As a vegetarian I’m uneasy about the abbatoir reference…and aren’t unicorns protected as an endangered species?
Still #BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay though
My word of the day today is ‘wondrous’
#OnThisDay in 1952 Vikram Seth, author of ‘A Suitable Boy’, was born in Kolkata. He lives near Salisbury
#OnThisDay in 1897 the celebrations for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee began in Salisbury
🎼He’s coming home, He’s coming home, Frankie’s coming home twitter.com/standards…
#TodayILearned that there is an @ansible module to apply windows updates
(following on from @jonathanmedd’s talk at @PSSouthampton last night)
Only tangentially related to Brexit but it still has to be #BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay twitter.com/Otto_Engl…
I’m reading Good Omens…and I quite like this
#TodayILearned that sea gulls can live for 30 years
Mary Gauthier:
“Once you get past the personal to the deeply, deeply personal, then you’ve hit the universal”
RT @mitdasein: What if humans aren’t the ones the extraterrestrials come to see?
Nice to see @Calteck10 in the West Stand tonight
#cfc @socceraid
Back at the home of English football for @socceraid
“I am a giant (Ooh) Stand up on my shoulders, tell me what you see”
I can only see a little bit more than you to be honest because I’m normal size and you’re already, like, a giant
#OnThisDay in 1866 the @BathandWest show opened at the Butts in Salisbury (opposite the Fire Station).
28,025 people attended
#TodayILearned that a ‘bottle episode’ of a TV series is one with only 2 or 3 characters and only one location
Via the wonderfully funny Life on Egg
#OnThisDay in 1973 David Bowie played @CityHallSalis
#OnThisDay in 1990 Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine played at Salisbury Arts Centre
Churchill on being asked about allying with Stalin:
“If Hitler invaded hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons”
Right @ChelseaFC, next season I shall be asking you to clinch the title on the next to last game of the season.
9th May. Away at Anfield.
Please