@jpstacey we are! About 11ish and hope to have early lunch there before descending on chums in Cheltenham. Cheltenhums.

@rickbox gold star

There’s a 2-2 family split over the gender of 2yo’s fluffy toy dog, ‘Baggy Wag’. Like Tiresias and Orlando. #pretentious

@robinhouston sounds like she’s ready to read Gödel, Escher, Bach.

Blimey: Colin Wilson’s ghost has appeared and written half a dozen books already.

RT @miche: My favourite sports-commentary blooper is the time Brian Johnston said “The bowler’s Fondling, the batsman’s Perineum.”

Blistering barnacles.

“Captain Haddock,” [me!], “we need to go an adventure… to find a bus…” “We found it at the bus stop, going to the wrong place.”

2yo F has just been cast as Snowy to 5yo L’s Tintin. #peckingorder

Man in the Co-op, in his 60s, wearing a dressing gown and green wellies, buying the Telegraph. So Charlbury.