#PostOfficeScandal

From the evidence being given at the Inquiry, it seems that Exit Interview at #postoffice is as follows:

1) Hand in your Laptop
2) Hand in your Mobile Phone
3) Hand in your ID Card

4) Finally, look up at me, please 💥

Irish Free State:

#Brexit and #GoodFridayAgreement

'There must be no physical border between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland'!

Same Irish Free State:

'Illegal migrants cannot be allowed to cross from Northern Ireland to Southern Ireland'!

#lawofunintendedconsequences

#OTD in 1905, the birth of Sergey Nikolsky, Soviet and Russian mathematician.

He contributed work on functional analysis, approximation of functions, quadrature formulas, enclosed functional spaces & their applications to variational solutions of partial differential equations.

Hundreds of children blackmailed online in 'sextortion epidemic'

‘Foreign gangs!

We love foreigners, this is racist 😬😬 mol.im/a/13364063

#OTD in 1770, James Cook arrives in Australia at a place that he names, Botany Bay.

He remains the only English Captain to have toured Australia and not lost a Test Match.

Only sayin' 😬😬

#PostOfficeInquiry

Angela van den Bogerd

#OTD in 1970, the death of Arthur Shields.

Irish actor on TV, stage and film. He portrayed the Rev. Playfair in 'The Quiet Man', opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald.

A Dublin-born Irish Protestant, Shields fought in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Thanks, but I think I'll pass.....! 😬😬

Today is National Veterans' Day in Finland.

It is observed each year on 27 April, the day the Lapland War ended in 1945.

The last German troops left Finnish territory and crossed to German-occupied Norway

- marking the end of World War II in Finland.

#Finland

#OTD in 1849, the birth Felix Klein.

A German mathematician and educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry and the associations between geometry and group theory.

#Mathematics

All in all, yesterday was a good day!

Well, that was an eventful and educational morning in #London Victoria.

To my existing list of dangers, which include:

Getting stabbed
Being mugged
Suicide bomb
Run over on a footpath
Air pollution
Drink spiking
Machete attack

I must now add - Trampled to death!!

#surreal

It's late April ffs!!

You #ClimateCrisis loons promised us #globalwarming - where is it??

IYKYK 😂😂

Going up to Town tomorrow!

Seriously worried about what machete to take!

What happens if I produce my machete in the traditional London manner of greeting and it is the wrong one??

They'd all laugh at me!!

#modernbritishproblems 😬😬

'Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through,
Beside the river make for you
A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep
Deeply above; and green and deep
The stream mysterious glides beneath....'

Rupert Brooke, English poet

Died #OTD 1915 of septicaemia on a hospital ship off Skyros. Greece.

#HappyStGeorgesDay to all my flag-shagging, knuckle-dragging #English friends 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I will be celebrating later by treating myself to a kebab 🥙🥙 and a Şalgam Suyu 👍👍

Wishing all my Jewish friends a holy, blessed and peaceful #Passover

פריילעכן פסח

#LondonMarathon

My time today was 7 hours, 47 minutes and 51 seconds......!

Not a great time, I know - but, I got stuck behind some fat people!! 🤣🤣