I thought about when he was the same age and my Grandad was the same age as when I saw the Beat and the Clash and the Banshees, they were fighting their way through North Africa and up though Italy and getting stuck at Monte Cassino
And it’s quite humbling, and I’m very lucky
My word of the day today is ‘stirrup’.
#TodayILearned that Abba’s first LP, Ring Ring wasn’t credited to Abba, at least not originally
At the time the band were known as ‘Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida’
Via @EVincentelli’s Abba Gold book, which is fascinating for pop geeks like me
#TodayILearned that George III appointed one of his tutors, the Earl Of Bute, to be Prime Minister in 1762
Like many early PMs the Earl of Bute was an old Etonian
Via @thehistoryguy and @Hannah_Greig
In case you’re looking for a bittersweet song about a long gone Australian cricketer open.spotify.com/track/0vx…
RT @bbcpress: The @BBC is something that belongs to all of us. #ThisIsOurBBC
My word of the day today is ‘antiquity’.
2/2/22 should have been a Tuesday.
Kid 1 playing in Trafalgar Square
There’s been some discussion as to whether the Line of Duty actors actually recorded the lines for the @ByDonkeys video
I don’t know about that, but I’m SURE that Her Majesty herself reads out her line here
*By ‘whole sorry mess’, I mean, of course, the Prime Minister
Almost makes the whole sorry mess* worthwhile
…which did make me wonder whether the Met has a CHIS in Downing Street #HasHeGoneYet?
How far behind am I in my podcasts?
Last week one of them started with a discussion of what a ‘CHIS’ is
RT @Sumblokeintheuk: “We have two lives; the second begins when we realise we only have one.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg saying the Prime Minister has a mandate
I don’t think he has a mandate to lie, to break the law, or to guzzle birthday cake while the rest of us folllowed the rules
But I don’t have the subtlety of a Conservative MP
@BBCr4today
White rabbits
As previously mentioned, for me, Monday morning is very much Herdle White time
Soca and reggae from @BBCLeicester
My word of the day today is ‘chipper’.
RT @LissaKEvans: Joke for the over 60s: What goes round and round a light bulb at 90 miles an hour? Stirling Moth.