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I've loved being part of #ImInWorkJeremy on Twitter over the past 24hrs. Thousands of posts and photos of those of us who already provide that elusive 7-day NHS service that Hunt believes we don't already have. But as many have said, he probably won't see any of it til Monday when he's back at work.

Jon passed a year ago today. Still very much in my thoughts and it still makes my heart sink when I see one of his posts on here, thinking about how he's gone too soon. Hope that wherever he is he can feel the love

Jules Bianchi has passed away following his crash last year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/33578770 RIP

Eid Mubarak to those of you to whom it applies. Eat, drink and be merry

Steffen is doing a charity night in my local in a couple of weeks time. Should be canny.

You sound really positive Stevie, and it's good to hear

Brilliant

You up in court like?

Stevie, a show is what you go and see at the theatre when there's singing and dancing involved. That thing you go to in Sunderland is the picshaz pet. You see fillims there, or mewvies.

Happy Birthday, ya filthy animal

Very well played MF, sir!

Going for afternoon tea at Jesmond Dene House this afternoon courtesy of our resident dictator (birthday present) and then straight into town for birthday drinks for my brother which he knows nothing about, and thinks we're all working As an added bonus, the bairn's sports day has been postponed. The 30 seconds where he's racing is canny but watching other people's kids running down a damp field for hours on end is just tedious.

That puts me in mind of our own manc-mag who fell asleep at the wheel driving back from a game and only woke up when he smashed into the central reservation on the A1. Luckily he's still here to tell the tale. I've no such drama, personally. The only thing I came close to was the IRA bombing in Manchester. I'd passed through the city centre about half an hour before the bomb went off on my way to my boyfriend's house. I remember hearing some kind of explosion as I got off the bus at his place about 7 miles away but only found out what had happened when my parents finally got in touch with me after various panicked calls to the nurses home I lived in at the time. The closest and most surreal experiences I've been party to is that of my cousin in the US. She works for American Express and was based in WTC at the time of the 9/11 attacks. She was meant to be at work that day but called in absent as her husband and 3 children all had a vomiting bug. Her husband, dad and brother all worked for United Airlines, Her husband was off sick, her brother was on a training thing in Dallas and her dad was piloting a plane from Boston Logan to Tokyo and was queued up on the runway at Logan when the first plane hit and he was turned back.

I sent a parcel over there a few weeks ago - standard first class via the post office and it got there in 6 days. Not sure what it's like sending stuff in the other direction though, but a month seems excessive.

This. I thought he was in his 80's when I was a kid! RIP though

Hasn't that got the permanently unfunny Miranda in it?

I prefer 'sensitive to meteorological extremes' (and really loud thunder)

Thanks to the super-duper mega glazing at work I managed to watch it without being totally freaked by the thunder. It was quite surreal the way the sky was completely purple with each lightning flash.

Hard as nails When we had the storm earlier today, one of mine managed to open one of the divan drawers under the bairns bed, climb in it and hide there until I was convinced she'd jumped out of the window and run away.

I'm watching from the 4th floor at work. Shitting myself as I'm phobic when it comes to thunder but the lightning is mental. That rain was mad too..

A slightly more imposing figure too Liam Brodie (GBR) about to start his 2nd round match soon if any of you working peeps want something to listen to.

The bairn has just wangled himself an extra 45mins after his bedtime as he started asking about the tennis scoring system. I was particularly proud when he got the tie-break principle on first explanation

Poor bastard. He'll freeze come Christmas

What's he protesting about? Loving this weather btw. I should definitely have been born in the Mediterranean. The cats and their fur coats, however, are huffing about like a pair of asthmatic pensioners