Be Excellent To Each Other

What’s the thing that’s horizontally wide but vertically short that you’re trying to describe, Mimi?

A rectangle.

It’s not a physical thing, it’s just a shape. I just thought of it a few days ago whilst I was trying to avoid getting out of bed.

Love yours

Police appeal after Lamborghini and Mercedes crash in Alderley Edge

"POLICE are appealing for witnesses, video and dashcam footage after a two-car crash in Alderley Edge."

In the meantime, here's a photo of Wilmslow Road in Alderley Edge before the crash took place. Or possibly after, then the Elves have tidied up.

British journalism at its best.

Is the ridge anywhere near the bridge?

I was tired.

Mimi has been possessed by aliens.

These thoughts are the ones that keep me awake at night.

I think this is what might be keeping me awake at night for a while.

That's a rectangle.

Yes. But a rectangle with CREEPY EYES.

Night night, Mimi x

Thank you Zardoz. Always good to have a bit of back-up crazy to go along with my forwards-facing crazy.

Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and wondered if (natural) sponges were formed from organic material with holes going though it, or if sponges were just holes with organic material formed around it.

Sweet dreams xx

Consider this assertion.

There are two kinds of people in the world.

Those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

Liz Truss thinks that social media needs more of her in it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ream-media

I’m tempted to register LettuceTalk.co.uk to get a jump on it for a bit of fun

Her reputation is much better in the US than in the UK. I think "Former Prime Minister" works for her there whereas "Worst Ever Prime Minister" doesn't work so well here

I do love it when politicians bang on about "the elites". She was the PM of the United Kingdom with a majority of 80 but it was the editor of the Guardian that was stopping her?

You know when banks offer a switching bonus? Well for the last three years I've been opening new accounts whenever they do that. It's not even a money thing for me. I just think about the dirty tricks the banks played when I was in my 20s. Trying to get me to borrow huge sums of money by sending me loan offers that looked like cheques. Pricks. Luckily I never fell for it. So if any of them offer up a bonus, I sign up, take the money and bounce.

The latest were Nationwide who were offering £175 which you could get twice, once for a solo account and again for a joint one. I'd already done the solo account and didn't qualify but I got the bonus for the joint account on Tuesday. Neat!

So me and Mrs. Blucey have decided that account is going to be our 'fun account' and so we'll pay into it every month and then we'll use it for booking tickets and paying for trips and nights out.

Immediately booked tickets for a comedian, Simon Evans, who I remember being quite good on Live At The Apollo but he's playing a local venue that we like a lot. And then we've also booked A Christmas Carol goes Wrong (by the 'Play Goes Wrong' guys) for November.

Thanks, Nationwide. Pricks!

BTW - if you've never bothered with bank switches, you definitely should. I've made £2400 since Aug 2022 and I've also done the same for my wife and her mum.

Darn right! I'm not quite as serious as you but I'm up nearly 900 quid since I started this time last year. I use a single "main" account and then just a second one with a handful of Direct Debits in it that I switch across. A few mins sorting some DDs and a standing order and it's free cash!

Nice. Just so you know, I managed to get NatWest, RBS and Ulster despite them all being in the same banking group. So no worries there.

And I got Lloyds twice within a year or two by signing up with a different email address the second time.

Once on one of those horrible office away day things we were all siphoned off to do that stupid Meyers-Briggs test.

When they were presenting all of the results the head of department and I got the same designation, and he was so disgusted that he threw a massive paddy in front of the whole department and started getting really upset and demanded that he be allowed to take the test again so he could get a different result.

For some reason the organiser capitulated and he was allowed to become something else, leaving me as the sole person with that designation.

Every now and then this comes back to me. Fun fact: this happened in the hall I had my wedding reception in (not the same occasion though).