You know how people panic-buy food before Christmas?
That’s me before two days working from home
Respect to @jessphillips
It’s a shame Mr Corbyn didn’t have the same self-awareness
“The Labour Party will have to select a candidate who can unite all parts of our movement… I have to be honest with myself… at this time that person isn’t me.”
#TodayILearned that ‘pwd’ stands for ‘print working directory’
Given I’ve been using pwd, either as a *nix command or as a Powershell alias, for nearly 30 years I consider it an achievement to have avoided this information for so long :)
My word of the day today is ‘merge’.
“The thing about the deal we have got ready to go, is that as I say, it….makes sure we have complete equivalence when it comes to our standards our industrial requirements & the rest of it.
As we come out, it is all protected”
Boris Johnson, Dec 2019
In honour of Blue Monday day
The time I saw New Order, back in the late Jurassic, they segued into this.
It’s a bit similar open.spotify.com/track/0bJ…
My word of the day today is ‘snigger’.
“The two publishers [are] forking out eye-watering sums to avoid any cases going to trial in open court.
Because the newspaper industry lobbied so forcefully to scrap the second part of the Leveson inquiry, we can only surmise what is going on.”
It easier now than it used to be
This is Bob D waiting for the ferry t.co/GFlHOaVZK…
I’ve been abroad today
Back home now, though t.co/gHApJuRIQ…
My word of the day today is ‘chevron’
Stay in bed or struggle in? How to know when to go back to work after an illness
I think the GPS in the Nokia is a bit iffy..its a fairly cheap phone
I still see all this technology as magical - but it’s something to be aware of if you’re aiming for a specific distance
The daughter doing ‘Girl Crush’
“‘Silver’ lifts you up on a cacophony of angelic vocals and glorious heavenly tones. All 3 songs could quite easily have been pulled from the soundtrack to a Hollywood fantasy film, such is the way they build emotion & send you to a completely new place”
Very, very sad
Absolutely devastated
#TodayILearned that there are two giants in Jack and the Beanstalk and they are called Blunderbore and Thunderdel
“On Tuesday, the prime minister said the government was “working up a plan so people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong”. However, it transpired that there was no such plan”
#BrexitBong
My word of the day today is t.co/BxFLcQ4Is…
It looks a bit flooded under Castle Street railway bridge.