#TodayILearned that this is a pun

The Freeholder of @EHOldSarum got to decide who the MP was

….but the surname ‘Franklin’ is also derived from an old word for ‘Freeholder’

Matt Penny ⭐⭐ @salisbury_matt

#OnThisDay in 1774 Benjamin Franklin signed a letter to a paper:

Your humble Servant, A FREEHOLDER OF OLD SARUM.

I won’t be marshalling this year www.spirefm.co.uk/news/loca…

It’s that time of year when I get very alarmed about not having sorted anything out for Mothers Day…before realising those adverts are to do with American Mothers Day

#AnnualTweet

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RT @calvert_3: When has a male MP ever been told to watch his tone?

Is the new Corana Virus tracing app open source?

#BBCBreakfast

In case you missed these…my #sketchnotes of last week’s Powershell talks at #BridgeConf twitter.com/salisbury…

Flann O’Brien poem on the radio this morning

All too brief, but a nice way to start the day

#TodayILearned t.co/7TjMwVQLx…

And when Elvis sings Gospel I’m not so sure about my Agnosticism

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It really has to be the King

I never traveled 3000-odd miles to see the places that Shane MacGowan lived and recorded.

I have been in the Euston Tavern but I didn’t scream it was my shout

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‘P’ necessitated some soul-searching.

Pogues or Presley?

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My phrase of the day today is ‘a lick of paint’.

RT @JustinWGrote: @salisbury_matt One correction, Powershell up to 5.1 was .NET framework, 6 and up are .NET core

RT @JustinWGrote: @salisbury_matt There’s a comic! docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pow…

RT @qikipedia: ‘Bungalow’ comes from the Hindi word ‘bangla’, which directly translates to ‘Bengalese’, as in the 17th century the Bengales…

Many thanks to organizers and all the speakers (and sorry I missed a couple)

It was a great afternoon/evening/night

‘‘O’ is for Sinead O’Connor who has a voice that could make the Shipping Forecast sound interesting, but is so much more than that

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RT @SalisburyCath: At 8am this morning a peregrine chick emerged from its egg on our Cathedral tower. This comes just one day after our bui…

When a game-show host tells a contestant to ‘give my love to everyone in Renfrewshire’ and the contestant agrees… surely that’s going to be a lifetime’s work?

#BeatTheChasers