An incredible performance is better than a ‘not credible’ performance

Clementine Churchill on the 1945 election defeat:

“It may well be a blessing in disguise”

Winston:

“At the moment it seems very well disguised.”

Via @aroberts_andrew

www.historyextra.com/period/20…

That all-too-short, precious time in the year.

The shops have got mince pies and hot cross buns AT THE SAME TIME!

:)

I thought the vegan sausage roll protest was fake to be honest, but now I feel we should organise counter-demo against black puddings or something

RT @Alice_Kiernan: Lots of talk over the past few weeks about the representation of Irish female musicians in the Irish media and music sce…

RT @Sumblokeintheuk: @chappie1963 Our secret weapon t.co/l7OV5V0LF…

RT @TheBlues___: I’m literally in tears t.co/ZVPZN2lJx…

RT @mwilliamson5014: I took my Son out for his first pint. Got him a Fosters. He didn’t like it - I had it. Then I got him Carlsberg, he di…

RT @THSTOfficial: Stewards and police confiscated the BT SPORT: FA CUP KILLERS flag on the instruction of the broadcaster. Freedom of expre…

View from the train

“Now, you know, Elvis is in my household. But there’s other records in the crates.

And there are greater artists that’s in the crates - not to say he was whack. He was a very talented dude. But…

The Isley Brothers are my heroes, not these people.”

#TodayILearned that Public Enemy’s ‘Fight the Power’ was partly inspired by a song by the Isley Brothers

www.npr.org/templates…

RT @ekaterinalondon: I often think of this picture when I pass Stonehenge 😍

RT @ianwalker: Just paid my first increased rail care of 2019. But fuel duty for motoring is still frozen, yes?

RT @LondonCallingUK: Have you ever seen anything as spectacular as Salisbury Cathedral’s ‘From Darkness to Light’ winter illuminations? Fin…

I thought Flann O’Brien had two n’s in Flann

Unless this pub in Bath is named after another Flan

Transferring from PC to my @Sony Walkman broke just before Christmas.

Switched from mtp to msc(?) driver …and it seems to have fixed it

:)

musiccenter.sony.net/en/instru…

#GBBO The word ‘ganache’ always makes me think of this chap

#TodayILearned that git status -s gives a more usefully formatted view of changes in a repository

www.theguardian.com/technolog…