My word of the day today is ‘incorrigible’.
Lovely pictures
The disadvantage of Manhattenhenge is that you don’t get to walk over Salisbury Plain in the depths of winter, or smell of sheep poo for the next few days, though
“Punk: the panto” sounds perfect to me
In the scale of things it’s not the biggest of deals…..but THE CHELSEA SHOP IS OPEN AGAIN
#cfc #ktbffh #inbc
It’s raining, it’s pouring The old man is snoring
I very much enjoyed this…..I only wish it had been an eight-part series tbh www.channel4.com/programme…
My word of the day today is ‘temper’.
Still hearing this whenever I read ‘Wagatha Christie’
For the last 30 years or so, I’ve alternated between a book by a man then a book by a woman, and I think this is an interesting article…but fwiw I think the significant line is “it is wrong to pigeonhole women’s novels as purely about relationships”
I like dinosaurs and I like Glam Rock
Today I am wondering whether I’d like to go back in time and see a T Rex or whether I’d like to go back in time and see T Rex
We’ll miss him
“What I’m being asked to do is not to prove who I am.
I’m being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist.
I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I’m not somebody who doesn’t exist?
Just how do you do that?”
I get Starbuck from Moby Dick and Steerforth from David Copperfield mixed up
My most middle-brow tweet ever
I get Starbuck from Moby Dick and Steerforth from David Copperfield mixed up
My most middle-brow tweet ever
“He paid the fine”
So did Al Capone.
#bbcaq
On the Friday before a recess?
It’s almost as if he thinks this might not be very popular twitter.com/guardiann…
I’m possibly a bit late to this party, but I thought this was rather good
I get the impression Hitchcock gets the credit for his films, but Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine are marvellous
Suspicion: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e… via @bbciplayer
He’s clearly much more dapper, but Grant’s charming, but manipulative and duplicitous chancer has a certain resonance at the moment
I am a total sucker for scenes like this in period dramas
…and it might be because I’m an IT guy, or it might just be because I’m a Grumpy Old Man….but isn’t it time that we had a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Microphones?
Ideally with statutory powers?