Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026He’s a cult figure on social media but it’s a shame that whoever filmed this for the Japanese ambassador to the UK doesn’t know the basics of filming on a phone: audio without an external mic in a loud environment will be bad; not locking the focus gives that horrible pulsing effect.  020
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026At first, it’s an impressive waterfall…only to be revealed as a weir on the River Gade, on the outskirts of Watford. 130
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Impressive from @vodafonegroup.bsky.social. This email about helping set up broadband arrived 1030 Friday…when the broadband service was installed Wednesday 1130 🙄 The guy installing it flagged up I needed the app, meaning I had service soon after. But if he hadn’t, would I still be waiting? 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I know I don’t use Instagram much but even so I was surprised to see this 11 year old video about Jeremy Clarkson so prominent on the BBC News page. Is there a logical reason for that? 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026They don’t make them like this any more, do they? (Both the illuminated board and the programmes themselves) 061
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very surreal to be back at TVC, more than twenty years after I first worked here. It’s my first visit since 2010 (?) and while it’s changed a lot, there’s much still eerily familiar. 130
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Blimey. For once, Dale *doesn’t* back the Ref/VAR. 060
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very tempted to enquire about the retail price for the canine in this shop’s glass-fronted display. (Or is there a better way to ask that question?) 150
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Much as I love Arsenal, I cannot defend this. I dread to think how many people have received this email and the really terrible spelling error.  010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Disappointed that the shop wasn’t a lot smaller, to be honest.  2143
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A clever cartoon in this week’s Private Eye… even if a pendant would point out that in order for the words on the clapperboard to be filmed by the glasses, the clapperboard would need to be at a very different angle and probably not visible by the woman.  020
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Given the relentlessly hot, sunny and dry summer most of England has had, there must be brides, grooms and wedding parties across the country cursing their luck for scheduling their big day on the last Saturday of August, given it’s chucking it down almost everywhere for most of the day. 040
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I gather it’s raining in large parts of the UK today? I know it’s needed but i like my current view. 20°c and breezy - blissful 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I realise that Danes are broadly wealthy and they have a good social and healthcare system, but even so I was blown away by this emergency vehicle 1196
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Bonkers that I’ve got a 5G signal good enough to boast about having a good 5G signal…when it’s so often a challenge in central London. 230
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Today I learned that an incredibly still body of water - this happens to be the Skaggerak south of Oslo and north of Denmark - both confuses the lens cleaning suggestion (it appeared even though my lens was scrupulously clean) and the level meter (check the horizon) 040
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Always look up. Things might not be as bad as they first appear. 030
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Marvelling again at the free WiFi at a Premier Inn 020
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This reply will make little sense to a random American on Twitter, but it amused me which is what it’s all about, I guess. 5767
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026While we’re expecting the weather to break FINALLY and see temperatures in London approaching normal for late August, this doesn’t seem to be wholly accurate? 000
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Quite something that the free WiFi on Brittany Ferries as we cross the Bay of Biscay, hundreds of miles from land, is faster than your average Premier Inn 130
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Day one of force-closing TikTok on seeing this. How long can I do it for…? 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I’m not saying the Spanish Met Office as is unreliable as the UK’s, but there’s quite a difference between what their app is saying the weather is like here…and what the weather IS actually like here 040
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I mean…it looks *fairly* green. Not the deepest I’ve ever seen though, but whatever.  140
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Yes! We drove south to a small town called Villabermudo a few minutes off the A67 and found a perfect spot. The photo doesn’t do it justice. 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It was all ok in the end I drove 100 miles south. It got darker over the course of an hour and then BANG - a minute and a half of wonder. The photos from my phone do it little justice; i was so glad I was there to experience it. One off the bucket list and one to remember. 110
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Absolutely fantastic conditions for the total solar #eclipse where I am in northern Spain. The eagle-eyed among you (or those who saw the alt text) will have spotted that this is for 8pm *tomorrow* Today, it’s terrible - thick cloud cover. 100
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Nope - it’s been upgraded by the Spanish met office to “very cloudy. Tomorrow though…glorious. 🙄 000
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We’ve come to northern Spain where the weather is sub-optimal 😢 100
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We’ve come to northern Spain to experience 100%….100% cloud, more like 🙄 070
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Come to Northern Spain for the eclipse they said; it’s going to be great, they said.  24 hours before the eclipse, this is “partly cloudy”; tomorrow, it’s due to be “overcast” so I fear we will have travelled this far for nothing.  220
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Guess which bit of Spain I’m travelling to for the eclipse next week :-( 000
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I’m not sure I have many feelings about the app I use to submit my expenses; were any to somehow develop, I seriously doubt that “love” would be one of them. 051
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Zuckerberg understands me so well. I can think of nothing I’d like to do more with a photo of my kids getting themselves an ice cream than use an AI app to turn it into a tarot card 🤨 1112
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is curiously phrased? The next total solar eclipse isn’t “expected” on 23 Sept 2090 - it’s an astronomical certainty. So it WILL happen on 23/9/90 (barring astronomically unlikely events like the Moon moving off its current orbit because of an “accident” at the MuskTrump Space Base ™️ in 2078) 1122
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Finally - an exercise machine at an outdoor gym which promises me less a six pack and more a cup of tea. 0102
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Bagged another example for my training courses, where I use Arsenal videos to show basic mojo mistakes. 011
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Took me a moment to get this, as I tried to work out what a “fat clog” was and why anyone would ever cook one. 011
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Late July and it’s chucking it down. Typical British summer 🙄 320
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026On first reading this headline, did you think: A/ the teenager has started action against Meta B/ the teenager has ended the action against Meta? read the full article find out if you were right here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 110
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I’m sure the Golden Gate Bridge looked more…golden, the last time I was here? 210
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026How many people would be confused that using an iPhone 16e triggers an email about an iPhone 17,5? (And don’t get me started on the abomination that is 08.45pm) 210
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Quite the stat. Not even Spurs are as passive as Argentina. 1233505433
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Which do you prefer? The first one is was taken using Project Indigo from Adobe; then ZeroCam; then the native iPhone camera. 300
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026If only there was a suitable gif to celebrate this achievement with. 200