Plastic food containers are like socks - it's often hard to find a matching pair. I've just spent half an hour sorting all of mine out (containers, not socks). I can't see my neat arrangement of them all on the shelf lasting for more than about a week, though...

An excellent point! Truth is that policing tweets is an easy gig for police: they have the evidence 'in the bag' without even needing to leave HQ. Far easier than the actual detective work real crimes require.

Well, I just got the Government's 'secure alert' on my phone. It woke the cats up!

A teacher friend of mine says that 30% of her students have serious mental health issues and are at risk of self-harm and/or suicide. It has not always been so, and it seems to me that something has gone very wrong with childhood and society for this to be the case today.

And there is no word for a government which colludes in the mass rape of its country’s daughters

Commiserations to those teachers having to return to work tomorrow after the 6 week break. I used to detest the 2-3 days of boring meetings in September and would have preferred to teach. My only comfort was that the poor children have to suffer the same thing all year round.

@IainSankey They're displayed well but curiously without ceremony, so it's like, oh, there's The Sunflowers, there's The Potato Eaters and so on

Just dropped the car off at the garage for its MOT. I walked back home across Peckham Rye and it was such a beautiful morning, I took a couple of photos. You really would not think that you were in 'Inner' London.

My desk fan is behaving oddly. When I switch it on, it hums, but the blades do not turn until I start them turning manually. Then, after a few rotations, the motor seems to pick up and it begins working normally. Can any clever person out there explain this, please?

This was delivered today. No, it's not a vacuum packed exotic seaweed from a delicatessan, but two pairs of winter socks. The packaging is quite extraordinary... 😲

Exhausted after a night of mouse hunting in the garden, Luna is taking things easy at the moment, using one of her forepaws to block out the light. Her diet appears to be working as she looks a lot slimmer than she did when she weighed 7.2 kg.

Connections Puzzle #805 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 😀

The key to my central heating boiler, which is required to adjust the pressure, has unaccountably gone missing after 14 years of always being faithfully returned to its bracket after use. I'm totally perplexed. Does this kind of thing happen to anyone else, or is it just me? 😱

My great-grandmother, Elizabeth Isdale Fraser (née Stuart) who lived in Aucterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Pictured here with one of the family's cows in about 1895. She lived from 1861 to 1952, so I missed knowing her by 6 years, sadly.

Simple yes or no: Do you feel we have 'two-tier' justice in the UK under Keir Starmer's government?

Just back from a lovely few days at Kessingland Beach in Suffolk. The weather was beautiful: sunny and warm, but not too hot. Many of the pubs in the area are really superb, so I've had lots of excellent meals as well as beautiful walks in the fresh air.

https://t.co/Ej7vXR2cz9 I'm starting to think that any time a western political party gets anywhere close to power, their leading members are forcibly lobotomised by some unknown secret organisation.

It would be easier to contact the dead than to talk to a human being at Southwark Council Services. I've just tried, and their telephone options are all recorded messages referring me to their website, which simply consigns one to a Byzantine series of irrelevant headings. 🙄

As I feared, that local car journey the other day cost me dearly. Had I driven past the school 9 minutes later, there would be no charge. It was also the last day of term, so doubly ironic. So annoying, and I'm cross with myself for forgetting. The warning sign is tiny, too.

Just drove past my local primary school, thinking it was past 9.15 and that they were on their summer holidays anyway. Saw some parents hanging around outside and started to worry. Sure enough, it's the last day of term and it was 9.05. I will now be fined £100! 😭