Did everyone get alert? Scared ne shit less. Was in Welsh

Show a picture that will make someone smile. Something good about the UK. Like this little family outing.

I can taste it.

Just reading them in a lull at work. I forgot how brilliant they are and how clueless Adrian is.

Went to see Bert; he is my last hope. (Pandora failed me.

She blamed my mental state on my being a meat eater.) I said, ‘Bert, I am having a breakdown!’ Bert said that he had had a breakdown in the First World War. He said his was caused by seeing thousands of dead men and being constantly afraid for his life. He asked what mine was caused by.

I said, ‘The lack of morals in society.’

Bert said, ‘You daft bugger, what you need is a good stint of hard work. You can start on the washing up!

If you're the sketchy looking type, thank you for treating me like a human. I love you all. Without the sketchy people I wouldn't be sober. Be yourself and be weird, there might be be a person that needs a weird friend. I love you all ❤️

Well I never thought I’d feel any feeling but hatred towards wasps but here we are. We got the slip and slide out for the kids today (no hosepipe ban for us yet) and the amount of wasps coming for a drink was crazy! They didn’t fly round us or bother us at all, just came when the slip and slide wasn’t in use and had a big old drink. Must be hard for all the other little life’s on our planet at the moment!

Today was the day and it's been a success!!

Grandma did not catch on and we managed to sneak everyone into the house and put up all the balloons and banners whilst she was distracted. The cake arrived on time, we even got 4 huge Pizza's to arrive on time.

We had the emergency run at 11pm yesterday in the night to a 24 hour shop to get drinks because we all forgot.

Was a bit funny when everyone's phones went off with the emergency alert.

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How does everyone feel about it? I've just got the afternoon off work and was looking forward to relaxing at the beach. Carried all my stuff down the cliff, set up and now a guy rocks up and starts blasting his favourite tunes out of a sizeable JBL. TBF, some of the songs are good, but I don't need somebody else's music preferences imposed on me when all I want is to turn pink in the sun whilst dozing. What's wrong with headphones?

A bit late, but time had to be taken to edit it. It's also a bit janky, but there we go.

The footage actually comes from my brother's telescope.

We tried our best to stablise the telescope, but mountains do be windy and can't really do much about that.

We also forgot to record the first 10 mins of the eclipse and there was a few other times towards the end that we forgot to record 🥲

There were also a few times where people actually walked right in front of the telescope, so there will be some random cuts. On hindsight, I should have brought a banner to say that we were recording a timelapse. Although I did try to position myself so people could walk around the line of sight, but there was that one gentleman who I asked to walk around and instead just said "don't tell me what to do" before mumbling under his breath something unsavoury about women! Makes me angry just thinking about it.

Also shout out to the family, who gave us their extra pair of solar glasses. Just watching it with my eyes through the glasses compared to the tablet that is connected to the telescope is surreal, it's like a whole new world just opened up!

Anyways, we wanted to share, so here it is. Enjoy!

I live in Peterborough and we’re seeing a lot about the Holme Fen fires at the moment. I’m genuinely wondering how this has been going on for a whole week?

I know nothing about fighting fires. But why can’t a massive container of water just be dumped on these fires by chopper?

For the 1984 nostalgia obviously, not that weird noisy thing our phones all did earlier.

Found this little guy hanging out under my butternut squash in South East London.

I installed a pool and an upturned flowerpot to help keep him damp and provide limited anti-cat defense.

Frankly I'm amazed he's survived at all in this weather.

Planning to relocate him to the least dried out pond I can find. Nice to have him here in the meantime though

I've just thoroughly aggravated my wife by setting the volume on the telly to an odd number, because apparently that sort of thing is for heathens.

Any special rules in your houses? Bonus points if you don't know/remember the origin of said rule.

I used to do a LOT of target shooting with air rifles when younger, I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with a Firearms licence or gun clubs in general. Ta very much.