RT @HeritageWSHC: Likewise ‘bug’ is another name for a hobgoblin – found in ‘Bugmore’ marsh near Fisherton; and ‘grim’ – derived from an ol…

RT @robofsalisbury: @salisbury_matt A great tradition! I was privileged to sing it six times. I also sang it when I was on the. Commons Def…

Essential reading for all Salisbury #GE2019 candidates, as someone typically asks if they know the words

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_…

If I was John Glen I would be worried about the Brexit Party bloke splitting his vote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juli…

I was in a Lebanese restaurant yesterday and had pickled turnip

I feel we should appropriate pickled turnip as the National Dish of Wiltshire

RT @tanyamotie: UK Government: Build memorial to remember the victims of the slave trade - Sign the Petition! chng.it/2jLsGjyc via @…

RT @scandalwomen: #OTD: In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing panic & anxiety in so…

I sometimes wonder whether Sir Tim and his colleagues might one day echo Oppenheimer

“If we had known we would all have been locksmiths”

Tim Berners-Lee @timberners_lee Today the internet is 50 years old.

The internet & the web it enabled have changed billions of lives for the better. But their power for good is under threat.

This birthday must mark the moment we take on the fight for the web we want.

webfoundation.org/2019/10/a…

#Internet50

True.

But I can’t help feeling that Git is ‘Shiny, Shiny’ to Linux’s ‘John Wayne is Big Leggy’

The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation “Git proved I am not a one-hit wonder.” - Linus Torvalds #ossummit

No disrespect….Both things are marvellous - just Linux is a bigger deal imho

#TodayILearned that Miriam Margolyes did the voice of the Cadbury’s Caramel bunny

Via the podcast of @JohnBishop100’s interview show play.acast.com/s/johnbis…

#TodayILearned that the British newspapers are the least trusted of 33 European countries' newspapers

(Via an old-ish podcast conversation between @JohnBishop100 and @JohnCleese)

www.pressgazette.co.uk/survey-fi…

I don’t know anything about Baseball….but Go Nats! twitter.com/TheDailyE…

My least favourite musician doesn’t seem to like my favourite newspaper amp.theguardian.com/music/201…

RT @Clonehenge: They’re turning the clocks back in the UK and that means we get to see all the posts where Avebury gets called Stonehenge.

RT @ChrisMears1: Can’t think of any famous NZ people but your boys have taken one hell of a beating #ENGvNZL

I don’t know much about Rugby-ball but that looked more convincing than Leicester did last night

#ENGvNZL

“Manchester City, we’re coming for you,” came the ironic chant from crestfallen supporters before the final whistle. "

www.theguardian.com/football/…

RT @CFCROYALBLUE: Liquidator by Harry J All stars entered the UK charts 50 years ago today. They couldn’t have imagined how popular it woul…