August 1st (or possibly 6th) is the Feast of Saint Peter in Chains. It’s the day on which some land (sometimes ‘Lammas Lands’) became common land every year
This is probably the derivation of the name of Petersfinger, near Salisbury
#OTD #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay in 1973 an entry fee at Salisbury Cathedral was introduced for ‘an experimental period’ of two months
#OnThisDay in 1086 the Domesday Book was presented to William the Conqueror at the Great Gamot at @EHOldSarun
#OnThisDay in 1849 @thetimes wrote of the cholera in Salisbury
“the sickness is not confined to a particular quarter, but pervades the whole city.
Deaths occurred in nearly every street, & some of those streets considered the most respectable have been the most heavily visited”
#TodayILearned that Gavin Williamson is only “the second education secretary to have attended a comprehensive school”
In which Jacob Rees-Mogg “brings his cosplay nostalgia for a world he didn’t experience to Planet Football”
#OnThisDay in 1625 Salisbury Council ‘took rigorous steps to prevent strangers bringing the plague into Salisbury.’
#OnThisDay in 1861 the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia visited Salisbury
26th June, our new Prime Minister:
I think it is a million-to-one against [a no-ďeal Brexit]
28th July, Michael Gove:
The government is now “working on the assumption” of a no-deal Brexit,
I wish I’d put a fiver on it!
RT @petercmoore: @salisbury_matt m.youtube.com/watch
Wondering whether the leader of the Scottish @Conservatives is a doomster, a gloomster or a doubter?
““When she resigned in 2017, Patel spoke of her failure to uphold the necessary ‘standards of transparency and openness’. It appears she has done so again.”
Never mind Who Wants to be a Millionaire….#TheLateishShow is giving away a year’s supply of doughnuts
Now that’s a prize worth winning
#TodayILearned that “estimates say that up to 8 percent of males (and .5 percent of females) have issues seeing some colors” twitter.com/SOZDBA/st…
Apparently there’s a new car called a ‘Ranger Raptor’
I’m probs not in the target market, but I’d be a bit embarrassed to own a ‘Ranger Raptor’..a bit like ‘Jack Wolfskin’
It has the hashtag #NoObstacles, though, so it must have some magic way of avoiding traffic, roadworks etc
I have no idea which one’s which….but they’re fab twitter.com/BBCRadio4…
On the whole, I’ve never really been interested in other people’s businesses, but for some reason I’ve always been fascinated by supermarkets
Also obviously Margot James is one of the good guys
Obviously I normally avoid clichés like the plague
‘‘Dark and edgy’ is a massive cliché for describing films and music and whatnot…. but I think it works really well as a description of the new Cabinet