Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
But I *did* wear steel grey to my wedding!
Neo-Northumbrian. Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline. Harmonist. Bad guitarist. Midnight Baker. Hill walker. Cricket lover. Company grower. Bird noticer. Wine hoarder. Shameless with my bonhomie.
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But I *did* wear steel grey to my wedding!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Maffs, please.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
There must be an accent…
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
😉🏖️
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Good luck! Au contraire, I work with a lot of Danes, who all disappeared for several weeks over the summer and are now back and busy. I’m off fie two weeks in France on Wednesday. 😀
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
That Canaletto was some painter...
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Does anyone have any restaurant recommendations in or around Bordeaux?
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Works. Thanks.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
I get the same
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Bravo!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Take away pizza. Booze. Been a long and stressful day.
Alexander Clarkson (@aphclarkson.bsky.social) reposted
The Labour Party is led by people who are convinced that their massive parliamentary majority was given to them by the wrong kinds of voters
James Oswald (@sirbenfro.bsky.social) reposted
If you have an emergency phone you don't want someone to find out about, please be aware that this is happening soon.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
You should carry an orchestra with you for retaliatory purposes.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Says Lev, who has been known to turn a symphony orchestra up to 11.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
🙄 You can always tell a Yorkshireman…
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Yorkshire exceptionalism yet again.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
What!? Joy lived in Wooler?
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Forever Young Lady Marmalade This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us. 🤷🏼♂️
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Well then I salute your fatigability.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are with you.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Why not? It’s the nearly-weekend.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Shrinking Blue Jeans Trex Simon and Garfunkels
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
AFC Bournemouth, innit?
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
No word ever put more work into a sentence than this ‘somehow’.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Hoping it’s going to be cooler round Bordeaux in mid-September.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Triple!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Yeah. Me too. So?
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Chicken soup
timoconnorbl.bsky.social (@timoconnorbl.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Very few wars have been for for a better cause, very few against a worse, than the US Civil War and the only kindness of memory the Confederacy deserves is the oblivion of damnatio memoriae TL:DR -
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
I will have STAIRCASES!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah. I thought it was an insider’s affectionate nickname.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
My wife worked on it and tells me it’s great.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
If they equal the scores - so win the series - does Woakes retire hurt for a tie?
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
🤷🏼♂️
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Though I’m much better at *drinking* than *tasting*.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Highly recommend. Great fun.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
⚫️OK
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Will* save you some *Won’t
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
84% on winviz is mad!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
That said, it looks pitch black in some shots.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Cricket shooting itself in both feet again.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s in whites.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
😮💨 #thecricket
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
🥹
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Duck breast, roast potatoes. But first a Wine Society tasting kit. 😁
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Something in my eye then.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
It might not be very summery but it’s still glass-of-red-and-a-small-Havana-after-barbecued-ribeye-in-the-garden season.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
…one for the teenagers.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Harry Pilling
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Gruff, obviously.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
£130 for Berwick in the Lowland league.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Genius!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. Not that London. The other one. Goes to a different school.
Dr Jane Park 🎻🏳️⚧️ (@viola-jane.bsky.social) reposted
Absolutely marvellous performance: worthy winners again! 🏴⚽ Tonight, my 6y/o son said he wants to be a footballer. He feels he has a lot to learn; happily, he can. When I was small, Italia 90 lit my dream. But as a girl, there was no way to play. Now, there is 🤩 Thank you, inspiring Lionesses!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
No idea. But Chloe Kelly won again by being the only player who seemed excited to see her.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
‘It’s safe! I’ve turned off Bob Dylan.’
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Say what you will about snobbery and refusal to move with the times at Lord’s, they’ve got this bang on.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Final leg of today’s top class sporting trifecta: Lions test, England v India, Shielfield Park for Berwick Rangers v Cowdenbeath (the Blue Brazil)
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
WOW! #Lions
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
My son was always delighted when I brought him home some Plopps.
sianushka.bsky.social (@sianushka.bsky.social) reposted
When I did a story on conditions in migrant hotels, there was a woman who would have to wash the spicy sauce off the pasta - in the sink - because there was no meal suitable for her toddler. She felt like a bad mum who couldn’t feed her own child
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, I saw Colin Cowdrey play. Though I can’t honestly say I remember his cover drive.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Gower.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Never less than unoriginal.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Madam, please step away from the fish pond.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
No other solution: another G&T
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Or an evil landlord.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Here come the rooks*. Heading home to the rookery after a hard day’s rooking. *and a few jackdaws
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm choosing to imagine that this was just a passing encounter in the street.
Sam Freedman (@samfr.bsky.social) reposted
Is Michelle Agyemang English? Is Ian Wright English? Yes they're fucking English. The loser racists can all fuck off.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Wasn’t it great?!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Blimey! #thefootball
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Well, we got the chimney swept and a massive crate of logs delivered today. So, blow wind and crack your cheeks.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
*Likes twice*
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
In performance, sure. Composition, not close.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would you not..?
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Might not be my top choice but I love barbecuing in the rain.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
10 miles away, in the hills. And not hit here yet. Any minute now.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Just so. 'Oh, almost to Hadrian's Wall.' No, that's more than an hour away, to the SOUTH.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, in my experience, many people (based on conversations before and since we moved here from London) don't really know where it is. 'Somewhere near Yorkshire?'
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Shhh, Lev.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Surely time to get Duckett under Siraj's visor and up his nose. #thecricket
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
OK. Happy now?
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Hugerer
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Get in!
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Normally bothered by lack of cricket content on this site. Today it’s about 80% of my feed. Splendid.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
🤷🏼♂️
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Huger
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Sycamore Rigby
Rick Burin (@rickburin.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
CURRENT BAZBALL STATUS: did you ever doubt it 🥰
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social) reply parent
Huge,Lev. Huge.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
At least.
Andy Gardiner (@andygardiner.bsky.social)
Anyone manage to lipread Archer’s comment to Pant? Sure he was just wishing him a speedy recovery from the finger injury. #thecricket