Last open water swim of the year. Still a toasty 20.6C in the water in Lincoln. Sublime.

Rest in peace, Maddy ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍

Avoid Sixt France Sixt France if you rent a car in France. I punctured 100km from my destination. No spare wheel. First assistance call not actioned. Car recovered after 4 hour wait. Promised taxi to replacement car pick-up never showed. Cost me €100 in overnight hotel 1/2

2/2 and airport run from the town Sixt abandoned me in. Lost a further €85 by cancelling destination hotel room without notice. No Sixt staff at the airport before flight home to complain to. And now a further pending charge of £75. Sixt charging for their appalling failures.

Mallorca, it has been a blast. Six days, 396 miles, 27,000ft of climbing.

Thank you to the Boots pharmacy team at the Newark town centre branch this morning for your great service and advice on a minor medical condition. You are a credit to your business.

I’m not given to smiling before a hard 90 minute effort on the bike trainer but then again I’m not used to being declared a ‘humanitarian’ cause to receive a non-compliant hip resurfacing implant. It had better be compliant with my body if not the UK medicine regulator 😂

The video and commentary do not do this sight justice.

Some of Andre Braugher’s best moments on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ have been put together to honor him after his tragic passing.

Not normally up this late on a Sunday but an unavoidable car journey means I am. In other news, how good is Angela Griffin on BBC Radio 2 right now? Pure quality.

Seeing the epic and relentless Jonathan Pie show at Sheffield City Hall last night meant a late supper on the way home and a right old beefy piss this morning.

Channelling the framed David Millar jersey inspiration prepping for the first TT of the season on the E2/10 tomorrow.

Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% 🇪🇺🐟🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🦠💙 Here's a still of the 'gentleman' who hit the police horse. Would be a shame to spread this far and wide... Hopefully his family, friends and work colleagues will recognise him (am sure the police are onto it already).

I wouldn’t say this is the best 12 inch single intro ever recorded but it’s in the top one Simple Minds

Four weeks on, it might be time to open the garage and see if the bicycle fared any better.

Hoping the unintended emergence of my dorsal fin will help me swim faster 🦈

Please do this. You’ll be glad you did. And the birds will be, too. Fingers crossed you see some of these pretty little things. #BigGardenBirdWatch rspb.org.uk/whats-happenin…

I’m indebted to the care, expertise and professionalism of Mr Manktelow Nottingham Hip & Knee, the entire theatre team and Harvey 1 staff Nottingham University Hospitals for making this my remarkable day 6 post-op reality, and to MatOrtho for enabling me to have Recerf resurfacing at all.

Weight bearing for some of today’s 5k walk. Day 19 post hip resurfacing surgery. Elated. Bonus points for the tune or the pianist playing the outro on the soundtrack.