#OnThisDay in 1873 25,000 people came to Wilton Foresters’ Fete to see tightrope walker Charles Blondin
V good podcast by @knopps on The Genius of Michael Jackson ‘3 things saved the music industry: MTV, CDs & Thriller’ authorsontourlive.com/steve-kno…
Broadly agree with Mr Corbyn’s 10 pledges but he’s batting on the easiest wicket any Lab leader’s ever had and he’s 12 pts behind #10pledges
This seems to work - a script to enable tab completion for #Powershell Pester TestName gist.github.com/mattypenn… t.co/Z33daEUvb…
Very pleased to see that my old neighbourhood #ForestHill is only trending because of some problem with the trains
RT @MarkElliott52: This is a friend. Paul Wilson suffers from PTSD & has been missing from Salisbury since 7.30am Tues. Pse all RT …
Sean Penn’s doing a film of Simon Winchester’s Professor and the Madman. Not read it but heard a good podcast. Maybe www.cbc.ca/news/the-…
#TodayILearned that shortening rhyming slang so it no longer rhymes (butchers, whistle, etc) is called ‘hemiteleia’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhym…
_There is a suggestion that Bill Bryson made this up. A footnote on the Wikipedia page says that:
Bryson, a humourist, states that there is a special name given to this omission: “the word that rhymes is almost always dropped… There’s a technical term for this process as well: hemiteleia”. Given that this is a genus of plant species, and appears in no readily available sources as a linguistic term, it is unclear whether the humourist was being humorous, or informative
Am at what I’m told is a Pokémon gym. My phone can’t do Pokémon but I thought I’d do something on it just to join in.
RT @kevebbs: The Jesus And Mary Chain - April Skies - best consumed loud! m.youtube.com/watch
Some great photos of some London landmarks under construction www.theguardian.com/cities/ga…
“It would set a bad precedent”
Translation: If we do the right thing now, we might have to do the right thing in future www.theguardian.com/politics/…
I like it when people say “I’ll tell you for why” rather than “I’ll tell you why”
#TodayILearned that Cheryl Baker was also a member of previous Eurovision entrants Coco www.theguardian.com/culture/2…
I swear to have this many loyalty points you have to be in the squad (& rarely injured) or Roman Abramovich himself t.co/AKDBP908f…
The @guardian preview of @ChelseaFC’s forthcoming, inevitably Premiership-winning, season www.theguardian.com/football/… #cfc #ktbffh
Mrs T 1974: ‘People want a home they can call their own’
That particular bit of Thatcherism - not going so well… www.theguardian.com/society/2…
On this day in 1086,all the Barons of England swore allegiance to William I at @EHOldSarum
Today is the Feast of St. Peter in Chains -> in Latin, St Peter ad Vincula -> Petersfinger -> Lammas lands nr #Salisbury are Petersfinger
If youre not sick of Brexit, this is good (you have to register, though) next.ft.com/content/a… t.co/ogdO1nXNd…