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Johnson now starting a civil war. Philip Davies attacking him at PMQ's yesterday, him and his buddies attacking Bernard Jenkin today...

I've got a couple of those in the lab here, I think. Is this for curing concrete cubes underwater? We had a cement chemist here and he retired in 2020, but the lab is all still here.

'I heard stuff hitting the house': Area resident recalls sudden tornado

7 for Thursday

A couple of years ago, on the radio were a couple of people lobbying to have the Loch Ness Monster designated as Scotland's national animal. BBC Scotland had a radio phone in about it, including some bitter Tory woman, probably from Perthshire, saying it was a rotten idea. It would be a mockery of the country to have a fictional story creature as the national animal. The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn. She wasn't best pleased when this was pointed out.

ANPR isn't infallible. My dad got a similar PCN for driving through Salisbury and he hadn't been near the place. The image showed the number plate was similar to his, but not the same. AN eyeball check was all that was needed there.

I see your Stephens and raise you Bayne's. Their morning roll and coffee deal is excellent, their stuff delicious.

9 for Wednesday

First heard it on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Still the best.

The king of them being the immortal Jimmy Carter.

@Zen Archer (Raconteur) is a stand up guy

Me neighbours are out and their dog has been barking for 2 hours now.

I worked in Somerfield in the 90s. The practice there for getting stuff from height in the storeroom was to have a guy stand on a pallet on a forklift, and have it raised into the air. Totally against health and safety. A mate of mine had his pelvis crushed when the (untrained) driver of the truck smashed him into the metal shelving when he was 20 feet up. The shop was fined £20k and the manager resigned.

Recently we had an email come round banning dogs from offices. This affects one guy only, who always brought his dog in. It slept under his desk. He's obeying the rule. However, in my last workplace a similar thing happened, and the guy it affected there just ignored it. He kept bringing his dog in, as he had been bringing his dogs to work for over 20 years. They never made any trouble. Another guy I used to work with would stand at his office window smoking cigars, despite it being a "no smoking" building. So...are there any (petty) workplace rules that you have broken at work? Or any that others are breaking you would like to see enforced?

I know he has a fan club on here

Throbber is right. The end of that season Arsenal players were playing for draws. It was poor stuff to watch.

Back from his holiday, a colleague of mine has written a complaint to the School management complaining about his excessive workload and demanding a meeting to discuss this urgent issue. This colleague has the lowest workload in the team. Honestly, the first thing he did when he got back. You all know who it is.

7 for Tuesday

Reading more last night, and found a football related one. He was working at Brockville in November 1978, a match between Falkirk and Dunfermline. A Dunfermline fan was fighting with a Falkirk fan, but as the police approached they got away. Later on they spotted the Dunfermline fan fighting again. My old man chased him, upon which the police witnesses heard him shout "You shower of b*****ds, you'll never catch me". They caught him, arrested him for breach of the peace, and he said "I never done nothing" Googled the match and Falkirk won 4-1. Good result all round.

10 for Monday

Completely getting the compo face wrong ‘My dream home has more than 100 safety issues – how is this allowed to happen after Grenfell?’