Every loss is now a gain For every chance must follow reason. A crystal palace meets the rain That falls at its appointed season. No book disturbs the lucid line For sun-bronzed scholars tune their thought To Telepathic Station 9 From which they know just what they ought:
#TodayILearned that Eileen Blair wrote a poem called ‘The End of the Century, 1984’ many years before her husband’s book
(Via @LisaMullen3)
Even more #FiveThingsILoveAboutTheBBC
@BBCNaga @bbclaurak @afneil @JPonpolitics @ChrisMasonBBC
….and a lot of others
Yet another #FiveThingsILoveAboutTheBBC
The repeats of Top of the Pops Christmas Top of the Pops The Friday night BBC4 music documentaries when they aren’t rabbitting on about the record sleeves The Glastonbury coverage All the music stations
Another #FiveThingsILoveAboutTheBBC
Old Harry’s Game Blackadder Fawlty Towers Alan Partridge Mrs. Brown’s Boys (and I don’t care who knows it)
#FiveThingsILoveAboutTheBBC
The Fortunately podcast That Peter Crouch podcast The Desert Island Discs podcast The Blood on the Tracks podcast Match of the Day, but only if Chelsea have won
I didn’t much care for extended mixes of pop songs, but I like this one
Homosapien (Dub) by Pete Shelley open.spotify.com/track/0g8…
The Big Church last night. t.co/QdeFj3BsE…
My word of the day today is ‘meander’.
There should be a statue twitter.com/ESPNFC/st…
My word of the day today is ‘surge’
Tweet of the day 🥇 twitter.com/dramadeli…
A year or so ago, when people were getting argumentative on Twitter, someone would often finish a tweet with the phrase ‘End of.’
I haven’t seen this for a bit. Are people getting less argmentative, or have we seen the end of ‘End Of.’?
Mr Johnson “…relies on people misreading big numbers: his £500m to reopen Beeching lines sounds good, but that only buys 25 miles of railway”
#TodayILearned that the bit where they do the trials on #imaceleb is an hour’s walk from the bit where they live
(Via @mattforde at podtail.com/podcast/t… )
Is ‘Baby Trump’ a bit like ‘Baby Shark’ and, if so, what are the actions? twitter.com/adamboult…
I can’t move my feet as quickly in real time as @hazardeden10 does in slow motion twitter.com/ChelseaFC…
One does look back upon 2012 as something of a Golden Age….
…but I still think this is a rubbish logo t.co/tVuYQDNKY…
Another local ex-MP says what she really thinks…. twitter.com/BBCr4toda…
Respect to Steve Gerrard (Gerrard) twitter.com/Bluelondo…