Broadening the kids' cultural hinterland by taking them to a non-kicking ball sport. @LondonLions

*insert some sort of football/fireworks analogy* @LewishamBoroCFC

Great to see Lewisham's @Lixsanyee racing on the streets (and in the docks) of London today.

Love it when the work computer welcomes me with a screensaver of my home town castle. Seems a decent reason to delay logging in.

My half marathon this morning was a bit disappointing but completely offset by getting the best seat on the DLR home.

So poor is the UK's record on trade union rights that it scores zero on most measures relating to laws that allow workers to take industrial action to protect their pay and conditions.

The UK is behind on measures relating to dismissal, working time, employee representation and strike laws. For example, the Tories limited protection from unfair dismissal to those who had been in post for more than two years.

Using data compiled by Cambridge University, the report shows worker protections in the UK are barely half as strong as those in France and hugely lag other large European countries. The gap has widened since the Tories took power in 2010.

A report from the TUC shows that workers' rights in the UK are lagging behind the average for other OECD countries, a group of developed countries including France, Germany, Australia and the IS.

When your parents take you to the athletics but you don't trust the official timers. @london_dl