Bellend Sebastian

Just relieved that my wife managing to get her car MOT'd at the last minute didn't turn out to be a waste of time

Now to get back to the important stuff, like saying windmills give you cancer etc

At least he's getting rid of all that woke stuff

Probably time to release the Epstein files in an effort to distract from how mental he is

I always drive to Tesco to sit and place my online food delivery order, it gets me in the mood, and if I forget what I need I can simply walk around the store to remind myself of what's available

Petrol stations are literally running out of petrol but that's not stopping people sitting in car parks with their engine running for no obvious reason

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Always been an imperial man (no pics of Darth Vader please) although I generally run either 3.11 miles (5k) or 6.23 (10k). My head is completely in minutes per mile, minutes per km means nothing to me. My number came through yesterday for the (Abbey Park) Leicester Big 10k, which I was alarmed is in just 2 Sundays' time. As I booked it while getting my breath back after the last one I have a hilariously low number, so run the risk of being mistaken for all elite athlete - until I actually start running

That's very impressive. Naturally they've stopped making them, can't have stuff lasting that long!

If I'd paid 20 quid for mine I wouldn't be moaning. They were £90, which I know is still cheap in earbuds land but it's a lot to be forking out every 18 months

How long do folk get out of a pair of wireless earbuds, lifespan wise? I was cynical about how long they would last, and more than a little resentful about basically being forced to ditch wired ones, and my fears have come to pass, with one of mine lasting less than 45 minutes before running out of juice, 18 months after purchase, so will probably have to be binned within a few weeks. In common with all the major manufacturers, they only have a 1 year warranty that doesn't suggest to me any expectation of longevity. What's typical before they need to be replaced? 2 years? 3 years? I got 5 years out of my last pair of wired soundmagics, they cost a third of these bloody things and sounded better

Very good, but they need to update it with being made to buy an electric vehicle, banning log burners and those ruddy bloody flags if my Facebook feed is anything to go by

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I somehow got it in 3 but even as I typed it in I was wondering is this even a word? Dredged up from some long neglected part of my brain. It will probably be something much easier today, that naturally I will struggle with

Nobel Prize back on then

Having recently helped my wife with hers I think, given what you've said about your circumstances, it's worth having a go yourself. As everything you've mentioned is either income or interest it should be pretty straightforward, and whilst some of the return is worded slightly technically, it's not that bad and there's nothing you wouldn't get a straightforward layman's explanation for it if you Google it (frequently from the HMRC website itself)

Not resorting to that just yet. Hung some old CDRs with scary yellow eyes painted on them from the branches of the trees next to the pond last night, to absolutely zero effect as the heron was stood by the pond when I got up. I've therefore ordered a traditional plastic replica heron, which can supposedly be effective particularly if you reposition it regularly as herons are apparently quite intelligent and can work out if they're being had. Also, if the real heron has amorous intentions towards the replica one, it may give me an opportunity to sneak up on it and twat it with a hammer while it's distracted, or at least attach an envelope to it containing an essay in which I attempt to persuade it to mend its ways, I dunno, I'm not Attenborough. I think the heron may be a dunce anyway as it turns out it has failed to catch at least 3 of the 4 fish I am vaguely bothered about, they are just really good at hiding, so with that in mind I've fashioned them a special hiding cave from an upturned plant basket with a hole cut in the side and some stones on top to stop it floating

Cheeky sod was back again this evening. At least one fish has survived, but for how long? I give him until tomorrow

Bastard heron's had all my fish innit

I'm struggling to imagine having anything other than full electric again. Did a 270 mile round trip in it the other day and while I don't think it would have made it on one charge (I wasn't driving particularly conservatively) I topped up on a fast charger at the services and that took about 15 minutes, and got home with about 70 miles to spare. It's just not a big deal is it? Still the case that the numbers don't stack up if you can't charge at home, but for everyone else it can work and work well

Anyone listened to Morrissey's new album yet? I have, although not enough to say whether it's any good, although I'm reasonably confident that it's not as bad as a lot of the reviews suggest it is. At least a few of the tracks are great. Journalists have been reviewing him as a person rather than the records since the early 90s which I used to think was very unfair, but in recent years he's done nothing to help that AT ALL

Telegraph admonished by press regulator for publishing total bollocks: https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/telegraph-declines-to-tell-regulator-how-fake-banker-story-got-published/ I've full confidence that they won't do that again

I preferred it when it was grown men riding round the estates on tiny motorcycles, like a bear in a Russian circus

Underrated post, this