A school of Great White sharks have made their home in Montery Bay, California
The Pacific can be a delight
But while swimming you may get a fright
Look over there, hark!
It’s a rather large shark
And it’s hungry, it’s great and it’s white
John Moynes
A tribute to the late, great Rutger Hauer by way of his star turn as Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’ (1982) by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy.
RIP
MORE to folly
Dillon Quinn in his KnockanStockan Festival outfits
Last week, Limerick fashion designer Dillon Quinn landed VERY LATE free tickets with the ‘sheet to see the KnockansSockan festival in Blessington Lakes, County Wicklow.
He promised to dress up.
Above are the festival-friendly outfits Dillon sported throughout the weekend.
Dillon writes:
The bodysuit is from a vintage store I work for called Spice Vintage in Limerick. All the vintage is hand picked by Grace (the owner) from vintage that’s 20 years old!
The boiler suit (black outfit with 777) is from Dublin Vintage factory. A festival essential! Keeps you warm & you can wear as pants which I did for the 3rd look….
…The 3rd look (Pic 1) is just a cropped vintage tee with a harness I made myself from old elastics & hardware from the tent materials….
In fairness.
Jonathan Bairstow of England is given out LBW to the delight of Ireland’s players this afternoon
#TestCricket: ENG vs IRE Day 2 innings 2
An outstanding session for the lads comes to an end! #ENGvIRE #IREvENG #England #Ireland #WeAreEngland #Cricket
England go into Tea 209-5, well bowled lads 👏🏻#BackingGreen ☘️ pic.twitter.com/inqsxC6sss
— T20 WorldCup (@ICCCricket_Com) July 25, 2019
This evening.
Tea?
We need dinner.
COYBIW
Meanwhile…
Jack Leach didn’t reach his hundred today, but yesterday at Lord’s there was another kind of centurion in attendance!
100-year-old fan Geraldine Brown enjoyed a thrilling day of Test cricket! 💯
(📹 via @HomeOfCricket) #ENGvIRE pic.twitter.com/a6NuV8SaZ3
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) July 25, 2019
Yesterday at Lord’s.
Tanaiste Simon Coveney’s cricket-loving, Champagne-sipping grandmother Geraldine Brown celebrates 100 not out.
Fierce posh.
Top pic: Getty
Behold: the Ecurie Ecosse LM69 – a street legal race car built to 1969 FIA regulations. But why, for pity’s sake?
In 1956 and 1957, Ecurie Ecosse – a small Scottish racing team – won the coveted Le Mans title with customised Jaguar D-Types. Shut down in the 1970s, then revived in the 1980s, the company remains in operation today and now plans to revive the prototype Jaguar XJ13 – the car Jaguar envisioned for Le Mans before abandoning the entire project.
The LM69 is a vision of what might have happened had Jaguar updated the XJ13 to race at Le Mans in 1969 (hence the name). 25 of these 5.0l, V12 racers will be made – the exact number required to homologate the car for competition under 1969 rules.
We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to our friend and the site’s chief reporter, Olga Cronin, whose father passed away yesterday after a short illness. The thoughts and prayers of everyone in Broadsheet are with Olga and her family at this time.
Um.
Caroline McT writes:
Could your readers settle something. Are flip flops on men acceptable in a work situation?
Anyone?
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons today
“No country that values its independence and indeed its self-respect could agree to a treaty which signed away our economic independence and self-government as this backstop does,” Mr Johnson told the Commons.
“A time limit is not enough. If an agreement is to be reached, it must be clearly understood that the way to the deal goes by way of the abolition of the backstop.”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson demands removal of Irish backstop for Brexit deal (FT)
Meanwhile…
When questioned about Mr Johnson’s comments on the backstop, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he looks forward to discussing the issue with him.
The Taoiseach said that the threat of no-deal Brexit is a British one and he hopes Mr Johnson has not chosen it.
Mr Varadkar repeated that he hopes to meet Mr Johnson soon and did not want to start negotiating with him over the airwaves.
Backstop must go to move Brexit forward – Johnson (RTÉ)
Pic: Reuters
