Jon Hickman

This is a fantastic little show. A+++++ recommended

Kids took a lovely photo of me hanging out in Milan before we go to the San Siro

Anyone I follow know much about going to the San Siro? General tips welcome but I have a specific question: Reddit suggests food at ground is very good, but is any of it vegetarian? 🥴 we’re going to Inter v Fiorentina tomorrow lunchtime

unai emery reading bluesky

The original selfie! Nearly 50 years ago in Handsworth, photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon set up an impromptu studio in the street and invited neighbours to photograph themselves. If you’ve never seen the pics take a look - really special www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I’ve designed and built a theme for @ghost.org called Plain Text, made for writers who want a quiet, typographically refined reading experience. Before I submit it to the marketplace I’d love to find a tester or two. If you run a Ghost site (or know someone who does) and want to try, let me know?

Fellow & Firkin, 1997 (aka Wellhead Tavern aka The Hare of the Dog). Love this pic which I took while learning to use an SLR and print my own photos. You’ll know this pub if you went to UCE/BCU or if you go to #avfc and used to walk over from Perry Barr station or make use of the uni car park

Bit of a niche one but When you drive on the M42 and Google Maps asks, innocently, “are the roadworks still there?” Yes mate. They are. They will be there til long after you and I die.

morning

Uncertainty over Bond casting means it’s time for the English Cricket Board to put Question Time on hold, according to FaceTime.

Seasonal adjustments

The next in a series of occasional posts about emails from my local Chinese takeaway. I'm sure you'll agree, a classic of the genre

“Our water is served in smaller portions, so we recommend two to three glasses per person”

“Is there _anything_ to be said for another crane?”

I dunno man, if I was a journalist and confidentally posted a quote of Unai saying something devastating (and objectively wrong) about his own players, I'd be double checking it.

Lol this BBC journo has done Unai dirty here with this fake quote and also hallucinated a player. Can't tell what's more depressing, this just being the standard of writing at the BBC or if it's just someone popping a transcript into ChatGPT and going "yeah that'll do."

I don’t know how pissed I was last night but I made this.

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

Having a lovely reminisce over the “content blocker” I made back in the day. It made the Birmingham Mail website faster at serving ads by removing all the journalism. onlinejournalismblog.com/2016/03/22/a...

I’m a (shut the fuck up, it’s true) way off 50 yet but 50th birthday parties are pretty cool cos you can have a sit down and nobody frowns if you have a glass of water some rounds and there’s cake and the bar calls last orders a bit early and now I’m having a cup of tea and watching my stories

The Your Friends & Neighbours funeral episode (For Everything Else, There Was Bowling) enters the canon of great TV episodes about losing folk. It’s no Halt & Catch Fire “Goodwill” or Buffy’s “The Body” but it’s reaching up there.

P.S. Search for lads in 1979 Handsworth photo project: as Derek Bishton plans to have the photographs printed in a book, he has managed to track down the majority of the participants except two, who were boys at the time. Someone must know these two. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sounds like a skills issue

My kid has adopted my favorite beer glass as his favourite water glass and because he starts drinking water earlier in the day than I would have a beer it’s basically no longer mine.

For All Mankind series 5 is _very_ soapy isn’t it? I think maybe the alternate history schtick was hiding this tendency from me all along in the first 4 seasons but now it’s so unmoored from our timeline it’s much plainer. Still enjoying it all tho.

Natalie Portman / Tanguy Destable sounds like a UEFA Conference League fixture you’d probably not tune in for at 5:45pm on TNT.

Missed an important part of this review, not that you care: thought Barkley was off in the summer, and would have been fine with it, but he’s running the show isn’t he? Marvellous lad.

#avfc missed Torres today, I think. The CB pairing didn’t have the energy or vision to move the ball like he does (much as I love those two goofs). Not sure Garnacho is the answer to anything but if he is I didn’t hear the question. Love my new keeper. And we go again.

Can I get from Tottenham to Nottingham using only public bus services?

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Here's our working. Snobs I was 4.4km from Bearwood, Snobs II was 4.8km away, Snobs III was 3.7km away and Snobs IV will be 3.8km away, representing an overall gradual creep towards Bearwood. Looking forward to Snobs XI taking residence in The Kings Head!

With the news that Birmingham's Snobs Nightclub is set to move to yet another new location later this month, we have calculated that, based on its current trajectory, it should reach Bearwood by 2048.

“There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane, and yet she smiled, for Jacob's Creek was 25% off with Club card all week”

Free Henry! He’s a very useful engine!

“Villa have made a new signing” “Mbaye?” “No it’s been confirmed”

Local news needs quick, flexible support to survive, and that's what the Immediate Needs Fund delivers. 🙌 Tiny News Collective just gave 22 newsrooms $5,000 each to cover urgent needs, from paying freelancers to intern mentorship. www.tinynewsco.org/tiny-news-gi...

The weirdest thing in culture I’ve spotted this summer is that without warning Eggs Benedict are now “Eggs Benny”. I saw this in Canada, just assumed it was a cute Canadian thing. But then I came back and it’s all over menus in the UK too. And no longer cute.

I’ve worked remotely for like 9 years so I’ve tended to skip bank holiday Mondays (allowed to take em but they were out of my leave allocation, and Monday was always an awkward day to take off). Bank Holiday Mondays are pretty dope. It took skipping lots of them to appreciate that. 😎🍻

Once a year I manage to get someone on the internet to try making Gâche Mélée, a very non-photogenic, but delicious apple cake 0.5lb butter+1lb sugar creamed together Add 2 eggs & beat Fold in 1lb flour, 1tsp ginger, 1tsp cinnamon Fold in 3lb sliced apples Bake 170C/gas 3 for 1.5-2hrs Enjoy 🇬🇬

This sums it up -