I tweeted this quote from @Kasparov63 in February last year.
I didn’t think it would be relevant to Salisbury
Matt Penny ⭐⭐ @salisbury_matt When people ask me how to understand the Putin regime, I tell them to read Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather’
- Gary Kasparov on Desert Island Discs
Salisbury dreams of a calm 2019
RT @StonehengeWalks: Stonehenge: Last owner’s letter found inside book www.bbc.com/news/uk-e…
May your Gods go with you through 2019
This is Rex Whistler’s painting ‘First Lady Mayor of wilton’
#OnThisDay in 1900 one of the @EH_Stonehenge trilithon’s fell during ‘a howling gale’
Edith Olivier was related to the actor Laurence
She also had an affinity with, as Wikipedia puts it, ‘Things past explaining’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit…
#OnThisDay in 1872 Edith Olivier, the ‘First Lady Mayor of Wilton’, was born. She was friends with Cecil Beaton, Annie Moberly, Rex Whistler, Stephen Tennant, Augustus John and various other art-y types artuk.org/discover/…
Can something really be both new, and improved?
RT @petercmoore: @salisbury_matt BBC News - Unseen photos of East End London in glorious colour www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-p…
Perhaps more Spurs players should get OBEs
Can I sum up my year using only emojis?
No. I’m 54
Happy birthday to a great poet of London, and Ireland - Shane Macgowan
#OnThisDay in 1873 Mark Twain visited @SalisburyCath “- the loveliest pile of stone that can be imagined”, @EH_Stonehenge - “one of the most mysterious & satisfactory ruins I have ever seen” and @EHOldSarum
He stayed at the White Hart
God bless us
Every one
There were no drones.
It’s an alien invasion
People rightly complain about @premierleague footballers earning too much money
@michaelsokolove tells a cautionary tale of college basketball - a multi-billion dollar sport where the players get very little
My opinion FWIW is that the problem on Saturday wasn’t so much the psychology of the players but the lack of a centre forward for most of the match
The ‘no centre forward’ thing will take a while to work in think
“Maurizio Sarri will consider drafting a psychologist on to his coaching staff after suggesting his Chelsea players are suffering from a mental block within matches.”
I would have assumed that all Premiership teams employed sports psychologists
I wouldn’t have guessed back in the ’80s that the Irish-punk-skiffle band that I liked would be played on the radio and in supermarkets and everywhere every Christmas for the rest of my life