“Few buildings evoke the sinister horror of 1950s municipal architecture more strikingly than the flat roof pub”
- @Ben_Aaronovitch
Currently trying, and I’m afraid sometimes failing, not to swear under my breath when I sit down or stand up
I’m blaming you @OfficialBigHalf
Also: ‘The trouble with these mile markers is that they’re too far apart’
Also overheard on the Big Half, on the skins of the Lucozade pods, which I thought were rather good
Runner to chums: “I don’t care if it is made from sea weed, I’m not swallowing it…as I’ve said about other things”
Further conversation ensued
I’m sure I’ve read fan magazines which are less…. gushing
I’m grateful whatever people say, really. I need al the encouragement I can get
There should be a manual for what to say to us strugglers and stragglers
Not before 8 miles: ‘You’ve got this’
Not before 10 miles: “started together/finishing together'
‘Looking good’…doesn’t matter when, because I’m clearl not!
Overheard on the Big Half
“We started together and we’ll finish together”
I’ve heard people say that more than once before
But not 3 miles in
Hope they did finish
Big half done
“Local authorities have had their money slashed by up to 40%. The idea that they could invest in courts and facilities is, I am afraid, pie in the sky.”
RT @petercmoore: I’ve strewn a couple of tons of gravel across my football team’s pitch because we always win cup ties on aggregate.
Mouth says ‘Could I have a coffee, please?’
Brain saying ‘GIVE ME CAFFEINE!!!!! NOW!!!’
My word of the day today is ‘ocelot’
“This is one of the things about politics that is rarely acknowledged; the way a whole bunch of people gathered together toward a common goal can start to seriously chip away at each other’s sense of reality. "
<< this is true of more than just politics!
“US librarian and critic Nancy Pearl once laid out the “Rule of 50”: if you’re 50 years old or younger, give a book at least 50 pages before giving up on it; if you’re over 50, subtract your age from 100 and use that number instead.”
<< quite like that
RT @Pontifex: The #ashes we receive on our foreheads remind us that, as God’s children, we cannot spend our lives chasing after dust.
#TodayILearned that my first tutor at university was Oliver Letwin’s dad
He was a nice chap.
Surely a ‘holiday from hell’ would be a good thing.
A ‘holiday to hell’ would be pretty bad though.
#TodayILearned that the man who wrote Quatermass and the woman who wrote The Tiger Who Came To Tea were husband and wife
My word of the day today is ‘engrossed’.