#TodayILearned that if you do this:

mock -CommandName get-date -MockWith { get-date -Year 2023 -Month 1 -day 1 }

…then you get:

ScriptCallDepthException: The script failed due to call depth overflow.

I’ve got two books on the go at the moment, and the main characters in both are very, very interested in fabrics, for one reason and another

It’s an odd pairing

My word of the day today is ‘hustings’.

My word of the day today is ‘hustings’.

“It is a barely-mentioned fact That England men’s team once beat Germany in a Wembley final too”

Genius. From @squires_david

www.theguardian.com/football/…

It had to happen sooner or later, I guess

My word of the day today is ‘sniff’.

My word of the day today is ‘sniff’.

If you see it you can be it….but if you can’t see it you can be the first

I’ve sometimes said that the only time I hear a West country accent on TV or radio, then it’s either that chef from Bristol or Ian Holloway

Anyway, this is that on stilts

Robyn Vinter robynvinter@bsky.social @RobynVinter I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen so many working-class women and girls on TV, thanks to the Euros. We’re a demographic that’s virtually invisible usually, especially when that platform is about success and ambition, which people don’t associate with working-class women

RT @govindajeggy: I stupidly left a panda with a harmonium. It was pandemonium

#TodayILearned that Betty Boo wrote Hear’Say’s Pure and Simple

www.theguardian.com/music/202…

#TodayILearned that to get rid of the Word process after you’ve read a file like this:

$word = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application $Doc = $word.Documents.Open(‘Pogues.docx’ , $false, $true) $text = $Doc.Content.Text $Text

You can do this:

$word.Quit()

#TodayILearned that Betty Boo wrote Hear’Say’s Pure and Simple

www.theguardian.com/music/202…

My word of the day today is ‘lilting’.

England haven’t won anything for an hour or so

All those minutes of hurt

#Lionesses

had a great day out to @leytonorientfc yesterday and we were behind the goal for this…one of the best goals I’ve seen live I think

The pictures here don’t capture the look on Mr James' face when it went in!

Source: Facebook share.google/bFJYPg3Lm…

Top Salisbury trivia: Mr Dawkins was ‘confirmed’ at Saint Mark’s in Salisbury

www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…

Johnson would’ve said we are world-beating idlers

“Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/…

RT @bettyboomania: The time I met @PublicEnemyFTP in McDonald’s on Shepherds Bush Green in 87! We’d just seen them playing a Def Jam gig so…