Just over 5 months to #Christmas

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My phrase of the day today is ‘covered ourselves in glory’.

As I’ve probably said before, I always thought Rockaway Beach was a mythical place, made up by the @RamonesOfficial

www.theguardian.com/artanddes…

I finally saw the #ElvisMovie last night

A wonderful film in many ways… the first half an hour in particular was a joy

RT @mitdasein: If I ever meet God, I’ll be sure to say how much I appreciate non-human animals.

My word of the day today is ‘toggle’.

#TodayILearned that F11 toggles between full screen and not-full-screen in MS Terminal

Pleased to hear the Germans described as ‘efficient’ #GERAUT

Pleased to hear the Germans described as ‘efficient’ #GERAUT

#TodayILearned that the first time that ‘the Sweeney’ , as rhyming slang for the @metpoliceuk’s Flying Squad, appeared in writing was in the 1936 ‘The Gilt Kid’ by James CurtisΒ 

www.theguardian.com/books/201…

Is Liz Truss switching to Labour?

“BBC News - Conservative leadership: Liz Truss says Tory economic policy choked growth” www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p…

My word of the day today is ‘schmuck’.

An image I won’t forget..

“In the evenings, Major Compton-Smith was taken into the farmhouse, where he sat by the fireside, ate, spoke to his captors and even joined in with rebel songs”

Via @RTEdoconone www.rte.ie/radio1/hi… via @rte

#TodayILearned that to open a file in VS @Code from the command line, you do

code -r <filename>

Not quite sure why it’s taken me so long to find that out tbh

Told you so

‘Human bollard’…..how we’ll miss the Prime Minister’s rapier, Oxford-educated wit

#PMQs

…but he created this in support of the rebel Americans, some of whom used the rattlesnake as a symbol collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O146…

#TodayILearned that Josiah Wedgewood supported the Americans in the War of Independence

www.bbc.co.uk/programme…

The Prime Minister just said that students will not pay back more than they borrow

Is he abolishing interest on student loans?

#PMQs

I was aware that he was against slavery www.bbc.co.uk/history/b…