Richard Francis

@linguafrancis

Data Architect, Coeliac and #LUFC Fan

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Richard Francis@linguafrancis· 3d

Oh bollocks - I loved this place. As a Coeliac it was just great to be able to pick up a menu and not scan through it filtering for the tiny (gf) markers. The food was always great too

A Message from The Oxford Place: It is with great regret that we have taken the decision to close the restaurant with immediate effect. We'd like to thank all our customers for your wonderful support throughout our time serving fine Gluten free dining. Dennis and the team.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· 6d

Love a Whicker idol

Image of Alan Whicker (from the past) holding a globe

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· 15d

Anyone else seen or heard this? #LUFC

Image of Gabi Gudmundsson saying he’s out for 6 months with a ruptured ACL

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· 15d

Some of them look like my cat’s Greek cousins

Pearl the cat, very much not being given little fishies and asking to speak to the manager about that

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· 21d

I've quite often felt like this in meetings - took me a while to figure out that 80% of the people in the room feel the same way.

Sesame Street's Big Bird (a massive yellow bird) attending a business meeting. He looks out of place because everyone else has a laptop and he just has a notepad.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· 24d

Hydration break #LUFC

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Jul 8

There’s worse places to while away an evening. Still fucking hot though

Puerto Pollenca town square in the early evening. The sun is breaking through the trees

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Jun 28

Hydration break

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Jun 27

Hydration break

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Jun 27

Don’t eat it all at once

A single M&S ham and mustard crisp in a white bowl

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Jun 27

Hydration break

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Jun 21

Hydration break

An drawing of a man lying flat on his back in the shower, legs lifted with his feet near his face letting the shower water cleanse his arse

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Jun 6

Still from Alan Partridge showing his fan Jed with a tattoo of Alan’s face across his chest and abdomen

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· May 26

Come on people - we can do this. Hang on - I’m getting word that this isn’t a good thing

Screen capture of the BBC website with the headline “Hottest May Day record could be broken again in UK as mid-morning temperature hits 30C”

Probably an indication of how screwed we all are from climate change.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· May 25

Well, she’s given it a little try.

Pearl the (mostly white with tabby patches) cat finally enjoying her cooling matt

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· May 9

For example:

Screen capture of a Guardian article by Keir Starmer saying that the local election results will not cause Labour to tack left or right

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Apr 25

Still, who would have expected Farage to come out so strongly against retirees?

Farage tweet saying that the big divide in Britain is between those who work and those who don’t. He goes on to say that he’s on the side of those who set their alarm and go to work, like a latter day Nick Clegg.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Apr 2

Got to hand it to Carol - that’s a hell of an exit

The Artemis rocket launches with a chyron below that says: Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood leaves BBC after 28 years.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Mar 28

Shouldn’t have drunk all of daddy’s beer

Image says:

Top headlines

Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Mar 21

Meanwhile, in Valencia… #LUFC

Screenshot showing Seville 0: 2 Valencia

Largie Ramazani has scored the second goal

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Mar 11

Pearl the cat being an idiot and sticking her head in a bowl

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Mar 7

Image of Gary Neville on Sky Sports with a caption saying “That’s a bad one”

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Feb 27

Getting on with the hard yards of turning Labour’s fortunes around after pulling every lever and straining every sinew to put Labour in this position.

Image reads:

Sir Keir had entered the Gorton campaign in a vulnerable position, amid dreadful poll ratings and a damaging series of policy U-turns in recent months that have prompted some Labour MPs to openly question his leadership.

Speaking after the result, he pledged to "keep on fighting", insisting he was "getting on with the hard yards" of turning Labour's fortunes around.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Feb 26

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Feb 22

Maybe we should stop picking batsmen whose surnames start with B?

Image shows Englands dismissed batters so far this morning with the score at the fall of wicket. Buttler (16-1), Bethell (32-2), Banton (49-3) and Brook (68-4)

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Feb 20

My wife reminded me of this farcical attempt to rehabilitate Andrew’s reputation from a few years ago. I’d imagine the small dog would like to disassociate himself from Andrew these days

Prince Andrew has had very little positive publicity in recent months so I thought I’d contribute a snippet. I picked this up in Scotland over the weekend and my source, who shall be nameless, is impeccable — indeed was present.

While in the Highlands, Andrew rescued a dog. It happened like this. The prince was attending a reception in an upper storey of a castle. A small dog was also present. The dog, excited by the sound of royal security hounds barking on the drive beneath the window, ran at the open window and, teetering on the window-ledge, looked about to lose his footing and fall to earth many storeys below. Other guests noticed but Andrew acted. He rushed to the window, grabbed the little dog just in time and brought him cradled in his arms to safety.

OK, it wasn’t a fair maiden and there were no dragons but it’s a heart-warming tale of sympathy and quick-thinking — and, for Prince Andrew, every little helps.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Feb 16

Let’s see your profile pic in its full-size glory.

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Feb 16

It’s not really - the only group almost as leftwing as young women is young men. This is from YouGov last month

Richard Francis@linguafrancis· Feb 14

Anyone want to buy one of my anti-aging biros?