I've just been down an Olympics Black Power Salute rabbit hole. Think I'm correct in surmising that the salute itself would have been broadcast (in colour!) on BBC2 late on the night of 16th October 1968. And this is the Radio Times for that week

Perhaps Jim liked white sliced bread?

Esmé’s new spot for birdwatching

Gendarmes working hard fighting crime and issuing speeding tickets

Also took new Poc helmet for a test run (it’s destined for France). Also seemed fine

Might almost be England… except the road has tarmac on it #TdF2026

Walked 4.8km before it gets too hot. There was a pleasant breeze out there in the fields

From my morning walk. Farmer has ploughed up the footpath. Again

Shockingly early dinner tonight, to quiet the food noise. It’s chicken with rice with pepper and cucumber (cooked! Delicious) in a fish and soy sauce with mango on top. My one complaint is that my mango slicer is blunt, so it looks messy

Tonight’s dinner. Jake fillet with sweet potato and carrot “fries” home-made ketchup and “mushy peas” made with petits pois and yoghurt

Stealth helicopter on the way back from Silverstone. Black on black. Why so evil?

Watching #TDF2026 in the garden

It begins

*ahem* Hydration break

This is a bit of a heartbreaker. My Stressless recliner, which I’ve had for 30 years or so, has been living on borrowed time and finally died 😕 Amazing quality: 30 years! With moving parts. Unfortunately, can’t afford to replace it

Tonight’s dinner. Oven baked haddock with spicy lentils

Less than three months til the next volume of Kynaston

Tonight’s feast. Pork and mushrooms in oyster sauce with brown basmati. Quick to make and very nice

There’s a cloud with personality

Tonight’s early bird dinner. Home made 5% fat burger (yes it was a bit dry) with salad, a yoghurt sauce and home brew oven chips

26% of respondents hoping we do get another heatwave. Er, cool 🆒

Must be great up there in the breeze

At least the Labour party and left-leaning columnists will have learned the lesson of the Starmer era and stopped their infighting… oh.

The spam bots will never succeed unless they come up with more convincing human names Dewey Deloach was nicknamed Cockroach at school. Elsa Clem was Elsa Quim. Katrina was SoakUp, obvs, and Sonja Breshears was Sonja Billy Shears

Bought a new pannier in the week, for more efficient shopping. It had one job. But it failed at the most crucial point: thwhere it takes the weight of the bag on the bicycle rack. I got it back on and made it home, but it failed again as soon as I got there. Bad design. Returned

I’ve got the Rutles’ Living in Hope going round my head

It’s the veggie jambo layer

Veggie stir today. Another quick one

Air quality map in France. Looks like a giant rhubarb and custard sweet