The Jeremy Vine

01/01/2025

Love these guys so much

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01/01/2025

Latest cycling-in-London film. My new year's resolution is to spread more joy on the roads. We’ll see how long it lasts, but this wasn't a promising start:

31/12/2024

Coastal home. Bread ordered. Delivery guy (South African accent) appalled by the number of steps. Decides to unload on the lowest step. Needed to think this through.

31/12/2024

A great description (not mine) of what it means to be an alcoholic.
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"When I have one beer, although I will drink it slow, I will want another one afterwards. Because I will have opened something inside of me that is similar to a lock.

"Once this lock has been opened I immediately relax. I feel good. That beer tasted great and made me feel great. I want to feel more of that.

"So I have a second beer. This one I drink a little quicker because I now have the taste for it. After my fourth beer I start drinking rum. I don’t remember even drinking those last two pints, but I’m sure that they tasted great too. I feel fantastic.

"I buy a bottle of rum to take home, and make sure that there is at least six beers chilling in the fridge for tomorrow. I drink through the night.

"The next day I wake up and there’s only one beer left in the fridge and the rum is nearly empty. I polish off the beer directly after breakfast and pop to the shops to buy some more. I’ll buy twenty beers this time to last through the week, and another bottle of rum. But I’ll save the rum for the week, and buy a couple of bottles of Prosecco for today. It’s a nice and sunny day, and will be lighter than drinking beer.

"By 3pm the Prosecco has gone and I am back on the beer and the rum. I run out of beer on Monday and the rum has gone by Tuesday, so I pop back to the shops to stock up mid week.

"After fifteen years of living like this my kidneys start bleeding urate crystals into my blood stream which gives me gout. I lose the ability to walk, sleep or function as a normal human being for weeks at a time. My life becomes a living hell.

"I decide to quit drinking and have now been sober for twenty months. I no longer suffer from gout.

"I avoid going to the pub, because it is frankly boring if you are not eating or drinking. 'Why don’t you just have one?' my friends always ask.

"Because I am an alcoholic. When I have one beer, although I will drink it slow, I will want another one afterwards."
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30/12/2024

The "top fan" feature on here needs looking at 🤔

30/12/2024

Let's collect bad predictions, this would be fun

30/12/2024

Just celebrating my first review when the second one came in — thank-you Tony Bousfield!!

30/12/2024

Only just found out about this guy Rick Rescorla.
Rick was head of security for Morgan Stanley in the South Tower of the World Trade Centre. He repeatedly warned that the Towers' basements were vulnerable to attack; no one listened.
Then there was a car park bomb in 1993. After that, Rick implemented regular evacuation drills, using his megaphone to direct the thousands of employees out of their offices, down the stairwells, and out of the building to safety.
Born in Cornwall, Rick would sing Welsh and Cornish songs from his megaphone as he directed the employees out of the building.
He would routinely tell employees — in an emergency, no matter what chaos is happening around you, no matter what anyone tells you, leave your offices, go down the stairwells, and leave the building.
When the first plane hit the North Tower on 9/11, the Port Authority announced over the South Tower's speaker system "Please do not leave the building. This area is secure."
Rick ignored them.
"The dumb sons of b------s told me not to evacuate," he said to his best friend Dan. "They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people the f--k out of here."
And so Rick picked up his megaphone as he had done so many times before, told his employees not to listen to the orders, and directed them out of the building.
His Cornish songs helped keep their nerves calm as they evacuated, even after the second plane hit their Tower.
Once he had successfully evacuated his employees, Rick went back to look for survivors.
But first, he called his wife Susan. "I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life."
That was the last time anyone saw him alive.
All but 6 of the 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees survived.
Proud to have found this out. Bless you Rick, son of !

29/12/2024

Another band photo. This time 1984, The Sharp Suits. Clockwise from top left: Jonathan Hillman (phenomenal talent), Peter Firmo (genius on bass), me and my bro.

29/12/2024

Getting the band back together. The Flared Generation, easily Cheam’s biggest band in 1983, were Tim Vine, Simon Williams and myself. Two days ago we all had lunch in Cheam Village and tried to recreate this iconic photo

29/12/2024

The guy in the sunglasses is really annoying me at this point

28/12/2024

If I'd been in this café, they would definitely have had me with this

28/12/2024

Does this count as my first review?! My debut crime novel, “M*rder On Line One” is out in April with HarperCollins Publishers UK

25/12/2024

Out with my wife on Christmas Eve, and I find there is actually a Vine Street — the one from Monopoly! But it's not what I expected...

15/12/2024

Rather nice surprise to wake up to this. A patch of neglected land just off my local high street is going to be given a makeover. Can't imagine anyone objecting. As always in my area, volunteers give the lead. The council picks up the schemes that look best. The gamechanger on my local high street is the Chiswick Flower Market and Chiswick cheese market and Chiswick High Road Antique and Vintage Market and the Food St. Market. But this will be great too. Have a look at the first story — these are the plans which are a goer now.

Image: ‘Ginkgo Corner’ The directors of the Chiswick Flower Market would like your opinion The Chiswick Flower Market team has been working on a proposal to created a seating area […]

14/12/2024

Love you Parastoo!!

13/12/2024

This was fun

13/12/2024

I was cross. And then I wasn't. Well it's Christmas!