We should start a twitter campaign to make the second Tottenham own goal our Goal of the Month

#ComedyGenius #CHETOT #Spursy #VerySpursy

My word of the day today is ‘epitome’.

The guy in the picture is Hugh Dennis. He’s the epitome of affable.

Hugh and Dennis in the book are particularly nasty wild-man and a particularly nasty hangman respectively.

10 House Points if you can name the book

I’m reading an old book in which the main baddies are called Hugh and Dennis

It’s a bit off-putting t.co/c2etLUxdU…

Body and brain, on the second day back after a fortnight off work, now screaming at me….you’re going to make us do that AGAIN!!!!

My word of the day today is ‘middling’.

As I’ve said before, the oddest thing about WFH for me after years of working in offices is not seeing people and having the ‘how was your Christmas / holiday’ chit-chat on ‘going back’ to work

My phrase of the day today is ‘heartily and saltily rebutted’

Via @IainDale and @StephenGethins

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Specs, mask and headphones is one bit of face furniture to many

My word of the day today is ‘scrimmage’.

#TweetOfTheDay. 🥇 twitter.com/MsHelicat…

🙏 twitter.com/drraghiba…

It’s a sign of how things are when the Premier League doesn’t have pictures of a couple of our players

#CHELIV t.co/JW1P428RW…

Watching Robin Hood and reminded of a bloke I used to know who was a driver for the film industry, usually up in Elstree

He said he’d come down to Salisbury to film at an old castle

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Looks a bit Pearly King and Queen twitter.com/MichelleO…

RT @guyrleech: When writing down today’s date, be sure to use the UK format of 01/01/22 and not the US format of 01/01/22.

RT @HackBlackburn: There’s something delightfully pleasing about the phrase Mel B MBE

Highlights of the year

Saw Chelsea win the Champions League again

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Got up to Stamford Bridge

Just the once…but saw Chalobah score in his home debut

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Still playing myself, just about

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watched some great telly

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went to some nice pubs

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drank too much coffee

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ate an awful lot of curry

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went to the cinema

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did a couple of Half’s

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All thanks to the NHS and two jabs of Astra-Zeneca

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May your God go with you in 2022