Today I have been mainly forgetting to re-import the module after ‘fixing’ the code….and failing to notice that I have mis-spelt ‘latest’ as ‘lastest’
Neither of these has been improving my mood very much
“..told all the government’s special advisors that if they leaked anything to the newspapers, he would personally intervene to find out who they are and then sack them. So terrified were they of this news that it was itself leaked within about 10 minutes”
“You’re have to be reasonably clever to understand how stupid you actually are”
- either Fi Glover or Jane Garvey (it took me several years to work out which one was Ant and which one was Dec)
#OnThisDay in 1983 Black Sabbath released their LP ‘Born Again’. It featured a song called ‘Stonehenge’, which inspired a rather wonderful @Clonehenge-y stage set
Or I’ll scream and scream and scream
Annual tweet to say that I’m sorry I was late back after lunch but I was busy eating my own bodyweight in blackberries
My word of the day today is ‘resonate’
#OnThisDay in 1903 Buffalo Bill brought his Wild West show to Salisbury
#OnThisDay in 1723 William Stukeley recorded his observation of the @EH_Stonehenge cursus
“As we transition into a parallel universe of a Johnson government running purely on the fumes of propaganda, watch the pound. It will be your lie detector test.”
#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay
Jogged past the old house last night
It was much bigger when I was 5
#OnThisDay in 1873 between 20,000 and 25,000 people came to Wilton Foresters’ Fete to see the great tightrope walker Blondin walk a 60ft high tightrope.
Admission was 1 shilling
Blondin cooked and ate bacon and eggs on the rope
And I want cabinet ministers to ‘literally feel slightly worried’ before they launch their own foreign policy initiative behind the Prime Minister’s back
RT @TeaAndCopy: One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl Four for a boy Five for silver Six to speak to customer services Seven to hear…
I really enjoyed the new Fast and Furious film last night
Marvellously silly or sillily marvellous
Or both
This morning I have been mainly listening to The Sisters of Mercy
I may be in a slightly odd mood
Possibly favourite bit of cricket writing….there probably aren’t many tweets I remember 6 years on
David Hepworth @davidhepworth My favourite form of cricket - Yorkshiremen hit the ball and Australians fetch it.
Is there a real difference in meaning between re-writing and re-factoring?
#TodayILearned that Don Maclean (the Crackerjack bloke) is a Knight of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Pope St Sylvester (a Papal Kinght).
Was discussing hobbies at work, and, given sport doesn’t really count , I came to the conclusion that my best hobby is ‘seeing if I can get Alexa to understand me while I’ve got a mouth stuffed full of food’
I’m getting quite good at it.
Or she is.