“The nights are quiet in Tehran”
Ahh oh dear
07.03.2026 13:26
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“The nights are quiet in Tehran”
Ahh oh dear
Thankfully all my bastard children were born after 2005. (And, tbf, to a UK national mother)
Most of my own jokes are some linear combination of funny and not funny.
Our book club alternates monthly between fiction and nonfiction and almost all the nonfiction books are panned by us for being too strung out
The best Chas and Dave song, and justifiably their biggest hit
I'm grateful that my kids' school doesn't do the dress-up thing, but does activities directly involving books ☺️
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Sort of nice that they are realising they shouldn’t be accessing taxpayer-funded services. Like evacuation.
With the recent news, I had to check, re Nuclear spot-the-differece #8, that Bill Gelletly is okay (he is - we were in a meeting together today) blogoftheisotopes.blogspot.com/search/label...
Upcoming round in music league game set up my my 18yo is “songs by people not known as musicians”. Hard to come up with something non-awful, but maybe awful is the subtext of this round
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
I hear that all but one person in Hormuz is gay
Anyone want my BrewDog share certificate?
News story about a university professor scratching graffiti into cars while dressed in underpants and a suit jacket
There but for the grace of god
Just got my hair cut. My barber should have been back in Kurdistan for a visit to relatives, but of course his flight is cancelled.
DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...
Nick Clegg wondering if there is a lower-ranked deputy Ayatollah role to go for
Gay, Lake Superior
1953 - US and UK toppled democratically elected Iranian government - for oil.
"The Shah quickly returned to take power and signed over forty percent of Iran’s oil fields to U.S. companies."
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Pat Summitt fans might have something to say about the statement!
I had no idea Kenwood was founded by Ken Wood.
Blue plaque for Kenneth Wood
But I did discover a real blue plaque a few doors away from Pizza Express. On what is now a Kwik Fit stood the original site of the Kenwood company, maker of kitchen equipment.
Greenery with a couple of skyscrapers visible in the near distance
… and a view of Woking’s tall buildings through the foliage.
House nameplate saying “Little Gumnuts”
… and a house with a weakly abusive name …
White blossom
Joking aside, I enjoyed my visit. I was taking my daughter’s clarinet for a service and got to enjoy some out of the way places. A road with some nice blossom …
Woking pizza express
A couple of hours to kill in Woking so figured I’d look for the blue plaques
bar chart with reflection symmetry
My Wordle win distribution is now completely symmetrical (modulo the cutoff at 6 guesses)
