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Rather splendid wedding car

Why does Iran constanly guff on about destroying Israel? If you're serious about doing something that dreadful and ambitious, you keep quiet about it till you're ready to go, don't you?

Went to a wedding on Saturday, no photographer, but a WhatsApp group for guests to share photos. Not a bad idea, saves time and money, and the happy couple have hundreds of pictures to choose from for an album

Why can you no longer buy half a cucumber?

Terry Riley, 90 today, I remember buying "Rainbow in Curved Air" when I was about 16!

Is there anything as good as Sibelius 5th Symphony?

Listening to Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 earlier in the car, and the Tom Waits version of Gavin Bryars' "Jesus Blood" has me in tears.

A problem with caring for someone with severe disabilities is that kind people do puzzles, buy things, cook things, get stuff ready to do, have lots of fun, smile, and leave. Then it all has to be sorted, returned or thrown away, just more jobs for me. It ain't easy.

Public transport sometimes works! On time GWR Taunton-Paddington, Elizabeth Line (my 1st time, very good) to Farringdon, straight on Thameslink to Luton Airport Parkway, smart new Metro to airport, home to terminal in just over 3 hours, no delays, no overcrowding.

Arrived in a very wet Warsaw, so getting wet inside

Can't argue with £3 for scrambled eggs and coffee in an old style "Milk Bar" in Central Warsaw

Reduced price for pensioners in Royal Castle, Warsaw, but not for Brits, cos of #Brexit, another win, next museum I'll pretend I'm French

One for Elena de la Quintaine Chopin's last piano, Pleyel, 1840s

Warsaw in 1945 is sadly reminiscent of Gaza in 2025

Stumbled over this piece of history down a nondescript street #Warsaw

The Palace of Culture and Science

I understand that Rod Stewart and Neil Young at #GlastonburyFestival were respectively either crap or brilliant, depending on your political preferences, rather than the quality of their performance, is that about right?

Twitter now seems to be mostly Rupert Lowe, I don't follow him or even read his stuff, but it is everywhere

Surprised that anyone is Surprised by #TheSaltPath revelations. I was sure the house repo story in chapter 1 was well dodgy, and suspected the whole book after that

Virgin Cross Country out of Bristol heading south, rammed at lunchtime on Monday, standing by the out of service loo, melting, bloody dire