#OnThisDay the a user called Isis-Enwiki created the Wikipediia page for ‘Salisbury’
The initial version just had a picture of @SalisburyCat, but this was soon followed by the text
“Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire in England”
#OnThisDay in 1856 Queen Victoria and Albert visited Salisbury
“The Mayor and Corporation received the Royal party at the railway station, and they were escorted to the White Hart Hotel by a detachment of the 11th Hussars, who had arrived in Salisbury.”
I don’t know much about Greta Thunberg but she does get up the noses of a certain sort of person
I detoured via Gas Lane this morning
RT @gwilsoncfc: Champions of Europe you’re having a larf ….
#GeekyThingsAboutMe
I own both editions of this book
RT @MuseumCromwell: #OnThisDay 12 August 1647 the infamous and self-styled ‘Witchfinder General’ Matthew Hopkins died in his home town of M…
I’m not bothered about the wine or the tomatoes, but I shall be rioting in the streets if cheese supplies are disrupted
:)
Nice story from Sir Ian Kennedy of IPSA on @IainDale’s podcast
An MP was pulled up for including a red rose on a constituency letter, as political symbols are not allowed
His reply:
a) it’s the red rose of Lancashire not of Labour, and
b) I’m a Tory
#OnThisDay in 1849 Dr Finch’s letter about the Salisbury cholera epidemic appeared in the Times.
“I visited this poor human creature in the last stage of spasmodic cholera. She had no covering but a thin counterpane and the skeleton of one blanket.”
I’ve got a set of scripts I use for checking things called CheckSystems.
I do regret not calling them OkComputer
I saw ‘Yesterday’ yesterday at Salisbury @ODEONCinemas
Wouldn’t mind seeing it again tomorrow
Fab.
RT @NomadKeith: @salisbury_matt @BBCRadio4 There are some that work …. one of my favourites is Andy McNab’s ‘embuggerance’
RT @brooky02: After every disappointment comes great joy…. I’ve been a Chelsea fan for 40 years now… I know.
#MUNCHE went a bit Munch
Stuff happens
We had a good go at them. I’d rather that and get tonked than ‘play like an away team’ and lose 1-0
#MUNCHE
#WinOrLoseUpTheBlues
Should have brought Tammy Abraham back 12 months ago!
RT @qqtx: 50p coins.
Ah, for the days when we knew them as £1 coins.
Brexit enforcer Cummings’ farm took €235,000 in EU handouts
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1901 1901, Annie Moberly, daughter of George Moberly the Bishop of Salisbury, saw Marie Antoinette in the grounds os Versailles Palace, more than 100 years after her death