I think they’d have been steeply across the back wall with a 90 degree turn at the bottom. Door to a storage space in what is now the shower room.

Decidedly nicer than this in the 1975 Vogue Sewing Book on making sure shirts and trousers fit.

This is why we say long teen btw. Credit to the original artist if I can ever track them down.

No. He didn’t plead guilty until his plea hearing. So the police had to gather enough evidence to convince the CPS they had a case. Had he plead innocent it would have been another two years wait, based on current waits for a court session.

Same junction, a few days earlier. Note how much easier getting through is because the boxes are clear. Disclosure: this was later in the day but that doesn’t actually matter. Oh, and cars may want to do this at this junction too.

Why people shouldn’t block the yellow boxes. First in an occasional series. No idea why my bike clicks when freewheeling. Probably because the chain guard is held on with string tbh.

Anyway, glad to see America has embraced the great British tradition of shoddy “experiences”.

Here’s the Met Office prediction for today (amber zone). The temperature doesn’t drop much but the RH is due to be much more variable and, importantly, lower. If it does hit the 40s that’s your “dry heat”.

Go back to the heat index. That temp and that RH has a heat index of 76. Very firmly in the red zone. That’s “heat stroke imminent”. Only when I was in the chamber, I could leave. I did no more than five minutes in those conditions. When outside is even hotter? There’s nowhere to go. 9/10

I used to get out of that chamber so fast. I’d need a glass of water and a rest before I toddled back to the office with my box of salts. Today, in the amber zone, it reached 38C outside, and an average RH of 83%. 8/10

After all that fear a few months ago, Buffy is now back to her full self. She’s also very fond of her cushion in the conservatory. #ProofOfCat

I feel like this is a badge of honour. I mean, I am poorly disposed to productive conversations but not just about AI.

Where cat gone?

On Friday a red Microlino parked up outside ours during the school run. A big bearded dude got out and fetched his kid(s). *Everyone* passing was cooing over the car. That man was clearly not so insecure in his masculinity that he needed to drive some cod military nonsense.

Great piece on the context for Rivals.

“A person that does not sleep much” is adorable as a label.

I’d found my plant in week 3 too disappointing so didn’t do the apple. Until today. #OliveArtClub

Ha! I immediately thought of Hel Reynolds’ many cartoons.

A very rare - for me - full green grid on cluesbysam.com

18/n The Year of the Rat by Harry Shukman. A year undercover in the British far right, this goes from small groups of lonely men in pubs through doorstep campaigns, a camping trip and far right influencers with self-proclaimed connections in high places. Grim but fascinating.

One story I love about Anthony Head is that he heard how badly James Marsters said “bollocks” and started tutoring him so that Spike’s accent wasn’t totally dreadful.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

17/n The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes by June Thomson. They’re not his journals but Watson’s. Lovely framing conceit for straightforward Holmes cases. Also, a theory about Watson’s second wife.

16/n Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon. Some fascinating essays on the tensions that existing in reading and writing, and in stories generally.

This Trans Pride protest against the EHRC guidelines is next Sunday, if you are near Exeter and want to show your support. Even if you can only make it for half an hour.

A huge thank you to @spinkysmama.bsky.social and husband for letting us roll into theirs at 11 last night after going to the Mitski gig at RAH.

Back reading Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon and damn if this doesn’t hit even harder now than when he wrote it in 2008.

#OliveArtClub. 15 mins with an inkgel pen and an HB pencil. Drawn on 19 May while cooking tea.

Pencil, watercolour pencil and white acrylic on paper. About 50 minutes. I’ve been a bit realistic just to start getting my observation skills in. #OliveArt