We can not lose to a team sponsored by Ginsters #CHEPLY
I’m not sure which is a dafter statement - ‘change is good’, or ‘change is bad’.
#TodayILearned that the derivation of the word ‘window’ is ‘wind’s eye’
Via Jen Beagin’s book, but there’s detail on the word here: www.etymonline.com/word/wind…
My word of the day today is ‘thistle’.
So, I’ve had a couple of drinks and I was sat on the train and I thought I’d compile a playlist of songs from my favourite gigs and then I thought about something I read today about Spike Milligan, who would be one of my favourite comedy gigs (Leeds in about 1983), and…
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 t.co/1G6P5tV4C…
#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 t.co/cRultvjI9…
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 twitter.com/govindaje…
…which did make me wonder whether the Met has a CHIS in Downing Street #HasHeGoneYet? t.co/qmcQO0aHo…
How far behind am I in my podcasts?
Last week one of them started with a discussion of what a ‘CHIS’ is t.co/tJmPa7r0f…
RT @Sumblokeintheuk: “We have two lives; the second begins when we realise we only have one.”