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For ludicrous prices and non-existant service, Gordon Ramsey's gets the biscuit, or rather doesn't, because it would never arrive .

Spiked says: "What a thing of beauty that Israel beat Ireland in Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest. That Israel’s serene songstress, Eden Golan, got more points than Ireland’s warbling, gurning, pseudo-Satanic they / them, Bambie Thug. That an actually decent song trumped the caterwauling of a fake...

We'd have invited you to lunch had we known you were here. Now other plans. Friends coming to lunch instead. Then me off to Paris. Back Saturday night. Free for lunch Sunday !

Rain clearing at 13:00.
Wednesday cloudy 19°.
Girona used to be lovely but our favourite restaurants have all closed.

The only song worth saving to my car's drive was the one our friend wrote, German entry, sung by Isaak, the only normal person there.

Watching episode three of Diddly Squat Farm. Why do sows occasionally eat their new-born ?

Raining here. Tumble dryer on black wash on separate cct as it trips the LCB on the main one.

Ever since watching "Jaws" I am reluctant to scatter fish food over the goldfish tank. One never knows ...

Utterly mad ! New York CNN — Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall. Ford, like most automakers, ha...

Hola from overcast Catalunia, waiting for a Coronal Mass Ejection Event, or failing that a nice cup of Yorkshire Tea.

TV News Banner: thieves stole railway cables overnight, paralysing the entire Catalan RENFE train system. RENFE advises using alternative methods of transport.

Slept to after eight ack Emma. Unbelievable. Sun now streaming in bedroom windy.

Watched part of the Eurovision Song Contest as a friend wrote one of the songs. They only came in 12th, possibly because the singer is male, heterosexual, married with children, was not partially nude, doesn't practice witchcraft and didn't scream and rant. The winners, whoever they were, grabbed th...

From Wednesday May 8th:

"Mrs OFSO has bought some strange pot plants for our terrace. Big menacing things. Can't see a stinger (yet) but I think they are triffids. I shall avoid watching the next meteor shower..."

.......and possibly tonight's Aurora Borealis !

Many years ago a neighbour of a friend went round the bend and disappeared for weeks leaving her front door open. Nothing was ever stolen from the house.

I'm sure she has a Persilschein.

Interesting that HMRC has all my bank details for PAYMENTS on record, but having just informed me I'm due for a sizeable refund, they have no idea where to send it so I need to enter the same bank details.....
and tick the box for interest to be paid ....

According to the news one could see the Aurora Borealis from here last night, if there wasn't a whopping great 1500' mountain to the north of our yard.

Shopping after gym. Roads at near standstill as if it were July or August, not early May. France must be empty as blighters are all down here. Hot sun with cold wind.

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after smashing the case around the Magna Carta at the British Library. Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher, targeted the glass enclosure around the historic document on Friday. The pair then held up a sign reading "T...