My word of the day today is ‘skirmish’.
RT @portraitinflesh: This might be my very favourite Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List… Worth your time to read the whole thing.
RT @Sumblokeintheuk: Word of the day @salisbury_matt pingdemic
RT @jenstirrup: “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” - Ralph Waldo Emer…
As I’ve said previously, #Dominic #Cummings doesn’t have much luck with his shopping trolleys
It’s his go-to metaphor for useless Prime Ministers
Bloke on the radio wo4ied about getting pinged when he’s left his phone I a gym locker, so he says he’s un-installed the app
Could possibly have just turned the phone off before putting it in the locker, surely?
@BBCRadio4
I love seaside piers….but if they didn’t already exist it would be difficult to get one built
My word of the day today is ‘swelter’.
“His whole life has been one long pilot scheme in seeing how far he can bend the rules and get away with it. He’s not going to change now.”
- @gabyhinsliff is spot on
There should be a word for ‘knowing what you want, but not knowing how to google for it’.
Graffiti in the subway on the way to Salisbury Waitrose
The pleb has misspelled ‘Sartre’, though
#TodayILearned that the building of the @RoyalAlbertHall was proposed by Prince Albert….I’d assumed it was a memorial
Via #wato
RT @DavidGauke: Wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that it was Rishi Sunak who forced the U-turn. All a shambles but the quick retreat p…
Pls could someone invent something for me?
I like music radio, but I’d like an app that instantly Shazam’s each song, recognizes the ones I don’t like and drops in something of an identical length that I do like
If someone could get that sorted for me before the weekend? Thx
My word of the day today is ‘ochre’.
“The highest total value of hospitality … who took a ticket to England v Czech Republic worth £1,537.60; hospitality to Royal Ascot worth £1,400; a ticket to Wimbledon worth £1,400; and another ticket to England v Denmark worth £3,457.”
It does seem like Mr Johnson is giving speeches with one eye on making sure @MrMichaelSpicer never runs out of material
In case you wanted something new to worry about
Travel industry bloke on @BBCr4today ‘either the vaccine works or it doesn’t’
Not sure I’d trust someone who says something that daft to buy me a bus ticket
#r4today
My word of the day today is ‘groove’.