I don’t know one end of a tennis bat from another, but the idea of having top singles players playing doubles in the same tournament has always struck me as odd
It’s as if England or Germany squeezed in the odd game of five-a-side during the World Cup
#OnThisDay in 1899 Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth arrived in Salisbury
#OnThisDay in 2010 an Honorary Consulate of the Republic of the Maldives was opened in Salisbury in the Friary
My word of the day today is ‘befuddled’
As I’ve probably tweeted before in this poster Barnum and Bailey remind me of the Wizard of Oz, and Lenin
Some more Barnum and Bailey posters from around the time
To be honest, I’m not in the target market either for pork products or for prospective Leaders of the Conservative Party
I’m slightly* germaphobic about raw meat….but I’m sure draping it around your neck isn’t a very good idea
*‘Slightly’ meaning absolutely-screaming-paranoid
I enjoyed #SpiderManFarFromHome, particularly the bits in that there London. I’m glad they left Waterloo alone though. Would’ve been chaos on the trains
RT @tortoise: “We talk as if Ricky Gervais is in a prison for making these jokes. He’s got a lot of money and no-one has ever censored him.…
Thomas Nash: ‘A dreame is nothing els but a bubling scum or froath of the fancie, which the day hath left undigested; or an after feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations’
RT @RichardBenyonMP: Worth a read. Brilliant from @ClareFoges in @thetimes. t.co/0pLdeRnpc…
“A truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman arrogance, toffishness & twittishness. But at the time you felt it was wonderful to be going round swanking it up.”
2013 looking back on his time at Oxford
Or 2023 looking back on his time are Westminster?
Shocking image of child doing homework without headphones plugged in :) twitter.com/TVRav/sta…
RT @SteveClaridge: We need to stop saying “oh its only Boris” when he messes up, forgetting all the lies and bullshit and realise he’s a da…
RT @salisbury_matt: A memo from the Chairman
Please read.
Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra
Written by my father in 1991:
1.“I’m a saloon singer, by self-definition. Even my mirror would never accuse me of inventing wisdom. But I do claim enough street smarts to know that hatred is a disease-a disease in the body of freedom, eating its way from the inside out,
2/ infecting all who come in contact with it, killing dreams and hopes of millions of innocents with words, as surely as if they were bullets….
“Take a minute. Consider what we are doing to each other as we rob friends and strangers of dignity as well as equality…
3/For if we don’t come to grips with this killer disease of hatred, of bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism, pretty soon we will destroy from within this blessed country….
4/ “Don’t just lip-sync the words to the song. Think them, live them. ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty.’ And when the music fades, think of the guts of Rosa Parks, who by a single act in a single moment changed America as much as anyone who ever lived….
5/ “I’m no angel. I’ve had my moments. I’ve done a few things in my life of which I’m not too proud, but I have never unloved a human being because of race, creed, or color.
6/ And if you think this is a case of he who doth protest too much, you’re wrong. I couldn’t live any other way….” ~ Frank Sinatra 1991
It feels to me as if this was the week that the Leavers jumped the shark twitter.com/BBCNewsni…
A memo from the Chairman
Please read.
Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra Written by my father in 1991:
1.“I’m a saloon singer, by self-definition. Even my mirror would never accuse me of inventing wisdom. But I do claim enough street smarts to know that hatred is a disease-a disease in the body of freedom, eating its way from the inside out, 9:33 PM · Jul 4, 2019 Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 2/ infecting all who come in contact with it, killing dreams and hopes of millions of innocents with words, as surely as if they were bullets….
“Take a minute. Consider what we are doing to each other as we rob friends and strangers of dignity as well as equality… Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 3/For if we don’t come to grips with this killer disease of hatred, of bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism, pretty soon we will destroy from within this blessed country…. Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 4/ “Don’t just lip-sync the words to the song. Think them, live them. ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty.’ And when the music fades, think of the guts of Rosa Parks, who by a single act in a single moment changed America as much as anyone who ever lived…. Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 5/ “I’m no angel. I’ve had my moments. I’ve done a few things in my life of which I’m not too proud, but I have never unloved a human being because of race, creed, or color. Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 6/ And if you think this is a case of he who doth protest too much, you’re wrong. I couldn’t live any other way….” ~ Frank Sinatra 1991
Happiness is a well air-conditioned train carriage
Thank you @SW_Railway
#TodayILearned that James Joyce’s wife, Nora, used to call him ‘Jimmy’