So my cunning “Ali plan”, set in motion all those years ago, has been scuppered by Ali’s own porky pies. Funny really - sometimes the universe has a wicked sense of humour. Don’t you just love it when a plan doesn’t quite come together?

Bloody neighbours, tearing around off-road again… Although, to be fair, when you live in the middle of farmland, “off-road” is basically just “the scenic route.” 😂 ❤️

So reform party of the people are frightened of the people. Reminds me of the events leading up to the murder of Jo Cox.

I will always have fond memories of when Ann Widdicoombe championed taking a dump in the middle of the street while standing up. Nigel clearly thinks he’s produced something monumental.

Put simply, a rainbow forms where that cone of light intersects a sheet of raindrops. The Earth then obstructs the lower part, which is why from the ground we usuallyo see just an arc instead of a full circle.

The maths is how three things interact: 1 a cone of light c42 degrees subject”s line of sight, 2 the Earth behaves like a sphere and blocks the lower portion at the horizon, 3 Distance to the raindrops, determines how large the rainbow appears.

I try 😂. The trouble is my ramblings tend to disappear into the void before many people get to them. I reckon my next band should be called The Irrelevant Prophets 😂 - delivering messages nobody asked for to audiences that may or may not exist. 😄

Build the impressive destination, connect it to mass transport, and you make future tourism possible without choking the place with cars. The posh building gets the visitors; the railway absorbs the traffic. That is planning with its head screwed on.

That is the question historians ponder over. Why so many grand civic and cultural buildings were placed next to local train stations. It was not just architectural showing off, though there was plenty of that. It was policy foresight.

Tom Petty

This is genuinely irritating. Are we really pretending no one’s noticed that a 45-degree rotation makes it a Nazi symbol? It’s not exactly obscure. And verifying his affiliations shouldn’t require a team of forensic analysts either.

what a great Eurovision yet again .. music culture together

It does highlight how insular politicians can become. Maybe it’s the natural hierarchy of loyalty: self, party, country lower in the list. Every cloud. The nylon Union Flag, skid-marked Y-front, nicotine-stained, halitosis-powered movement might finally do more for PR than decades of debate.

Technically it isn’t illegal. It just wasn’t declared properly. Crypto is well dodgy. I sketched out for my own benefit how it works.

I’ve been giving this crypto business some thought and landed on this—straight, no emotion, just how it works. I have two images. Modern and renaissance steampunk inspired.

Bit annoying, but fair play—you’ve landed a couple of decent variants there. I wouldn’t have pulled that off.

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There could be some merit in it—particularly if Brectumists and Retardists decide to stick two fingers up to Isaac Newton and launch themselves headfirst off a tall crane into an abandoned gravel pit.

Got it done in four. I’ve kicked off Pal Participation Play so we can both take part - how does 5 each sound? (7+4)/2 = 5.5, rounded down = 5

On the UK full control without consistent direction. * Marx would say: power hasn’t shifted * Hayek would say: the rules aren’t stable enough * Keynes would say: the levers exist but aren’t used well enough

On the EU not a bad idea, just not fully built. * Karl Marx: power hasn’t really shifted—capital still calls most of the shots * Friedrich Hayek: there’s a risk too much control ends up in the centre * John Maynard Keynes: it’s missing the tools to deal properly with shocks

The main economic theories * Marx solves inequality but breaks coordination * Hayek solves coordination but breaks fairness and stability * Keynes stabilises the system—but relies on institutions behaving well over time UK is a case in point. Paralytic on Kool Aid, Gorged on Greed.

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There’s a kind of wide-eyed certainty to it all—earnest, but not especially tested. You can see the appeal. It’s tidy, reassuring, and easy to follow. A constructed fantasy—more hopeful than grounded—fine for storytelling, less so for anything that has to stand up to scrutiny or carry real weight.

I once managed to wedge a dumper truck into a similar spot—outside, neatly between two stacks of ballast. Thankfully we had a lorry-mounted crane to hand, so we simply lifted it out vertically and pretended it was all part of the plan.

To help Catie. The formula professional giraffe bi-sectionists use is 👇

Art: Kamal Sharaf (Yemen)

A few days in Wales, saying goodbye to MIL by scattering her ashes at her favourite beach—out to sea. alternative reality is the dog’s a bit unsettled after it all. Rest in peace, Flo.