Alex Marsh

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

Found in my dad's loft - guessing my grandmother was involved in delivering these. I don't tend to receive political leaflets through the door where I live - are they still like this?

Why does red tape always have to be 'slashed'? Why can't it just be cut, or removed, or painstakingly unpeeled?

Spent a couple of traumatic minutes considering this, and alighted on the opening titles of the BBCs adaptation of The Day of the Triffids. No idea whether it was particularly scary in itself but I just knew that something very bad was going to happen.

Mary Shithead United States, Census, 1950

[tractor/lorry passes, carrying hay bales] Me, pointing: Hey!!!

Some really interesting replies/quotes (I'd pick Harry Lime or Steerpike out of those mentioned.) But my top choice would be the truck in 'Duel'. Which I've never got over since I saw the film as a kid

Wrapping up my wife's birthday present and honestly this is set to rekindle our marriage.

Taken a step back from life to care for my dad, and it kills me that he can't remember his own amazing Tolkien story from the 1950s: being an office junior at Allen & Unwin when the first LOTR proofs came in, and poring over them with his colleagues in sheer wonder. What a moment, to see that first.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called McFly, You Fools

Anyone else staying up for the Russian election results? Gonna be a real nailbiter.

Going to upgrade all my tartan, to pay my respects.

Watching Bouchier and Dunkley run between the wickets is one of the most hair-raising things in cricket.

[spelling bee] JUDGE: your word is "redacted" KID: ████████ JUDGE: correct

Sat in a pavilion watching the rain

Guys, maybe make some time this evening to check up on your beloved celebrity neighbours

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

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Being swamped with scam robo-calls this morning. There's a little job for Andy Burnham.

Where's Enrico when you need him? #TheHundred

Keeping track of the Sandringham derby online. My son appears to have bowled well. Disappointing that the Play Cricket wagon wheel doesn't include the big tree inside the boundary.

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

Listening to Betjeman's Banana Blush at the bedside of my very, very old and poorly dad, and I'm in bits. What an utterly magnificent record.

Essex Police say it's my wife's turn to get the tea

My view possibly skewed by growing up drinking in villages with ruddy faced pillar of the community kindly uncle figure type landlords

Skipper smuggled out in the tea hamper

Celebrating their A-Level results. The Boy Collins did particularly well, and Banks Senior and Rutherford Minor have no cause for complaint.

Just a reminder that using dark glasses to watch the eclipse is woke, you should totally look directly at the sun to own the libs

Long shot they'll arrive on time, but ordered some solar eclipse glasses from Wildberries

Date night, and met up in Cambridge for an outdoor performance of Romeo and Juliet. My brilliant, but highly scientific -side-of-the-brain wife has just asked me what it's about.

Absolute thriller in the Women's One Day cup as Northumberland gasp over the line at Norfolk, 9 wickets down on the last ball of the 50.

Philip Brown's wonderfully constructed photo of Neil Williams bowling in the game between Warwickshire and Essex at Edgbaston in September 1996. Here he describes the way the shot came about - espn.com/cricket/stor...

Just used a system of jugs and child exploitation to lob my bathwater on the back lawn

In the 70s, there was a fad for iron-on t-shirts designs - branded images, or make-your-own kits with mixed images, letters, numbers, etc. A kid at my jnr school had a Goodies t-shirt that his mum had made with iron-on letters, but had spelled it Goodeys. He acquired the nickname Dim Brooke-Taylor.

Three was always better. Bill Oddie RIP.