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 Curtis
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 t.co/o2NmfZc58…
Told you so
The Prime Minister just said that students will not pay back more than they borrow
Is he abolishing interest on student loans?
#PMQs t.co/MUb0Uz67m…
‘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
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…
My word of the day today is ‘gormless’.
“In 1976, the UK was an anomalous red blob of unusual heat on a map of distinctly normal summer temperatures.
Contrast that to July 2022, and there are few places on Earth where temperatures are not considerably above average” www.theguardian.com/commentis…
I like hearing Cerys Matthews on the radio and generally being a cool and smart media person….but I wish Catatonia had gone on a bit longer
I like hearing Cerys Matthews on the radio, generally being a cool and smart media person….but I wish Catatonia had gone on a bit longer
I’ve not had a Mars ice-cream since starting The Diet….but given Mrs Thatcher was made Prime Minister after inventing Mr Whippy ice-cream, allegedly, then surely whoever came up with Mars Bar ice-cream should be King or Queen of the World or something t.co/IaTatWkDP…