Joking aside the trench scene is brilliantly edited, still really gripping even though I know the outcome. The lighting in the cockpits etc is really well done too

When's the taste off I got one from Selby today

Saw one of these delivery bots round here for the first time yesterday, perfect for the lazy gets who can't be arsed walking to the chippy

Watching a New Hope : insights so far the interior of the Jawa crawler seems to be a 70's Brutalist car park . Don Henderson plays General Taggi as if he is an angry cockney gangster/corrupt local politician from the Sweeney

Tricky to wrap but nicer than a box of New Berry Fruits

You'd think there'd be space for a Gimlet

Well my travels today have reconfirmed that one of the key priorities for "Andy" Burnham's so called government should be to put into a law a legally binding definition as to what constitutes a "Farmers Market".

"they do teas and coffees in the side chapel , cathedrals are hard on the feet, I had a toasted fruit tea cake R had a brownie, which was drier than the NYRB ..."

Other profane pursuits in the nave

In the Abbey they are setting up for the Beatles by Candlelight... how I long for yesterday

Grey meat ahoy !

Older England: "I always say my East window has all the *exuberance* of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period"

I think Newsnight platforming and lib-washing bigots etc, giving them clippable content endorsed by BBC is one the biggest failings of BBC news. I gave up on Newsnight, it's glib and pointless

Isn't she just perfect, so dry

Slainté! An Autumnal Godfather