Meenzer

I say it every time and I will keep saying it every time: The Liz Truss line

I have hated you on that very stretch of road so very many times, and I've only been driving regularly for a year. Mind, those same Audi drivers get just as peeved about my little Hyundai i10 daring to be in the fast lane even when I'm going... fast. Poor wee boys.

Fond memories of Parky always saying "quantum easing" in politics threads when he meant "quantitative easing"

Surveyors ✅ So it turns out our new house has a quite obvious problem with the air quality - you feel it on your chest/in the back of your throat almost immediately, which is just terrific. What's annoying is (a) we apparently didn't pick up it on multiple viewings, and more pertinently (b) the surveyor didn't notice despite apparently doing his job properly. There are no signs of visible issues so it's presumably hidden mould under the bath or the floorboards or something and will no doubt be an absolute sod to fix. We're not due to move in for a little while yet, so we're airing the place like nobody's business (when it isn't raining 😕), have a stupidly expensive air purifier arriving tomorrow to at least hopefully make the rooms halfway livable at the expense of raised leccy bills, and the local flaky-but-nice plumber should be round on Monday to see if there's anything immediately obviously wrong that doesn't require ripping the place to pieces (or, indeed, that does). Fuck's sake. Anyone been in a similar position? All bright ideas gratefully accepted...

I was hoping that would just lead to a blank page, Len Shackleton-style.

Françoise Hardy

Who knew Sunderland and the Tories had so much in common.

You mean avant-garde. #FishedYourPost

Magnificent

Day trip from Glasgow on public transport so Arran's premier tourist attraction will have to wait until next time. With all the low cloud we might have driven straight past it without realising anyway...

In increasing order of severity...

Fairly sure this isn't the right technique

It probably says a lot that I could get a more or less guaranteed job as a language teacher and I'm not even considering it as my next career move. None of the teachers I know have anything good to say about the experience these days (though admittedly, some of them will say it's always been terrible )

That was about halfway up.

I don't know why you're laughing, Arran the other day was positively Mediterranean...

Honestly, I've been transferring sums this week for our imminent house purchase and even when you check absolutely every detail a million times before confirming, you find yourself thinking "yes, but a really clever scammer would do x, y and z to make this still seem legit" and you drive yourself mad with it - it's no wonder people end up losing money to these things, either through not paying due attention or just completely accidentally. Scary really. Very glad it's all worked out for her/you in the end.

A little less Project Santa, a little more Project Sacré-Cœur.

If the press gets to her she should say she just wants Farage to take his own advice and go back to where he came from

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ddlwj4y7vo

How do you feel about the witch from Granny's Garden?

Same

Never has any one piece of content on the internet been more specifically tailored to me

Wisbech! Did you see anyone with a full set of fingers, toes and teeth?