#OnThisDay in 1866 the @BathandWest show opened at the Butts in Salisbury (opposite the Fire Station).
28,025 people attended
#TodayILearned that a ‘bottle episode’ of a TV series is one with only 2 or 3 characters and only one location
Via the wonderfully funny Life on Egg
#OnThisDay in 1973 David Bowie played @CityHallSalis
#OnThisDay in 1990 Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine played at Salisbury Arts Centre
Churchill on being asked about allying with Stalin:
“If Hitler invaded hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons”
Right @ChelseaFC, next season I shall be asking you to clinch the title on the next to last game of the season.
9th May. Away at Anfield.
Please
This has always been one of my favourite things on the internet
RT @petercmoore: The plot of the film Toy Story is basically the same as the song My Old Man (Said Follow The Van). HT: @salisbury_matt
“I don’t know what idleness actually is. I just know it’s a pretty weird thing to think about.”
RT @GrundyOxford: It’s weird to think that Anne Frank would be the same age as Betty White and Angela Lansbury if she were alive today.
RT @neal_sousbois: @93rdmin I’ve asked the Mexicans if they’ll pay for a wall. I’m waiting to hear back
In my imagination ‘Blowers’ looks much like John Mortimer
I’m always a bit disappointed to re-discover that he doesn’t
#oneshow
I think the thing about ‘telling’ the Stones means ‘counting’ the Stones (as in Automatic Telling Machine)
There was a legend that they were impossible to count
#OnThisDay Samuel Pepys visited @EH_Stonehenge and said the Stones were
“as prodigious as any tales I ever heard of them, and worth going this journey to see. God knows what their use was: they are hard to tell, but yet may be told.”
Being immersed in doughnuts…..mmmmmm… twitter.com/scandalwo…
I was disappointed not to get the eight nominations needed to run for leader of the Conservative Party
Try again next year…
Wasn’t the best weather for football to be honest
#OnThisDay in 1668 Samuel Pepys visited Salisbury, arriving at night.
“but before I came to the town, I saw a great fortification (@EHOldSarum)..and find it prodigious, so as to fright me to be in it all alone at that time of night, it being dark.”
#TodayILearned that….
“If [a drink has] got alcohol in it, then there’s no need to have the nutritional information on there. Therefore while there has to be clear information on soft drinks, there doesn’t on alcoholic drinks”
“This is a country that doesn’t believe in political or economic gravity any more”
#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay if only because, as much as I agree with much of what the guy says….there really isn’t such a thing as political, or indeed economic, gravity