Alex

My grandad was from Devon and was a Plymouth fan 😎

A Nobel pursuit.

The Nexus ‘Pop’ app gives real time updates. It doesn’t let you use it instead of a Pop Card via your phone or let you top up your pop card though. Like you’ve been able to do in London for ages. Presumably that’s coming some time in the 2030s

Not saying the metro is a fucking joke or anything. But, having just arrived at the central from York, I realise on checking the app I’d just missed one to the coast. Anyway, I had enough time to comfortably (ie with nearly 10 mins to spare) walk to fucking Jesmond station in time to catch the next one. All with no disruption being reported (bar the ‘fleet availability’ patter*) at tye ungodly hour of 5:45pm on a Friday. *is probably actually driver availability and can you really count a daily occurrence as disruption to the norm? FUCK RIGHT OFF

Like most people I would imagine

That’s depressing isn’t it? Because he’ll have been on good money as well

Re:careers. It’s weird how people end up in certain ones. We had a work thing where I used to work at the real tennis court at Jesmond Dene. We’d done a website for them. Anyway, the pro that was there actually lived in the little cottage next door with his family. He’d left his previous job at Cambridge university. He’d been there for about 25 years but was still the least senior of the 3 pros there. He wasn’t posh and had somehow gotten into the sport rather than being a Cambridge University graduate. The place, though a lush old building with loads of Victorian features was dropping to bits. The members seemed to be middle aged doctors and the like. The bloke who was the pro seemed to have relocated due to him being able to live next door free of charge gor the duration of his employment there. There seemed to be absolutely no money in it. I just found it a really bizarre career choice. Almost as bizarre as the rules of the actual game. Good luck to him, he was a canny lad and everything but really?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-peterborough-hub-officially-opened-as-part-of-120-million-investment

Actually I’m pretty sure there’s one of the places for growth / government hubs in Peterborough

I was going to mention the civil service but, whilst it’s worked out ok so far and I’ve managed to reinvent myself to a degree, I’m not sure I can actually bring myself to recommend it

Not exactly reliable sources and it doesn’t seem likely. I think he’s decent but I could only see us signing a definite upgrade on Pope and probably not in the next couple of windows either.

It didn’t stop Gemmill passing

#Wynning

My lass just keeps buying mugs. She has a particular liking for Emma Bridgwater ones. When they’re all washed there’s not enough room in the fucking cupboard for them all. Oh, and my Father’s Day present (allegedly off the kids) :

That, on the other hand, just gets better and better

That too

Jewels remain still cleaming

How’s the slum landlord business, did you say?

He is but he’s happy enough to serve as a minister in this administration. That should tell you everything you need to know. At this point it’s a case of his being marginally less of a cunt than some of the others.

Seen that loads of times and it somehow gets worse every time

I also like the way there’s loads of people arguing that NOT voting to change the rules is corruption, cheating etc. How the fuck does that work exactly? Whereas a temporary rule change cooked up by the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal, specifically targeting one club / a direct rival is all perfectly above board?

Turtle shite , more like

Serves the mackems right for getting all excited about this happening before the vote itself. Just as well they aren’t bothered about us. Imagine the reaction if they were

Big fuck off to Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal. Which is nice. Schism in the so-called big 6, which is equally nice.