Daughter doing the intro to a @passengermusic song
For one tide only: modernist sandcastles – in pictures
“Market-day, and the thoroughfares about the market-place being filled with carts, horses, donkeys, baskets, waggons, garden-stuff, meat, tripe, pies, poultry and huckster’s wares of every opposite description and possible variety of character.”
«hopefully in a few months time!
If you don’t call it ‘Goggly-box’ then you need to have a good, long think about things
#Gogglebox
I’m not a fan or either the monarchy, or the Johnson-ite end of the Conservative Party….but I hope Charles, Boris, and Matt Hancock get well soon.
Also, I think it will be good to see high-profile people beating the virus.
Watching Chelsea score against Manchester United doesn’t boost your immunities as much as goals against Tottenham or Arsenal…..but every little helps
For me, ‘syrup’ is one of the words which brings to mind the rhyming slang meaning almost as quickly as the actual meaning. Barnet and butchers are probably the two others.
#TodayILearned that instant porridge-with-golden-syrup isn’t as golden syrup-y as instant porridge when I put my own golden syrup in.
Probably because I put in about half a bottle
RT @jprudeboy: Ian Dury dead 20 years today. What a magnificent artist he was! #reasonstobecheerful m.youtube.com/watch
RT @SalisburyCath: Tonight our spire is lit blue in honour of the incredible people working on the front line to fight #COVID2019.
#Thank…
This is a list of all the podcasts I’m subscribed* to in the ‘OPML’ format, which should be import-able into podcast-y apps
- I don’t listen to all the episodes of all the podcasts…some are a bit more ‘hunt and peck’ for stuff I’m interested in gist.github.com/mattypenn…
As much as anything else, it was nice to see a bunch of other people during the #clapforNHS
My word of the day today is ‘furlong’
You know when someone says that some football manager “doesn’t know what his best 11 is”?
I think this implies that neither did Ferguson, Ramsey, Revie, Wenger or Jose
“Salisbury Cathedral sticks out like a sore thumb above the rolling countryside. It’s like a five-star hotel for them.”
Today’s painting on our painting-a-day calendar is the 1908 ‘Absinthe Drinkers’ by Jean Beraud
It seems to feature Pete Doherty of the Libertines
Very much looking forward to going back to worrying about Brexit and VAR
In principle this is the same as in unix/linux so, but my calculations I’ve been making this mistake fairly regularly for the last 27 years
You know it’s time to knock it on the head for the day when you do this:
while ($LoadFailed = $True) {
#Powershell
(it should be -eq. Using ‘=’ assigns the value, so the while condition is always true and you get an infinite loop. Lovely.)
Watching video clips of Chelsea scoring against the Spurs also boosts your immunity levels twitter.com/ChrisMear…