RT @hated_and_dead: New episode about Rodrigo Duterte. My guest for this one was the fantastic @Tomtheacademic, a true authority on the Phi…
RT @IMcMillan: The tiny earthquake Of the hotel kettle Boiling
RT @davidhepworth: Omicron Variant. Two more from them after the News.
Actually a little known bit of Dickens' A Christmas Carol was when Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning, buys a big fat turkey, and cancels his subscription to the Daily Mail
Catching up on Folk Hibernia on catch-up
Very much my sort of thing….who’d have thought?
Wack fall the daddy-o.
Or something
Given the House of Cards was a very talk-y show, they say “Let me show you something” an awful lot
If you don’t fancy reading @Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count, many of the main points are covered in this podcast episode
There are bits I’m not convinced about, but it’s interesting and worth a listen
“It now transpires the newly revised Commons rule book specifies children cannot go into the chambers – thus parliament has, to date, put more effort into writing rules about this than second jobs.”
- @stellacreasy
Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating it today
My word of the day today is ‘adamant’.
I didn’t know this existed
Black Uhuru and others covering @Ralph_McTell’s Long Way from Clare to Here
The song’s also sung by @TheFureys
Anyway it’s nice
One of the disadvantages of working from home is that I don’t get to spend half the day talking about how good @ChelseaFC were last night
#smug
My word of the day today is ‘scamper’.
They said in the commentary that Thiago Silva was on the bench for Brazil v Argentina
If Brazil are that good there isn’t any point anybody else turning up for the World Cup
#CheJuv
Early days, but Reece James could turn out to be one of our greatest of all time 🐐 #CheJuv
Men against bambinos #CheJuv
Wiltshire comes 254th out of 399
….with the write-up: ‘I was going to type a short review of this but I fell asleep trying.’
Which all seems fair enough, to be honest.
Via @TheWildeRobin
There was a chap, in the early days of blogging who had a great blog, but he shut it all down. Bloggers were nominating each other to list their favourite this, that and the other. I think he saw it as trivial, or intrusive.
I sometimes wonder what he would have made of twitter
My word of the day today is ‘capacious’.
RT @ananson: I went to give blood yesterday in #Salisbury. Really important that we #GiveBlood at the moment as stocks are low 🩸