Nine years ago today
Lizzie Gardens, Town Path, and Salisbury Cathedral Across the Very Watery Meadows
My word of the day today is ‘ditto’.
My one pearl of wisdom about New Year’s is this.
It’s a bit easier if, at New Year’s Eve, you resolve to start carrying out the Resolution at some date later in January
Much as I like my work the first couple of weeks of the Year are hard enough anyway
A bit silly.
My word of the day today is ‘trickle’.
I could do with £330k for my patio
My word of the day today is ‘skew’.
My word of the day today is ‘schism’.
I want a @Shazam that identifies who’s speaking on the radio because I find it REALLY IRRITATING when I don’t know who it is.
Apologies if I’ve said this before….I’m 103, you know
My word of the day today is ‘stroll’.
If Rose and Giovanni ever got married, we would get a Bank Holiday, wouldn’t we?
I’ve done odd bits of work over the years, but I’m very lucky in that I’ve not really worked much at Christmas
I was thinking this morning, though, about the time I was logged on for pretty much all of Christmas Day
If you should feel the need for some reggae Christmas songs….
#TodayILearned “Bambi, adapted by Disney in 1942, has much darker beginnings as an existential novel about persecution and antisemitism in 1920s Austria.”
One of my favourite Salisbury #OnThisDay’s
#OnThisDay in 1873 Mark Twain visited @SalisburyCath “- the loveliest pile of stone that can be imagined”, @EH_Stonehenge
- “one of the most mysterious & satisfactory ruins I have ever seen” and @EHOldSarum
He stayed at the White Hart
Happy Christmas!
God bless us, one and all!
“Backing vocalists included some lesser-known figures from the world of music: Graham Nash (of the Hollies), Elton John (then Reg Dwight) and Tim Rice. Jack Bruce (of Cream) played bass guitar.”
“The title’s defence – that no reasonable person was likely to take the claim seriously – was dismissed by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso).”
My word of the day today is ‘satsuma’.