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I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: BLT. Applewood-cured bacon, little gem lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, on wholemeal and spelt seeded sourdough.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Tuna mayo, onion, gherkin and tomato on multigrain sourdough

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This guy on American TV is making a pretty good case that Iran MIGHT need a nuclear weapon, tbh.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Also: people's stomachs gurgle MUCH more than you would expect.

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I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Pastrami, egg, tomato, gherkin, with sweet mustard on a wholemeal multiseed sourdough loaf.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"Well, that's all from us, Mr Hay, but is there any more information you would like to add that might support your grant application?"

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Corned Beef, horseradish, tomato, gherkin and spiced cream cheese, on a malted multiseed sourdough

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Homemade falafel, with red onion, tomato, gherkin, lettuce, spiced cream cheese and chilli and garlic sauce, in a cornflour wrap.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

<Youth Pastor comes into the sports hall, turns their chair around and sits down wrong-wise:> "Hey guys, you know who else has their birthday ruined by lots and lots of people they simply do not care for making grandiose and overt displays?"

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I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Harry's Bar Egg & Anchovy, with tomato and scallion on Beetroot pickle wholemeal sourdough.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

I reckon King Charles' attitude to the Birthday Honours is the same as my discovery that for some reason I have to bring cakes into work on my birthday. Namely: "What is this bullshit? People should be giving ME stuff."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

It's always interesting how people want to condemn "Netanyahu" for Israeli adventurism, as though he were a totalitarian dictator instead of a weak Prime Minister presiding over a shaky coalition. This round of attacks, and the genocide in Gaza, is being perpetrated by the Israeli state, with 1)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I'm old enough to have been involved in Y2K planning, and there's this story we were told. At one point there was a proposal to ground every airplane in the world at midnight on 1st January, 2000, just in case the altimeters reset and they went crashing to the ground, but they realised that they 1)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I stopped my bike to allow Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub and James Grant from Love And Money to use a zebra crossing on West Green Road in Tottenham. But get this: it was less than twenty minutes ago!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Salami, gherkin, tomato, scallion and two cheeses (Davidstow and a tiny bit of leftover Red Leicester) on multigrain sourdough.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sure the reasons are manifold, but with Starmer I'm not so sure it's even that deep, I think he has an extremely rigid and narrow outlook and that a significant portion of his continued support for Israel is this notion that that's what the UK is supposed to do, and that's enough for him.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich.Today: The Montreal Reuben. Pastrami, sauerkraut, tomato and Emmenthal, toasted on a skillet on the same wholemeal & pickle sourdough as yesterday.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The only way this could be funnier would be if Ade's confused and disoriented boss was also his actual wife. Hurray!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Cheese, onion and tomato on home-baked wholemeal and pickle-juice sourdough.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

i'd support the spontaneous mass unplanned protest against authoritarian racism but unfortunately i saw a picture of someone in the crowd doing something i personally think is bad optics so i'll have to sit the whole thing out. shame

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Corned beef, mustard, tomato and homemade coleslaw on (slightly wobbly) homemade linseed and spelt baguette.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is a packed lunch to have at my desk today: salami, mustard, tomato and cheese on the same wholemeal sourdough as yesterday.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Friendship ended with the sandwich hashbrown. Now traditional Irish boxty potato pancake is my best friend

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

I'm announcing #SandwichSummer. Every day for the month of June, or at least until I get tired of it, I shall prepare and eat a different sandwich. Today's sandwich is: Bratwurst, onion, beetroot sauerkraut and sweet mustard, on wholemeal sourdough.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments