@4r7hr I think of those kinds of puzzle instructions as “rubrics cubed”.
@hayles Triangle is open on weekdays only, annoyingly. Luckily I hardly ever need to go either. Though still using an actual building society book account that can *only* do cheques or cash—no electronic payment—for one particular thing. Hoping to fix that one when I have the energy…
@hayles Since the Clifton Village and the Corn Street branches shut down, there isn’t a Lloyds I can get to at lunchtime by walking, either from work or home. And driving to the bank just seems annoying.
@beardedjourno One of my favourites. Would actually have bought that paddle steamer book from the window today if I’d not been passing before opening time!
@bendavis_86 TKTK WITTY COMEBACK TKTK
@chubbybannister I have on of those electric tennis rackets and it’s quite satisfying, though admittedly not terribly efficient.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor Just explain Bitcoin to your parents, I’m sure nothing will go wrong.
@stillawake Yes. It wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t great. I will try something else next time; seemed like a pleasant enough place and the staff were very friendly.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor My bank let me pay in cheques by taking a photo of them, which is oddly anachronistic. Sadly there’s an upper limit on the value, which is why I had to schlepp all the way to Cabot today to pay in an Inland Revenue refund. No more local Lloyds is open at weekends now :(
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor Ironically, I would happily have a couple fewer cafes in Bristol if it meant that my bank and building society weren’t fecking miles away now.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor That was the one.
beardedjourno It’s #bookshopday today so what better way to spend the afternoon than to explore every one of Bristol’s independent bookshops? First stop: Bookhaus in Wapping Wharf, which was officially opened by David Olusoga in August last year. (1/12) pic.twitter.com/ta3HpvXsz3
BacklistedPod New episode up now. Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, with guests Jennifer Lucy Allan @JenniferLAllan and Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom. backlisted.fm/episodes/r2thi…
ohsinnerman CELTIC WEIRD will now come out on November 10th. This is fine, because look at the final cover which has incorparated imagery from books of ancient Celtic Art. I wept with joy when I saw it. A massive bravo to Mauricio and Magdalena who designed it.
I am in love. pic.twitter.com/BUSar7wEiX
@psidnell NICE.
@benjohnbarnes No, they’re on the ground floor. IT IS I WHO DESCENDS.
I love the AI-based feature in iPhones’ Photos app that makes sure you’re sitting at your Mac wanting to do something with the photos that you took hours ago before it starts to sync them.
@slicknic (Also the Lloyds app is incredibly fussy and last time it took about nine goes for it to accept that the photo of the back of the cheque it required—which was completely blank!—was valid…)
@slicknic Tried that but this one was over the limit for that method, sadly. #firstworldproblems Really I should just try to convince the Inland Revenue to use the bank details I thought they already had for me…
I mean, if we’re determined to go back to the 1970s the least we could do is turn a few wine bars back into banks.
Just had to pay a cheque into the bank, like a Victorian. Been a while. Given the progression of the last few times, my next trip will be in 2027, and I’ll be going to a branch of Lloyds in Birmingham that’s only open between 11 and noon on Tuesdays.
peterwalker99 A round of applause, please, for the Guardian colleague who wrote the headline to this story of mine. pic.twitter.com/HR4ube1gLb
@chubbybannister I went with a bizarre VROOM, and—because I was thinking US spellings, but in the wrong way—both VISOR and VIZOR. D’oh.
Cinnamon pretzel. Yes please. pic.twitter.com/4TeLJHoLIb
I see Broadmead had given its balls a buff-up. pic.twitter.com/OA2Mn3W1KG
Oh dear. Upstairs neighbours are moving out. “Oh dear” not because I know them well, but because they’ve never woken me up at 3am. I fear the Unknown Quantity that Might Be About to Descend.
outonbluesix What *is* The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society…?
timworthington.org/books/the-camb…
@chubbybannister FFS
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