The World According To Dan

Random photos, TV, politics and anything else that comes into view

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Elle King Says Traumatic Incident Led to Disastrous Dolly Parton Tribute - Elle King's finally addressing her flubbed Dolly Parton performance in full ... chalking up the alcohol-infused moment to dealing with difficult issues in ...
FAIL Blog

‘Please don't tow my parents car': College tenants parents arrive to celebrate their graduation, landlord demands $200 for 1 hour parking - I can still remember that one landlord who was so stingy that it was almost remarkable he owned any land at all. The roof had been leaking for months, an...
Guido Fawkes

Who’s on Question Time Tonight? #BBCQT - […] Read the rest
PoliticalBetting.com

Bet accordingly to this Robert Peston tweet - Hopefully Robert Peston’s understanding of Rishi Sunak’s comments is better than his understanding of photographs. But what a time to be alive, election an...
Awkward Family Photos

Grandpa Knows Best - “My grandpa and me. Cullera, Spain 2004.” (submitted by IG @tonigr99) The post Grandpa Knows Best appeared first on AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.
Iain Dale's Diary

Looking Forward to the Fowey Festival, 17-18 May - [image: Fowey] I first appeared at the Fowey Festival at least 20 years ago. My role was to interview Ann Widdecombe about one of her novels. I fell i...
Ben Charlton

Aldi Kamado Upgrades - Back in 2021 I bought the very cheap Aldi Kamado ceramic BBQ/smoker.
Radiac's Diary

Putting the fun in funeral - Welcome to Radiac's Guide to Death! My father died a few months ago, and as the last member of the family it's been my responsibility to organise his fun...
FT.com Westminster

Markets latest: GameStop closes up 68% – as it happened - *All the latest as a wild week on Wall Street, which pitted Redditors against hedge funds, comes to a close.* Read more
There, I Fixed It.

Epic DIY Chainsaw Fails Video Compilation - It’s funny that you need a license to fish, hunt, own a gun, drive a car, and work as a manicurist a nail salon, but there’s no such requirement for owni...
Bagehot's Notebook

And then there were two - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt progress to the final stage of the Tory leadership contest
Anna Raccoon

A clattering of Jackdaws. - When we bought this house, we noticed that there appeared to be a pair of Jackdaws living in the chimney. We had to block off the chimney, so felt rather b...
Chase Me Charlie

i knit, therefore i am - The past few days have been pretty busy, so I haven’t had the time to sew. (I live in a very small flat, so getting my sewing machine & ironing board out ...
Benedict Brogan

RIP Benny Green – the boy who brought black Britain to a generation of schoolkids - IT'S perhaps no surprise that the death of Terry Sue-Patt, the actor who played Benny Green in the BBC school drama Grange Hill, is one of the most-read it...
Cranmer

Canon Andrew White deserves a knighthood - He doesn't care about temporal honours, of course. You only have to hear the 'Vicar of Baghdad' preach, or take a few minutes to watch the above short fi...
Peace. Of. Analeigh.

It is a Sunday, and I wanted to find my disjointed thoughts in front of me. For me. - There was an old wicker bird cage, canary yellow, that sat on some unnecessary piece of furniture in a lovely, but unnecessary room we fittingly dubbed the...
Torah Club

A Simple Noahide - This is something I learnt during my die-trying seeking for conversion to Judaism. There is a beauty in Judaism that it does not require you to be Jewish...
Henry Porter

I'm off, but the struggle for civil liberties must go on | Henry Porter - With the new government promising to respect our civil liberties, I think now is a good time for me to bow out This is my last post for liberty central, a ...
The Carrie Prejean

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