…in a beautiful building www.visitmanchester.com/food-and-…
Had lunch at @MackieMayor which is like food court, but only in the way that Mo Farah is like a weekend jogger
really good food
I went to lovely Manchester yesterday, for the day
These were my tickets.
I don’t know if it’s fair to see this as a legacy of Thatcherism and privatisation etc, but it’s a bit daft
You know you’re getting old when the Time Lords are getting younger
Love this…I think, though, that there are a disproportionate number of paintings of @EH_Stonehenge in dark and stormy weather
The weather in Wiltshire isn’t that bad, really :) twitter.com/Trad_West…
Southampton away in August….yes, please!
Love this…I think, though, that there are a disproportionate number of paintings of @EH_Stonehenge in dark and stormy weather
The weather in Wiltshire isn’t that bad, really :)
My word of the day today is ‘glitch’.
‘Bumpkin’ itself is ““awkward country fellow,” 1560s, probably from Middle Dutch bommekijn “little barrel,” diminutive of boom “tree””
#TodayILearned that Reuben and Richard were once seen as country, bumpkin-ish names and they were shortened to, respectively, ‘Rube’ and ‘Hick’
#TodayILearned that Reuben and Richard were once seen as country, bumpkin-ish names and they were shortened to, respectively, ‘Rube’ and ‘Hick’
The podcast was very interesting on the British roots of the modern Olympics…..I was also pleased to hear a reference to the lack of funding of British basketball compared to “the sitting down sports” of sailing, horse-riding, rowing and cycling.
“Yet let us all together to our troops, And give them leave to fly that will not stay; And call them pillars that will stand to us; And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards As victors wear at the Olympian games:”
#TodayILearned that the first known reference to the Olympics, in English, is in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3
(via @thehistoryguy and @HistoryMartin) play.acast.com/s/dansnow…
Given how much he’s made me laugh over the years I can’t help finding this quite sad
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1786 Jarvis Matcham met the ghost of the Dead Drummer who he had previously murdered on Salisbury Plain h…
RT @salisbury_matt: #OntThisDay in 1786 Jarvis Matcham met the ghost of the Dead Drummer on Salisbury Plain. www.exclassics.com/ingold/in… https:…
I only just learnt about the ‘Leader’ key in vim (via @jovica’s Mastering Vim Quickly book) and I get a disproportionate amount of satisfaction from using Spare Bar - b to trigger one of my macro’s.
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1963 the 4-piece band called @TheBeatles played @CityHallSalis
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1215 King John assented to the Magna Carta www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/magna-car…