Nice helpful notifications from Deutsche Bahn Personenverkehr’s fantastic DB Navigator app. Slight overuse of the phrase “according to the timetable” though… our German friends are not taking any responsibility for the possible inefficiency of our trains 😊

I may have been born in the Schengen area but soon I will have to register my biometrics, and even pay a fee and apply for permission, to go there. Being British really, really sucks.

Really looking forward to my first experience of taking the Caledonian Sleeper to Edinburgh next week for @ictmc2024. Thanks goes yet again to The Man in Seat 61 for his incredibly detailed Caledonian Sleeper pages so I know exactly what to expect 🛤️🛏️ seat61.com/sleeper-to-sco…

Sooo cool

Quick story: Went to a conference in Edinburgh. Forgot to pack medication. Naively thought that my English surgery could send a prescription electronically to a local pharmacy in Edinburgh… noooo! In NHS terms, Scotland is a completely foreign country. Hooray for devolution!

Right, it's finally happened - I have crossed over into middle-England middle-age: I've signed up for a Telegraph subscription. I can hardly believe it. It .. just .. happened. It feels so ... wrong. Mitigating circumstances: It was only so I could read Victoria Coren Mitchell's column

10 mins into “The Substance”. Is it just me or does this have a definite Stanley Kubrick vibe?

OK, Apple Music. After several years I have finally given in to your incessant nag screens inviting me to a free trial. But... what's this? I can't listen to Apple Music content on my 2003 2nd Generation iPod? Doesn't Apple care about us early adopters? You're here thanks to us

#severence THANK YOU for a finale closing credits sequence to match the best of title sequences by Maurice Binder or Saul Bass. An artform that has not been surpassed for the last 55 years. Oh and the ep was 5⭐️ too

Celebrated #RecordStoreDay by getting a limited edition LP of one of my favourite ever albums, Zero 7’s When It Falls, from Truck Oxford. I’ve been immersing myself in its Warm Sound all evening Found it in the Modern Classics section; that it is.