a) I have no memory whatsoever of “their 1981 festive EP Yuletide Throwdown”

b) Union City Blue should be number one

www.theguardian.com/music/202…

My word of the day today is ‘expunge’.

I think I’ve sometime had this error spuriously too.

Leastways, I’ve run again from another session and it’s gone away

There’s a bit of software I use.

The salesman said several times that their engineers were the sort of people who iron their underpants, they were so precise and meticulous

Remembering this doesn’t make me any more forgiving of the software’s various flaws

My word of the day today is ‘muffle’.

It turns out that I can’t draw owls

rubbish drawing of an owl

but it’s easy to fix

Auto-generated description: A simple drawing of an owl is accompanied by the words Too - wit too - woo.

RT @NicholasTyrone: Dominic Cummings is claiming on Twitter that Boris Johnson didn’t even know what the Customs Union was until November 2…

Finn McCool built the Giants Causeway, among other things

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fion…

#TodayILearned that ‘Sir Walter Scott thought that “Auld King Coul” was Cumhall, the father of the giant Fyn M’Coule (Finn McCool)’

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_…

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2…

#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay makes a comeback twitter.com/stellacre…

My word of the day today is ‘dozen’.

I know the chap who’s doing these, but I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend anyway…..really very interesting in-depth discussion of Silvio Berlusconi twitter.com/hated_and…

#TodayILearned that Tony Wilson and Richard Madeley worked together at Granada t.co/afXkCF2bB…

Surprised Mr Freakish has come off #ENGvHUN

Picked up some cheese at the co-op.

Mystic cheese

Truth, from @zoesqwilliams

“Ever since Little Britain, British TV viewers have been more likely to encounter a sketch about the working classes and what is wrong with them than a working-class comedian.”

www.theguardian.com/culture/2…

My word of the day today is ‘melody’.

‘The island it is silent now But the ghosts still haunt the waves And the torch lights up a famished man Whom fortune could not save’

Was listening to @PowerUSAID or @SamanthaJPower on #DesertIslandDiscs podcast yesterday and she picked Thousands Are Sailing, and I had two thoughts