I had been working from home since Tuesday thanks to Covid. Yes, was unable to do any work (and neither was anyone in the office anyway). At least it meant me and my girlfriend were able to go out properly for the first time since Monday, if only for a bit of shopping and Costa.

EDIT: I should add ...

Spambots might be getting smarter but even I can tell that’s an AI rewritten post

I think the Simply Food name was replaced by Foodhall a few years ago.

It wasn't a very surprising result really, as it had been forecast for months anyway - Labour and Lib Dem big winners, Tories and SNP big losers.

The only change was that Farage belatedly turned up. At least we didn't get the full thirteen Reform MPs that the exit poll predicted.

What next for the ...

Does Metropol's parody of the Decision '79 title sequence still exist anywhere?

Whilst I hate the paper, I'm a little surprised the S*n haven't endorsed anyone yet. Which suggests, they're expecting a Labour victory but aren't feeling too strongly about endorsing them.

There's reports The Sun will never endorse Labour with Starmer as leader when he was DPP during the ...

Whilst I hate the paper, I'm a little surprised the S*n haven't endorsed anyone yet. Which suggests, they're expecting a Labour victory but aren't feeling too strongly about endorsing them.

I too saw a Tory PPB that seemed to focus more on "Labour are going to win, so vote to prevent a ...

Lib Dem manifesto released this morning. Here are the key media bits taken from various different parts of it:

We will: Protect the BBC, S4C, BBC Alba and Channel 4 as independent, publicly owned, public service broadcasters.

Support the BBC both to provide impartial news and information, and to ...

I can’t tell from the picture if it’s an old fluorescent or an LED baton replacement but it could be it’s on an emergency lighting circuit? In my previous career I had a lot of facilities type things to look after and we had a small number of lights like this that stayed on all the time.


Ah it ...

This may be too niche even for Metropol but... following from the discussion about M&S, every time I visit Warrington I am intrigued by these old light fittings all around the edges of the store - a fluorescent tube fitting next to a pair of old spotlight fittings presumably? Clearly have been ...

That last photo with the light boxes is very nostalgic... I remember M&S being like that.

Saw a bench outside a Waitrose today that had the all caps pre-2004 logo on it. Everything else has been upgraded to the current "& Partners" look.