended to hit, but who get missed every time.

I watched the Netflix documentary about the Fyre Festival, and there was a pilot in it who said he learned to fly on Microsoft Flight Simulator, so you should be OK on Gran Turismo.

I saw him tonight on Would I Lie to You going on about giving Damon Hill a scotch egg. Brilliant.

If you have Excel, I have a spreadsheet that does that sort of stuff

Watched the start of the 6 o'clock news for the first time in a while. The running order for the first 4 stories were 1. Hollywood actors/writers strike 2. Kevin Spacey trial 3. Gatwick strikes 4. Wife and care worker jailed for enslaving disabled husband. I now see why I no longer watch the BBC news.

I think that was a dunnock. A sparrowhawk caught it on the ground for an evening snack.

I read on here he's religious. Just as well he's not Mormon or he'd have to give up a tenth (at least) of his income to the Church to remain a member. That would be a huge whack on top of this 8%.

Every cloud ...

We went up to Perth last night to see Sarah Millican. Got there and the theatre was closed. Checked the tickets and they were definitely for 11th July, but unfortunately, 11th July 2024. I vaguely remember that when we booked the tickets we knew they were for next year, but it was put in the calendar for this year. It’s getting put down to a senior moment.

I think the wood pigeons are funny. they don't seem to be the sharpest tools in the toolbox compared to other birds, but they do give you a laugh.