This is a first. I’m listening to a podcast which features one of my old college teachers
He hasn’t yet said ‘as a rather brilliant young undergraduate wrote back in 1986…’
My word of the day today is ‘genial’.
Sometimes I despair of humanity
“In the 1890s Gandhi was a racist….by the 1920s he was not a racist”
Andrew Rawnsley seems to me to be on the money:
“the prime minister’s end-of-austerity pledge has set a test for the chancellor that he cannot pass”
RT @CFCMatt8: That time of year when all the clocks in the house say a different time 😩
Much as I like snakes, and all God’s creatures, I don’t think I’ll ever get bored with seeing Neville Longbottom chopping Nagini in half
#HarryPotter
Only been in one of these.
Must try harder
It’s a terrible thing, to be caught in the rain
When the night closes in, on Salisbury Plain )
History is generally chaos. We look for patterns in the past…..but we just need to find them. It’s not because they’re there. - Jill Lepore
#OnThisDay in 1918 Cecil Chubb officially gave @EH_Stonehenge to the nation
Sir Alfred Mond said ‘Our ancestors have worshipped the sun when it rose. We today can turn our eyes to the sun of victory won so gallantly by the men who have gone out and fought and died for us’
Liverpool vs Red Star Belgrade
That’s a name that takes you back to football in the olden days…I’ve not heard much about Red Star for a while either
:)
After Brexit, the rise of the DUP, the trains going haywire, man-flu…..haven’t I suffered enough?
RT @jonathanwthomas: I’m not one to deal in conspiracy theories. But it sure is convenient that this ‘migrant caravan’ has magically appear…
RT @PSSouthampton: Join us Tuesday 20th November with @CPorteous and @pauby for sessions ‘The #PowerShell Standards Agency – Write better c…
Seamus was pleased with his new medal
Interesting doubles match today
Man flu and 10 miles of Pompey road vs. my good self and some day nurse capsules
Wish me luck!
#GreatSouthRun
#OnThisDay in 1816 an escaped circus lion attacked a mail coach at Winterslow, near Salisbury
RT @BrettMiller_IT: If you haven’t seen the #PowerShell Standards Agency then you should get along to @PSSouthampton for this and every oth…
You can keep your Last Nights of the Proms and your Royal Weddings……it’s this sort of nonsense that makes me proud to be British
:)
Paulieplayspop The petition for Margaret Thatcher to be the face of the £50 note currently has 12,852 signatures.
Meanwhile, the petititon for England & Leicester centre back Harry Maguire riding an inflatable unicorn on the £50 note has 27,827.
Who would you prefer