Rob Blundell
robblundell.bsky.social
Rob Blundell
@robblundell.bsky.social
Legal stuff. Wind farms. Biotech. Sometimes agriculture.
Any industry that has an escalator of "RPI plus X%" or sinilar should have it removed.

All it tells me is that the lawyers who negotiated it were gulled and didn't understand maths.
Well I never.
Not RPI+1%, not RPI, not even CPI, just 0%...
The Chancellor has announced that regulated rail fares will be frozen next year. A huge win for passengers and the economy, and one of our Budget asks!
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
They know.

20 years ago I went to Snows on the Green, Hammersmith twice, two years apart, and the waitress told me correctly where I'd sat and even what I'd eaten the first time.

Fun fact: at the table next to me was a young BBC guy berating his agent for better work. Glad it worked out, Vernon.
Took my sister to my favourite restaurant for dinner. Wanted to see if they'd make a comment at any point then or later that I was with a woman who wasn't my wife. Result: taking the mistress there next week.
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Good grief. I just read the worthy replies to this post - full of bright Remainers for whom nothing but ideological purity and a full rejoining would do. All baffled why anyone would choose a halfway house.

Have these people never encountered... politics?
Oh, Customs Union again? Based on recent conversations I am pretty sure that any form of greater UK market access to the single market including this will require substantial financial contribution, alignment, and close to freedom of movement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Such beauty to wake up to on the timeline. I am now old so can say things like "They just don't make cars like this any more". Impractical but I'd love a GS.

(And sorry, I know my generation are the ones that asked for safety and efficiency and all that stuff, and made all the cars lumpen boxes)
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Chopped chillies then blew nose. So that's my evening spent squinting.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The fact that in America there is still a rump of wronguns who are still trying to advance explicitly nazi symbols and dogma (as opposed to the European wronguns who like the policies, yet those that adopt the insignia are largely thought of as weirdos) always surprises.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Noisy, and welcome, dose of Martin Lewis on #r4today after an interminable love in with Gove.
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"Do you call that small thing a knife? Look at the knife I have instead - you will surely see that it is a much much bigger knife! It makes your knife look silly in comparison!"
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Anyone with a numberplate beginning B19 (as in "Big" and their initials) is a dick.

No further questions
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
WhatsApp for web update. Anyone else work out how to change date displays to civilised format DD/MM/YYYY?
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Terminology time, but surely it can't be a U-turn on a U-turn, as this is an O-turn, or just standing still?
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'd hate to be health secretary. Always having to roll up sleeves and tuck a tie in.

It's like a corruption of what is already an impractical uniform
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This year I started ina new office and had exactly this. Eventualy people settled more on "Rob" which is fine...

...Until we just got a new guy, who is only "Rob".

I've got to change back haven't I?
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm not overweight, I am underheight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Don't drop phone! In fact put it to one side - a bath is sanctuary, not a time for scrolling

(And besides, you're just bragging)
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Reposted by Rob Blundell
Caught two minutes of the BBC stuff on the news and feel sick at the idea of this pillar falling. Farage and the other cunts chomping at the bit will take the NHS next and we'll be sat listening to Third Reich FM hoping our minor injury infections take us sooner than later.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
open.spotify.com/track/3qvMgw...

How did I make it this far, as someone who owns Four Tet tracks on vinyl, and had never heard this absolute banger before??!?

Glad I have. Now on repeat.
Looking at Your Pager - Extended
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I keep on remembering some of the beautifuly delivered lines from #ThePhoenicianScheme and giggling to myself.

"Help yourself to a hand grenade"

I think it may be vying with GBH as my favourite Anderson.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Busy day for the dogfight training over North Yorkshire. I'm in the middle where the Eurofighters come up from Coningsby meet the training jets down from Leeming. Noisy buggers all of them*.

(*I am completely jealous as it loks great fun up there)
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Rob Blundell
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM