Google Maps seems to disagree with that statement.

Ollie is 10 today. He's hoping his birthday cake is as huge as the big straw bale. #Dogs

Time and again at local and national government levels Reform has done things without doing basic research. Here's the result of a Google search asking how many native languages we have. One result puts it at 17. Under Reform's ammendment Sinn Féin couldn't even put its party name on its pamphlets.

I'd say a proper installed AC system would have trouble cooling a room by 17° "in minutes", never mind a cheap thing the size of a small biscuit tin. If AC can be that compact why does a car need all this stuff.

You need a bag of these.

Was surprised to see that even Restore Britain has failed to fall for Farage's stunt. Lowe was scathing on Facebook. (First time I've agreed with him.)

Only way they'll stop bridge bashing is to invest in new bridges tall enough for everything to get under. The Ely bridge pictured in the article even has sensors which trigger flashing lights and illuminated warning signs when they detect over height vehicles, and it still gets hit.

You can tell he's city centric. Many rural postcode are already growing as much as they can.

No wonder Badenoch's MPs think it's OK to use language like this, then.

Oh good, it's only going to feel like 31° for the next couple of hours.

"Why are we out an hour early?" asks Ollie. Because it's already 25°C at 7am. Daily record breaking heat isn't funny.

Rental companies are unlikely to disable the speed limiters on them.

Opium poppies are common here in the Fens as people drank poppy tea to relieve the ague (malaria), which is thought to be why outsiders thought fen people strange. Here are some growing with wild poppies. I wondered if the white ones might by a hybrid.

Not seen white wild poppies until today and always thought they were a myth. But these were alone in a field covered with the usual red ones and are definitely not cultivated (opium) poppies which don't have fern-like leaves.

The covers on that series of Wyndham books are weird. Have you seen this one for The Midwich Cuckoos with an American cuckoo perched on someone's ear? The artist's (if there was one) idea of a Triffid seems to have been a decorative form of bamboo that invades shirts.

I kept my X account open mainly for things like finding out where Parcelfarce had dumped our parcels. But I can no longer support a platform used by its warped owner to post misinformation on the UK and promote those inciting hate riots, so I've closed the account. Hope our Government does the same.

Why do they go for socks? It can't just be smelly feet because our spaniel Ollie will grab and guard any socks you drop while unloading the washing machine or dryer. He doesn't damage them, just leaves them covered in dog slobber so they need rewashing. (This is known as an Ollied Sock.)

Surely you'd use a Reform food processor.

We had little rain in April and May but it's rained every day this week, sometimes very hard, yet this is what our soil looks like tonight. We live in the Suffolk Fens, which were once wetlands.

We've been seeing a few painted lady butterflies around in Suffolk, west of Mildenhall, but this morning every bramble patch beside ½mi of drove road was covered with them. This video doesn't do them justice as there were thousands. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

Must admit I prefer the simplicity of a wild rose. The hazel behind them was bought at Peckover House, to see if it coped with our Fen soil, and has grown well.

Just found a pic of Jammy after self cooling in a muddy ditch. He's wearing the coat because he had arthritis in his backbone, not that that stopped his swimming.

If you're travelling this bank holiday don't pay rip off #fuelprices at trunk road filling stations. Use a fuel price app like Fuel Map to find lower prices nearby. This is the A11 where the cheapest of 3 stations at Fiveways Roundabout is 189.9p but the indie Jet 1½mi away is 182.9.

Looks like Reform will be able to force through anything they want in Suffolk, having taken 41 of 70 seats. Greens second with 13 then Tories, who ran the county, with 9. Hope Reform now has its traditional exodus of new councillors as they discover it involves work and they can't deport anyone.

It's odd that they banned plastic straws for being harmful to the environment but you can still buy big plastic bags, filled with helium and on plastic strings to release into the world where they'll come down in inaccessible places to become a risk to wildlife.

Seem to be a lot of people commenting on the Golders Green stabbings in ways that could be considered contempt of court. Think twice about what you post.

As the mayflowers are definitely out it must now be safe to cast our clouts, as they say in Yorkshire. Aptly, today is #WorldNakedGardeningDay though it may still be a bit chilly to cast *all* your clouts outdoors.

Get one of these JVC radio alarms from Curry's. The radio comes on very quietly then the volume gradually increases to your set max. Very civilised alarm.