I’m several months behind with my podcast listening.
Christmas is now creeping onto the horizon, but corona virus isn’t, as yet
It’s quite nice
Children are more at risk from a car accident on the way to school than they are from Corona virus once they are there
It’s a good soundbite….but does it apply to the staff?
#wato
“Our political views are increasingly like our tastes - we want to indulge them”
- @gerardtbaker in @thetimes
The impression I get was John Paul I would have been more Paul, and John Paul II would have been more John
….and whether he was more Paul or more John
I wonder if Pope John Paul liked the Beatles
The pub garden of the abandoned Boat House
Sad, but kind of beautiful
RT @SJ_Watson: What thing did you resist for a long time, but then finally gave in, and now love?
I’ll go first. Pasta, and Radiohead.
RT @Clonehenge: “And did those feet in ancient time bounce upon England’s pastures green?”
If I try and do something up-tempo on a piano [rather than on a guitar], I sound like Chas and Dave
James Blunt on @sodajerker
I like James Blunt and I like Chas and Dave….but I find this difficult to believe
Lots of emergency vehicles, blue lights on, around Salisbury tonight
:(
RT @CaptainLimey: WEATHER ALERT: DUE TO HIGH WINDS, LARGE PARTS OF WILTSHIRE CAN NOW BE FOUND IN HAMPSHIRE. AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME PLEASE R…
RT @trainsongsbook: ‘Listen to the night streamliner, sounding like the wolves of hell’
- ‘Long Shadow’, one of the very last songs written…
Perhaps if I ever win the lottery I’ll hire the world’s best Elvis impersonator and the world’s best session musicians and get them to record a version
It wouldn’t be the same, though
Peter the Great.
Ivan the Terrible.
Catherine the Great.
Alexander the Blessed.
I wonder how he would feel about going down in history as Putin the Poisoner?
….but he never recorded “Blue Is the Colour”
One of life’s disappointments
Elvis recorded “You’ll Never Walk Alone”
open.spotify.com/track/4Qx… #NowPlaying
The thing I dislike about the word ‘creatives’ in this context is that it implies that people are either ‘creatives’, or presumably ‘non-creatives’
We can all be creative
RT @petercmoore: Watching Apollo 13. The film was made 25 years after the events depicted happened. And it’s now 25 years since the film wa…
To misquote the @PoguesOfficial…. it may not be the first day of March, but it is raining worse than anything that I have ever seen, more or less