Our no-mow front garden is at that stage where it honestly looks a bit of an eyesore. But it’s full of life. Loads of crickets, including one that was happily sunning itself on our front step.

Carrot Weather app now apparently getting into British politics.

I hope the trend continues, but that also requires Burnham to not be a colossal disappointment. Would be good to see more Con > LD and Ref > Lab, alongside Lab/Lib/Green again recognising the common threat. Also: yikes at the prediction from Election Maps UK on those numbers.

Or?

@hotelfred.bsky.social Got some gifts today from Mrs G and one was completing this set. A lovely bunch of books!

I do also rather like the smart glasses image I hacked together from a couple of stock images :D

Not overly early excited about the trend but it’s rare in this happy to see the kind of alert I got from Carrot earlier.

Just giving Sony a helping hand with its slogan.

:D I’m OK with mine.

Is the UK hot right now? not fucking around and just telling it like it is. istheukhotrightnow.com

That “better all-round service” involves giving yet another kicking to periodicals by reducing the number of second-class post days from six to three. Just watch: it’ll be two then one before long.

For south of England/SE Wales temperatures in late June, the figures shown here wouldn’t be great. But these are the current figures for how far above average each location is. And we’re not even having it as bad as France (yet) – although UK temps tend to peak in early evening.

At this, point, sure: why not? (For those who are unaware, this is the Carrot app being snarky, not the actual forecast!)

Idly wondering earlier if I could get the excellent I Am Level by Stew Hogarth (RIP) up and running on the Pocket 6. Yep! (Took about two minutes in all.)

Carrot Weather is just trolling at this point.

One cat can manage all three.

Would be… kind of nice if the DFE would issue some fuller guidance on safe temperatures for schooling at this point.

No.

This is fine dot gif

Here’s Weatherian multi-forecast for your neck of the woods. Met Office would be at the higher end of the numbers but not an outlier.

This is the Weatherian multi-forecast for where I live. (The low outlier is a Japanese model that I somehow doubt will turn out to be accurate.)

Rollercoaster from hell. (Met Office numbers are… less fun. So I’m pretending they don’t exist right now.)

The attached shows the stark difference. People with *full NM collections* of the UK and US runs begged Skybound to pause the project and get new art. But no. A bit of gaslighting and bullshit later and everyone got dross packaged as bling.

May and June where I live, as per istheukhotrightnow.com (Current anomaly is +5, apparently. Although that beats the +13 on the east cost, which is already tipping the temps towards or into the 30s.)

@iandunt.bsky.social Websites really are fucking hopeless sometimes.

OK, now I don’t want to make a single edit.

Bold claim in my upcoming column.

WRITING A THING. I am… slightly over the 600-word target.

Here’s Starmer on CSAM generator X arguing that kids need to be protected from online harms. (Also, notably, he says the ol’ “things were different when I was young” and mentions infinite scroll, which is actually something that might be good to go after tech companies for. Ban *that* instead.)