RT @paulineblack: RIP Roger Charlery aka Ranking Roger.
“Goodnight sweet prince. And flights…
Quote copied front @BromleyEsq’s piece in the Journal about Starbridge, Melchester, Kingsbridge and Anderbury
In the book the city is ‘Anderbury’
“Anderbury looks, to the casual eye, like a picturesque place to live. Quaint cobbled streets, tea shops and semi-famous cathedral…as well as the cathedral there was a market square with a big Debenhams.”
Just started reading this book…and it seems good. @StephenKing says it’s @StephenKing-ish.
But I’m not sure if my nerves are up to reading a horror story set in Salisbury
I read this as “Brexit options harrowing”
RT @NomadKeith: @salisbury_matt The only instrumental to get banned by US radio stations! 😀
#TodayILearned that the fingerprints of koala bears are ‘virtually indistinguishable’ from those of humans www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay
They are getting wierder
www.theguardian.com/commentis…
It always reminds me of the ‘Rumble’ guy - the great Link Wray
There’s a similarly named road near where I live
On my way to a Disaster Recovery test, somewhere in Surrey, or possibly Hampshire
They’ve built a whole new pub, just to make make me feel at home
:)
Unpopular opinion.
When people begin a tweet with the words ‘unpopular opinion’, the opinion expressed is sometimes actually quite popular.
Perfect free kick from Mr Berkley
Browsing on Wikimedia Commons and found this stained glass from @SalisburyCath. I’ve never seen it
My word of the day today is ‘extrusion’
I enjoyed this tweet, presumably inspired by the crisps programme. I very much fear that I’ve missed out twitter.com/youngvulg…
Didn’t manage to see it….I hope it’s available on catchup!
A @NewYorker review says:
Five hundred years later, in Queen Isabella’s Spain, the queen was transformed from a timid lady mincing one diagonal step at a time into what one shocked Italian bishop called a “bellicose virago.”
#TodayILearned that the power of the Queen in the game of chess was inspired by the power of Isabella I of Castile, possibly
Via @whjm and @HistoryExtra - www.historyextra.com/period/mo…
There’s a show on the television tonight called Britain’s Favourite Crisps
I’m going to have to watch a few minutes, at least