I can hear the big guns firing out on Salisbury Plain.

It reminds me of the cannons going off in Great Expectations after Magwitch has escaped

Or something

My word of the day today is ‘tardy’

I think I may have something in my eye… twitter.com/goal/stat…

RT @dannykellywords: “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power deri…

Fine work today by the headline writers at @theipaper t.co/i4NirhzQh…

“Johnson signed up to what is largely May’s deal, except instead of a backstop there is a front stop.

The deal just signs Northern Ireland up to what would have happened in the event of the backstop kicking in.”

nicktyrone.com/what-happ…

Powershell’s Get-EventLog seems to me to run a lot faster than it used to

My word of the day today is ‘besmirch’

I can only think of two Christmas songs that I don’t much like

Elton’s Step Into Christmas and It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Everything else is marvellous

imho

RT @Pinotnoirgirl: Who has seen Boris in #Salisbury then? Loads of police outside the office and lots of shouting!!

#TodayILearned that to show all the commits (including messages) for a particular file you do

git log –follow – <filename>

Very pretty sunrise this morning

One of the benefits of being up early because train strike

My word of the day today is ‘scruple’

#TodayILearned that this inserts today’s date in vim

:put=strftime('%d %B %Y')

My word of the day today is ‘gratitude’

I just heard Paul McCartney say that Ticket to Ride was inspired by John and him going on holiday to Ryde on the Isle of Wight

I think he might have been taking the pyss, though

castbox.fm/episode/G…

RT @carltonreid: Coverage of Boris Johnson’s plagiarism from ⁦@BarristerSecret⁩ goes international. www.newsweek.com/boris-joh…

Apostrophe society admits it’s defeat

:)

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2…

RT @qqtx: The BBC should just keep repeating the @BorisJohnson interview from @eddiemair until such time as Johnson turns up for Andrew Nei…

RT @jessphillips: So Boris Johnson just said that Queens speech was blocked by Parliament. I must have been in a different room or he’s lyi…