Tony Theaker

That’s the second child now broken up for summer holidays. A week before they are transported down to Devon to visit grandparents for a fortnight.

If I see a Teams invite while I’m in the car, I’m driving off the nearest cliff

Yes!!! Printing this out so I can flash it in front of my wife when I am, NOW FALSLEY, accused of being a child! Loving age verification!

A friend recommended that, as a fan of Agatha Christie, I should try her novels written under the pseudonym of Mary westmacott. I have just finished the 1930 giants bread novel. What a wonderful story; complex, almost Greek in tragic plot. I really enjoyed it.

Finally had the dose of thunder we were predicted last week but bypassed us at that time lovely deep rumbles.

Taken a while but I have formulated my plan for an August bank holiday trip and will try a double pivot to Salisbury then Winchester. Winchester has been on my list for a long time.

Take thy tommy Robinson reposts and find someone else’s timeline to post them. Such a shame but there are lines to an unfollow.

An incredible film!

⁦ ⁦@ProfSyK⁩ I do not have enough superlatives to say how much I am enjoying this podcast. You are expanding my science knowledge (low base I admit). And this episode should be made compulsory for all people and school children to listen too podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sci…

Post sports Massage treat. Have to maintain this old wreck. Like the walls of Constantinople, at their peak formidable now a little ruined in places and a lot less formidable

17 out of 20 chapters of my forthcoming History of Byzantium done. Chapter 18 will be written next week (currently at Dumbarton Oaks - the closest to Heaven I am likely to get). The book was not my idea, but so far I have greatly enjoyed writing every single chapter.

Both the Dredd films are terribly underrated and under appreciated.

For you lovers of classic literature:

lol. I can relate to this so much.

Procrastinating painting the surround to the front door at 2.30pm doesn’t seem so clever now I have discovered it’s a 6 hour wait to add second coat!

Great to have watched U2 in 19865 singing their hits up to that point, not knowing that within 2 years of that gig they will have released one of the greatest albums of the 80s and become a global superband for the next 40 years. All unknown to them.

I did watch a bit of the live aid replay on the bbc yesterday and well done for doing that, but my memory is so vague that I cannot really remember many of the artists or songs at the time! I think I remember Queen of course, but that might be a myth and I picked it up later

The first few novels of James Bond villains are okay but they really start to motor in the DR No novel where the villain has become a Meglo-maniac dreams and aspirations creating the stereotype for the films to come.

Exactly Liz, nothing represents 'our national culture' more than Greek statues made in Greece by Greeks.