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The amount of water in M&S sausages makes Tesco Value bacon look arid. I was starting to worry I'd need a plumber to help cook them.

My email just now - pretty sure that's not one question.

I know everyone will be talking about Walter Koenig's role in Star Trek ad nauseum - but for me, his role as the black uniformed Sci-Cop Bester in Babylon 5 was chillingly scary.

I know everyone will be talking about Walter Koenig's role in Star Trek ad nauseum - but for me, his role as the black uniformed Sci-Cop Bester in Babylon 5 was chillingly scary.

Is Tesco actually advertising fruit and veg for kiddies using an image of Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas?

Clocks have gone back, and that means it's much easier to hop on the Central line and visit Theydon Bois for an early-evening wander through its wonderfully dark streets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

New in at the LT Museum shop.ltmuseum.co.uk/products/woo...

Tapestry Tickets! More tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry have been released for Fri 6th, Sat 7th, and Sun 8th November. ticketing.britishmuseum.org/events/the-b...

Turns out there's a national shortage of capacity to safely dispose of old fridges and freezers. www.richmond.gov.uk/news/news_oc...

There may be significant disruption to District and Circle line services on Monday 26 October because engineering work near Gloucester Road is taking longer than planned.

In an hour's time, thousands of stock photos of buses and taxis driving down Oxford Street will be rendered worthless. At least a fiver's worth of photo licening rights per year will be wiped out by the Mayor's actions.

God's street lighting.

Freddie Mercury in the V&A.

For all the buttons they have, dishwashers really only come with just two settings -- the one you use every day and the really long one you use on Christmas Day.

Things I have inadvertently stockpiled: Tonnes of corporate brand tote bags, notebooks and pens. An entire flu's worth of tinned beef curry soup. Hundreds of postage stamps bought on days I can't find the hundreds of stamps I already own. A fire brigade's worth of wrong sized rechargable batteries.

Fun morning dealing with a DDoS-style attack on the website, as thousands of IP addresses all over the world kept hammering my website for long-dead pages. Finally found the correct combination of WAF rules etc to block it. (yes, I have mitigations in place)

Clocks have gone back, and that means it's much easier to hop on the Central line and visit Theydon Bois for an early-evening wander through its wonderfully dark streets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

London's Diwali celebrations in Trafalgar Square tomorrow (Sunday 25th October) have been cancelled because Storm Boelo makes it too dangerous to erect the stages (etc) today.

Ryvita, founded in 1925, and holder of a Royal Warrant to King Char... wait, hang on.

Big crane is big

Saw this hanging by the tower and just about resisted the temptation to really upset the locals.

Station tannoy says if I see anything unusual to see it etc. Darlings, its ComicCon and the Lizzie line is packed with brightly coloured superheroes, monsters and elves. The only unusual thing to see l are the weirdos in boring clothes.