The Accursed Hill, not looking very accursed tonight, tbh
A song by Tom Waits just popped up on spotify called “God’s Away on Business”. I only like a couple of bits of Tom Waits' stuff but that’s a cracking title.
Semi-annual-ish tweet to the effect that the Equinox always reminds me of this youtu.be/XDM1bZz3g…
They used to say that if you give the rich more money they tend to spend it on holidays abroad and antiques, which don’t do much for our economy
You can add sports and pop memorabilia to ‘antiques’ but the point is still valid
#MiniBudget #trickledown
If I hear someone from the government use the word ‘unleash’ once more…..I may tut rather loudly
My word of the day today is ‘dusk’.
My word of the day today is ‘antelope’.
#TodayILearned that ‘Jackanory’ “comes from an old English nursery rhyme:
I’ll tell you a story About Jack a Nory, And now my story’s begun I’ll tell you another Of Jack and his brother, And now my story is done.”
I think this was my favourite place to see bands….although I’m not quite old enough to have seen Joe Loss there
I’m feeling nostalgic..and wondering what other people’s favourite venues are/were?
Somewhat belatedly here are my #Sketchnotes from the @PSSouthampton and @lonpsug. I’m well out of practice. The talks were all great…but my notes are of varying quality
My word of the day today is ‘dainty’.
Paddington 1 is better than Paddington 2
I will not be taking questions at this time.
#TodayILearned that the ‘Newfoundland English’ accent (or dialect?) is most influenced by the way the language is spoken in South West England and South East Ireland
At some stage, I shall write a powershell cmdlet with an alias like ‘diru’, or something, which turns the below into a unc path and does get-childitem on it
dir ServerName C:\Program Files\Some Bit Of Software\130\License Terms\Latest Terms.Rtf
My word of the day today is ‘gander’.
1966, 2012, the Lionesses winning the Euros this year…..they were all OK.
But today is the three-month anniversary of me beating Kid Two on the penalty shootout machine at the @FootballMuseum, and that puts it all into perspective.
#TodayILearned* that in @MicrosoftTeams if I want to put a ‘’ at the start of a line without it being interpreted as a Markdown-y bullet point, then I can put a space in front of the ‘’
- this is kind of obvious….but I didn’t realize until today, so for me it was a Learning
My word of the day today is ‘lurk’.
I like this: 16 bad things decreasing - including legal slavery, oil spills, battle deaths, disaster deaths, lead in petrol, hiv, hunger, nuclear weapons, and the cost of solar panels
I like it when people spell and pronounce ‘curse’ as ‘cuss’.
It makes it seem percussive. Good swearing should be percussive.