I like the combination of an upbeat pop tune with a really miserable lyric. Very Abba

Due to ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE public demand I’m planning to tweet a daily-ish #AtoZOfMyFavouriteBands

The first two acts are about as mainstream, and as, obvious as you can get, but I’ve picked a relatively obscure song.

open.spotify.com/track/3R4…

#OnThisDay in 1969 Desmond Dekker played at the Alex Disco in Salisbury

Dolly Parton is a pop genius and a good egg

www.theguardian.com/music/202…

Daughter and chum doing Down by the Salley Gardens

www.instagram.com/p/B-cqqyM…

#OnThisDay in 1899 the Automobile Club visited Stonehenge

You can’t park quite so close anymore

#OnThisDay in 2009 Salisbury District Council was abolished

#TodayILearned that Windows Power Toys include a Markdown Preview for Windows Explorer

(via @howtogeek)

www.howtogeek.com/665780/al…

Watching @ChelseaFC beat Arsenal in European finals gives a double boost to your immunities

Should say ‘can’ take you as far as the Close

If your daily exercise can’t take you as far as @SalisburyCath Close there’s some nice sculptures

#Powershell to get a listof how many files are being written per day

dir c:\temp -file | select-object @{Label=‘DateOfFile’;E={get-date $_.LastWriteTime -format ‘ddd dd/MM/yyyy’}} | group-object -property DateOfFile | ? Name -notlike “S*” | select count, name t.co/yYOCS4e71…

If I’m totally honest I much prefer his house to his films

www.theguardian.com/film/2020…

I, for one, welcome our new goat-y overlords

www.theguardian.com/news/2020…

White rabbits

#Powershell to get a list of the different data types (I think) within an object

….should you ever want such a thing

$Object | get-member | select-object @{L=‘Deffo’; E={$_.definition.split()[0]}} | group-object -property Deffo t.co/yrRNgw5AA…

#OnThisDay in 1851 a census was taken, showing Sailsbury had a population of 11,657

My phrase of the day today is ‘effing and jeffing’.

You would expect a band called ‘The Brotherhood of Man’ to be prog-rock, or perhaps earnest folk-y types

Are there any other really #MisnamedBands?

open.spotify.com/track/0E1…

#PictureOfSouthLondon I got this off Wikipedia, but it’s where I used to live and I loved it

By Reading Tom from Reading, UK - Catford Centre, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.p…