I have a vague memory of Peter Ustinov telling Michael Parkinson that if they interrupted the football then there would be another revolution
We’ll see if he was right
Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar BREAKING: Russia expelled from World Cup by FIFA following Ukraine invasion - AFP
RIP ‘dord’.
Gone but not forgotten.
Not quite, anyway.
From @TomNissley’s A Reader’s Book of Days
My word of the day today is ‘fricative’.
FF and indeed S
They lost.
In the last second. To Liverpool.
Not sure I can face the #CarabaoCupFinal
I’m watching Kid Two on a YouTube stream. Very odd experience
A lie that people want to believe is halfway round the world before a sad and unpleasant truth has got its boots on
Shocking pun-nage in the @timesdiary
It says here that Waterfalls came out in 1994.
28 years ago, by my calculation.
What the flip?
U2 “sounded a little old fashioned…The Virgin Prunes seem to have a larger & more frenetic following and are very old indeed. Berlin cabaret style, you might say. with hints of everything from Devo to Scritti Politti..a band to keep under observation, despite their silly name.”
Sounds Clips @SoundsClips The John Peel Column in Sounds 24th, February 1979 including his trip to Belfast, Terry Hooley and Good Vibrations, Dublin, Atrix, Protex, Virgin Prunes and U2. @johnpeel3904 @johnpeelarchive
I fully support the renaming of master to main
…..but it seems my fingers don’t.
Not yet
I re-tweeted this quote, from @Kasparov63, after Putin left nerve agent in my home town
Today seems a good day to re-tweet it again
Matt Penny ⭐⭐ @salisbury_matt When people ask me how to understand the Putin regime, I tell them to read Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather’
- Gary Kasparov on Desert Island Discs
Many Trump-y types have an ‘interesting’ relationship with the truth….even about stuff that doesn’t really matter that much
The man interviewed said that when they came out, all the people there to greet them didn’t seem real. They ‘seemed animatronic’
#TodayILearned that in 2010, 6 men were locked in a ‘spacecraft’ in a warehouse for 520 days to study the effects of the isolation involved in a trip to Mars. Some of them got to walk on a fake Mars
My word of the day today is ‘shiplap’.
My word of the day today is ‘codger’.
Is Bamba the captain or just a marinero?
#StupidMusicGeekJoke
#CHELOSC #chelil
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That’ll do too
#CHELOSC #CheLil