(Stevie) Brexit is off the agenda for the moment as it is now slowly dawning on people that maybe Boris is not quite the wholesome jolly fellow they thought he was, or, if they didn't but thought it didn't matter, they think it does now, a bit more at least. The front of Private Eye invites us to enjoy the carnage as Johnson and Cummings beat the shit out of each other. No wonder Boris didn't sack Cummings after the latter's optical quest in County Durham. Cummings probably knows a lot and is nasty enough to use it. Come on, Dom, do 'im over. BTW I hope you know over there pondwise what I'm on about.

WTF? I knew Brexit was going to be bad but didn't think it would get to this point after just 4 months.

You are a mere slip of a gel and do not remember the Iceland debacle.

(Stevie) That wasn't a proper war, just a cod one. BTW you won' 'arf get it from pen.

[Rosie] Gunboats in the water, trawler nets cut. Isn't this the way the current contretemps is heading? Reads that way over here.

I know some of that was poly-ticks. Still, I am lost. I know there was an ostrich war and the ostriches won . . .

I'd much rather have dragees than dragoons.

Prefer a Snapdragon to all the above. Beautiful prolific garden stalwart.

A plague of greenfly upon all gardens! AaaaAAAAAAAHCHOOO!

I like dragonflies . . .

(KS) I hope you cook them first.

Just had lovely text message from my sis (who has undergone almost a year of surgery and recovery followed by shitty chemotherapy) and was having a follow-up with her oncologist this afternoon. "It's all gone!!!!!" Phew.