Grangousier

Grangousier

@johnpeacock.com

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Go to your camera and search ‘boat’ and post one that you like. #photography

Faux Brummell@shodanalexm.bsky.social

Go to your camera and search ‘boat’ and post one that you like. #photography

Critical Mass are outside now, cycling the wrong way up a one way street and playing shit music so loud the building is shaking. And they wonder why people hate cyclists. Tossers.

Propriety. Noun. Conformity to established standards of behavior or manners, suitability, rightness, or justice. See "etiquette."

Neil Cameron@neilcam57.bsky.social

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

I wondered whether there had ever been a J.S. Bach festival called Bachanalia, after a bit of a struggle (neither DuckDuckGo nor Mac OS believe I actually wanted to type that and resisted furiously), the prize goes to Staunton, Virginia. Well done, Staunton, on behalf of bad joke lovers everywhere.

"And after all You're a forgotten Swinging London film about a peeping tom With a slightly rubbish George Harrison soundtrack." Far be it for me to suggest that's an accurate description of the England team, but the fans seem to think so.

Given the natural advantage the Mexican team will have on account of the altitude, perhaps factors should be introduced to slightly advantage the England team and balance it out. Like both teams having to play after drinking ten pints of strong lager.

I realise that would mean the whole thing would devolve into a bloody fist fight the moment the whistle goes, but that would also be entertaining.

Just think, this time next week we’ll be moaning about how wet and miserable it is, swearing as we trip over the air conditioning unit: “What idiot put that there?”

Thames Water have parked a gigantic vacuum cleaner right outside our flat, just in time for bed. Occasionally they turn it on, and I have to say it complements the sound of the pneumatic drill wonderfully.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! King Crimson Pink Floyd Michael Nyman Band Laurie Anderson Elizabeth Fraser Scritti Politti Dave Russell Lekhfa Juniore Julian Lage

Emma Jacobs@emmavj.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Prince Kendrick Lamar/Sza Tyler the creator Obongjayar Tricky FKA twigs Skinny Pelembe Beyoncé Joan As policewoman Bucks Fizz

Reports from outside suggest that Cuntstock is a lot smaller and more muted this time. Is that because the Hungarian money has gone away, or is it because the Kremlin money has been cut back?

Right. Going to commit a little light democracy. I'll need my passport, because democracy is another country, where they do things differently.

Microsoft Authenticator is the new Clipper, but somehow worse. In the name of security you spend your working life scrabbling for your phone and typing in numbers. The box to tick every day for the unmet promise of remembering you is a particularly nice touch. “Nice” in this case meaning “sadistic”.

I decided today that at some point everyone is going to get so sick of spending their lives logging in to things that aren’t worth the effort that we’ll just throw up our hands and go back to subsistence farming, or scrabbling for berries. A conundrum for future archaeologists.

Trying to set up a new phone which demands I prove I'm over 18, which doesn't seem to work either with a credit card or my passport. Thank you, stupid fucking Online Harms Bill, for making so many aspects of our life shitter in so many different ways.

So is all public policy change from now on going to be enacted via TV docudrama adaptations of old Private Eye articles? If so, who's going to play Ben Houchen in a couple of years' time?

As per usual, we're listening to the fireworks through the open window, and watching them on the TV, the perfect compromise between immediacy and comfort.

I just looked it up. On WB Yeats' gravestone, it says: Cast a cold Eye On Life. On Death. Horseman pass by. Which slightly disappointed me, as I'd hoped it said: Tread softly Because you tread on my face.

The doorbell just rang. It was another person who's booked a stay in one of the flats here (the majority are now Air BnB or equivalent) asking how to get in. I have no idea, but don't want to become an unpaid concierge. In case anyone's wondering what happened to all the rentable flats in London.