To be fair they look like they'd retail for £24.99 on Amazon. They also look tacky.

“Unlock the door.” “Me? How?” H/t Dave Allen

We filter our water (w. Glos) and the scummy stuff in the teapot increases as the filter gets towards the end of its time (🎻).

The new Forest of Dean Community Hospital near us, had half its roof redesigned to add a lot of extra filtration equipment. Building started in 2022, when a lot more was known about Covid transmission (which should have been blindingly obvious at the start).

Tsk! There was another one this morning. Actually sunny here this morning, after heavy rain a lot of the night. More cloud coming from the west, though,

He followed me too.

To be honest, the old cartoon referenced financial “irregularity” in the awarding of contracts to mates by councils. Probably particularly the northeast of England, possibly in the time of T. Dan Smith, John Poulson and Reginald Maudling.

Old Private Eye cartoon, relating to local councils, but whatevs. “That’s what elections are all about: giving the other side a turn to fiddle things.”

The Beeb keep plugging BBC Sounds for that. Which in its infant days (2006, if not earlier) was known as the less hip “Listen Again”.

And replicating the wet shirt scene in P & P.