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It's a map of the continent of AI-ia, which includes the countries AI-tania, Côte d'AI and the Central Republique of AI.

And we all know who the "shithole country" is now, don't we.

“Have you checked the copy for the Enterprise display ad?” “Didn’t need to, it’s the same every week” [one day later] “Oh”

Happy payday to those who celebrate! Here's Daphne looking magnificent and pointing out that it's a legal requirement to buy Dreamies on payday.

Lovely.

i'm on a meeting call that started 8 am, it's now 8.50 and everyone has just finished introducing themselves, please put me in a fibreglass submarine and send me to the bottom of the ocean

Got the day (month, in fact) wrong! As you were. (Can you transfer Garden Cinema tickets? In which case, does anyone want a ticket for Klute on afternoon of 31 August?)

oh godammit it you're right. And I bought my ticket! That'll teach me to book film tickets after midnight. Will have to chalk that one up to stupidity (unless I can transfer it to somebody). Not in London on Saturday, alas (though maybe see you Sunday?)

So - anyone else Klute-ing at the very wonderful Garden Cinema on Monday afternoon? (Availing myself of my lifetime membership)

Yeah, way to show an entire continent that you're ignorant arseholes who basically don't give a fig anyway.

Big clue in Côte d'Ivoire: "côte" means COAST. Hardly arcane linguistic knowledge given, for example, widespread use of the term "Côte d'Azur".

ALT: gently undulating rural English landscape - fields, trees, parched grass. Sky is blue with banks of fluffy white clouds.

View from my sister's guest room this morning, after some much-needed rain last night. Soundtrack, in background: caw caw baa baa. Temp: 15; max 24 predicted. Air quality index: 2 (ie pollution low; Antwerp currently 6, ie "poor"). Be nice if summers were more like this, without the microwave highs.

Felicity is turning herself upside down to fit me in.

Hers an excerpt of (rather gory) action from the first book, if anyone is looking to venture down the TNT rabbit hole.

Currently reorganising my paperbacks and came across my TNT collection - aka the wildest, most ridiculous and over-the-top men’s adventure series ever published. Let the synopses give you a taste of what’s inside:

I somehow seem to have gone directly from Scorsese’s Taxi Driver to Michael Bay’s Bad Boys II. And I think I’ve got the bends.

OK, some time has passed so here's my non-anecdote. Though Sam featured heavily in the show our only real contact was a chat on the bank of the Ouse while he waited in costume for a scene on the river. Poor guy hired to row the boat struggled with the period-accurate oars, so it took forever 2/6

Antwerp

police have arrested a man for failing to update his PDF reader, he is described as mid 30s, brown hair and has no fixed adobe