#OnThisDay in 2012 Michael Johnson took the Olympic flame around @EH_Stonehenge and back to @SalisburyCath
You also also know your old when you stop being able to get You’re and Your the right way round
Thought-provoking @LSEpublicevents podcast about Conspiracy Theories
FWIW…. I think ‘conspiracy theory’ is a phrase that’s outlived it’s usefulness - there are good theories and bad theories, useful theories and un-useful theories etc
What happened to the Fail Whale?
I’ve never thought of them as ‘sweet beans’
“Those sweet beans,” he says, still sounding traumatised. Baked Beans? “Yes, I ended up adoring them and always ordered them.””
“A progressive, united Ireland seems more likely than ever – thanks to the DUP”
I don’t know one end of a tennis bat from another, but the idea of having top singles players playing doubles in the same tournament has always struck me as odd
It’s as if England or Germany squeezed in the odd game of five-a-side during the World Cup
#OnThisDay in 1899 Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth arrived in Salisbury
#OnThisDay in 2010 an Honorary Consulate of the Republic of the Maldives was opened in Salisbury in the Friary
My word of the day today is ‘befuddled’
As I’ve probably tweeted before in this poster Barnum and Bailey remind me of the Wizard of Oz, and Lenin
Some more Barnum and Bailey posters from around the time
To be honest, I’m not in the target market either for pork products or for prospective Leaders of the Conservative Party
I’m slightly* germaphobic about raw meat….but I’m sure draping it around your neck isn’t a very good idea
*‘Slightly’ meaning absolutely-screaming-paranoid
I enjoyed #SpiderManFarFromHome, particularly the bits in that there London. I’m glad they left Waterloo alone though. Would’ve been chaos on the trains
RT @tortoise: “We talk as if Ricky Gervais is in a prison for making these jokes. He’s got a lot of money and no-one has ever censored him.…
Thomas Nash: ‘A dreame is nothing els but a bubling scum or froath of the fancie, which the day hath left undigested; or an after feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations’
RT @RichardBenyonMP: Worth a read. Brilliant from @ClareFoges in @thetimes. t.co/0pLdeRnpc…
“A truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman arrogance, toffishness & twittishness. But at the time you felt it was wonderful to be going round swanking it up.”
2013 looking back on his time at Oxford
Or 2023 looking back on his time are Westminster?
Shocking image of child doing homework without headphones plugged in :) twitter.com/TVRav/sta…