Was reminded today of wandering into a shop in Covent Garden back in the 1980s and buying a postcard off a bloke who looked an awful lot like one of Monty Python.

#TodayILearned that Lee Child’s grandad sold the house on Cyprus Avenue in Belfast to Van Morrisson’s dad

www.abc.net.au/radio/pro…

RT @ProfessorUnwin: Goodly morlode tweeploppers.

The first snowlydroppits now dangly milkymost bloomage, and croclus and daffydillers poki…

I really like Arrizabalaga, even if I can’t spell him #CHENEW

.@passengermusic quoting the title of Cat Stevens' song:

“The first cut is the deepest but the rest still flipping hurt”

“Calling Trump a fascist is sloppy…and it let’s him off the hook”

@wmarybeard on www.the-tls.co.uk/freedom-b…

Good!

www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/1735…

Some nice ‘trucker slang’ from this podcast. People who drive:

Flatbed trucks - skateboarders Hazmat haulers - suicide jockeys Removals vans - bedbuggers Ambulances - bone boxes Livestock lorries - chicken chokers Motorcyclists - organ donors

www.npr.org/2018/02/1…

We’re going to build a wall and the mysterious-radio-signal-alien guys are going to pay for it!

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld “There could be more out there” 🔭 Mysterious radio signals detected from distant galaxy

Boohoo faux faux fur

www.theguardian.com/media/201…

RT @DanOB1986: I have updated information from @wiltscouncil about what’s happening to the Salisbury home of Sergei Skripal, the former Rus…

Was this: m.youtube.com/watch

I never met him….but I did get to ask Joe Strummer what his favourite Elvis song was, via @QMagazine’s Cash for Questions thing

#TodayILearned that the first of Ireland’s divorce referendums was lost (or won) by the equivalent of one vote in each ballot box

Via @PaulineMcLynn1 on player.fm/series/st…

An incredible performance is better than a ‘not credible’ performance

Clementine Churchill on the 1945 election defeat:

“It may well be a blessing in disguise”

Winston:

“At the moment it seems very well disguised.”

Via @aroberts_andrew

www.historyextra.com/period/20…

That all-too-short, precious time in the year.

The shops have got mince pies and hot cross buns AT THE SAME TIME!

:)

I thought the vegan sausage roll protest was fake to be honest, but now I feel we should organise counter-demo against black puddings or something

RT @Alice_Kiernan: Lots of talk over the past few weeks about the representation of Irish female musicians in the Irish media and music sce…

RT @Sumblokeintheuk: @chappie1963 Our secret weapon t.co/l7OV5V0LF…