I think the GPS in the Nokia is a bit iffy..its a fairly cheap phone

I still see all this technology as magical - but it’s something to be aware of if you’re aiming for a specific distance

The daughter doing ‘Girl Crush’

www.instagram.com/p/B7Wlzsg…

“‘Silver’ lifts you up on a cacophony of angelic vocals and glorious heavenly tones. All 3 songs could quite easily have been pulled from the soundtrack to a Hollywood fantasy film, such is the way they build emotion & send you to a completely new place”

www.facebook.com/SoundsOfS…

Very, very sad

Absolutely devastated

www.theguardian.com/football/…

#TodayILearned that there are two giants in Jack and the Beanstalk and they are called Blunderbore and Thunderdel

blog.english-heritage.org.uk/a-short-h…

“On Tuesday, the prime minister said the government was “working up a plan so people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong”. However, it transpired that there was no such plan”

#BrexitBong

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It looks a bit flooded under Castle Street railway bridge.

As per a previous tweet

It’s more complicated than they thought

It would cost a lot of money

…and it’s someone else’s fault #BrexitBong

There’s a new feature in Powershell called a ‘ternary operator’

Claude Monet, he was a Turner-y operator

Awful joke. Sorry.

When Super Frank Lampard eventually resigns as @ChelseaFC manager, having won everything there is to win, and him and @morriskid go on to manage England to World Cup glory….when that happens I can imagine @juanmata8 as Chelsea manager

My word of the day today is ‘liniment’.

Better still….you can do it through T-sql

– creates a local job category named AdminJobs
USE msdb ;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_add_category
@class=N’JOB',
@type=N’LOCAL',
@name=N’AdminJobs' ;
GO

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql…

My work of the day today is ‘pernickety’, or possibly ‘persnickety’.

My word of the day today is ‘dumpling’.

It will be “Arise, Sir Tammy”

www.theguardian.com/football/…

“John McDonnell, I will join you.

I will lie down in front of those bulldozers and stop the construction of that third runway”

Boris Johnson, 8th May 2015

www.theguardian.com/environme…

Did Sid ever buy any shares in British Gas?

m.youtube.com/watch

Similary, I am slightly ‘excessilogiphobic’ …..which means I’m afraid of made-up words which are more complicated than saying ‘fear of X’

To be honest I’m not over-keen on collective nouns anyway - I’d say a ‘flock’ of starlings

I would say the collective noun for collective nouns should be a ‘contrivance’ of collective nouns

Why is it a ‘murmuration’ of starlings rather than a ‘murmur’of starlings? [