Starmer back on storming form
Johnson, the Conservative Corbyn flailing and failing
in my opinion
#pmqs
They were Hungarier
#EngHun
is Schafer knackered? I can’t tell whether or not #ENGHUN
My phrase of the day today is ‘I should coco’
My word of the day today is ‘tryst’.
Enjoying this…it makes mw wish I was doing the Great Bristol Run again this yearA
The Outlaws, Series 1: Episode 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e… via @bbciplayer
As I’ve said before it’s always nice to hear a West Country accent on the telly that’s not Phil Harding or Ian Holloway
Although as I’ve also said before, when I’m in Bristol I often instinctively feel people are taking the mickey of the way I talk
My lovers.
#TodayILearned that Greek Fire was a flame-throwing sort of weapon
I saw it in a book (maybe Donna Tartt?) and thought it was just a passion for ancient Greece
It was mentioned in passing in @gm6016’s discussion with @thehistoryguy about Robin Hood
They say at one point that each generation has it’s Robin Hood
This one was mine’s
I think Rocco is probably the coolest first name
This is maybe more to do with there being a Rocco in a band I used to follow than it is to do with Rocco Forte but still
#TodayILearned that Bruce Springsteen originally wrote Fire for Elvis and Hungry Heart for the Ramones
via @cmolanphy
#TodayILearned that Chris Blackwell of @IslandRecords is related to the Blackwells of Crosse and Blackwell
Via @Willjhodgkinson in the Times
Does anyone other than politicians use the phrase ‘hard-pressed’? twitter.com/OliverDow…
My word of the day today is ‘vestibule’.
Does anyone other than politicians use the phrase ‘hard-pressed’?
I always thought that contact with aliens would be announced by the United Nations Security Council, or by the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse….but I guess a Twitter account called Breezy Scroll is just as appropriate these days
I just heard Chris Whitty on the radio, talking about something other than Coronavirus.
Has the world gone mad?
I just heard Chris Whitty on the radio, talking about something other than Coronavirus.
Has the world gone mad?
#TodayILearned that “a large proportion of right-to-buy homes are now in the hands of private landlords: in 2017, Inside Housing reported that 40% were being rented out, and their tenants were paying more than twice the rent charged by local authorities”