Today is Saint Osmund’s Day
#OnThisDay in 1540 King Henry VIII took possession of Amesbury Abbey
“The problem with negotiating a successful Brexit plan is that too many people want too many different things.
It’s like the Women’s Institute having to work out how to share the Village Hall with a sex cult”
#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay
“Once parliament votes down the deal, the slow games will be over and we will move into quickfire decision-making. This is when all the contestants will have to play speed chess.”
#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay from the always-worth-reading @andrewrawnsley
1-0 up. A Reason to be #CHEFUL
#TodayILearned that Mrs Hudson wasn’t the housekeeper at 221b Baker Street, she was the landlady
(Via @barrycryer80 in the @RadioTimes )
Eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted Robert-Smith-from-The-Cure on cymbals
…which I still think of as ‘Loopy and the Bullshits’
‘Tis the season for Siouxsie and the Banshees
White rabbits
Today is Saint Andrews day
All (or at least most of) the road signs in Laverstock are white on blue rather than black because white on blue are the saints' colours
#OnThisDay in 2007 Salisbury-born Christopher Biggins (@onebiggins) won I’m A Celebrity, beating off competition from:
Janice Dickinson Jason ‘J’ Brown Cerys Matthews Gemma Atkinson Anna Ryder Richardson Rodney Marsh John Burton Race Lynne Franks Katie Hopkins & Marc Bannerman
#OnThisDay in 1976 Sir Alec Guinness opened the @salisburyplay theatre building
…and Laverstock is the Parish of Saint Andrews
#OnThisDay in 1979 Mike Oldfield released a tune called ‘Woodhenge’, as a B-side to his Blue Peter theme tune
#TodayILearned that The Bangles minor hit ‘Going Down to Liverpool’ was previously a Katrina and the Waves song
And before that is was recorded when they were just The Waves
#TodayILearned that why the woodpecker in ‘Bagpuss’ is called Professor Yaffle
Every day is, indeed, and school day
:)
RobGMacfarlane: Word of the day: “rain-bird” - common name for the green woodpecker (Picus viridis), because it was thought to herald bad weather. Also “yappingale” & “yaffle” (cf Professor Yaffle in Bagpuss) due to its laughing cry. A back-garden jester, in its fool’s cap of feathers..
My word of the day today has been ‘hankering’
I have to confess
I have read Treasure Island
Speculation seems to have moved on from ‘will parliament approve the @Conservatives’ deal?'