I’m enjoying The Residence but I will be disappointed if it doesn’t turn out to be Kylie Minogue who done it 😃
I live in the top right hand corner of this map. I wish it was still called Mizmaze Hill. I’ve never found out where the Mizmaze was.
My new favourite website.
Chicken sandwiches, dinosaurs and sign language.
They are all woke.
Just 9 months ‘til Christmas 🌲🎅🦌
Marvellous free kick from the man who is surely England’s future captain
⚽ #EngLva #ItsComingHomeAndReeceJamesIsBringingIt
I took this pic 3 years ago today while I was out running. It’s a house in the Close which was done up to be Miss Havisham’s house in the BBC’s Great Expectations
I very much like the cover of the upcoming Kate Rusby LP…but does it look a bit like it’s going to be another Christmas record?
England looking quite good ATM
⚽ #EngAlb #ItsDefinitelyComingHomeThisTime
the last nesting place for mammoths in the whole of Wessex - Flanders and Swann on Stonehenge
I’d not heard this before. Flanders and Swann were a duo I just about remember that did comic monologues and songs
This is their take on Stonehenge. It’s in the genre of posh people lampooning less posh people, but funny anyway. YMMV!
Well wot’s this then? You’re not going to put up these great ugly stone blocks ‘ere, are you? You can’t do that! I’ve got Ancient Lights on my cave! Well, what is it anyway? A henge? Well, what’s a henge? You may call it megalithic culture, I call it vandalism! I suppose you realise this is about the last nesting place for mammoths in the whole of Wessex?
The whole thing is here:
YouTube - Built-up Area - Flanders and Swann
…and I got the words from: Ian Kitiching website - Built up area
In praise of the blossomest blossom
A rubbish-y photo of a rubbish-y roadside….but it’s enough to remind me of Dennis Potter, again
It was at this time of year in 1994 that Dennis Potter, then dying of cancer, gave a celebrated interview with Melvyn Bragg published under the title Seeing the Blossom. He spoke of how the imminence of death gave his experience of the world a heightened intensity. “At this season, the blossom is out in full now … and instead of saying ‘Oh that’s nice blossom’ … last week looking at it through the window when I’m writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it.
In praise of …… seeing the blossom
#TodqyILearned that Blackboard Jungle, the film that introduced Rock Around The Clock to the world, was written by Ed McBain under his real name, Evan Hunter
I enjoyed the Bath Half yesterday…and unlike last year, I didn’t go the wrong way at all!! 🏃
I hope Newcastle hang on. From what I’ve seen they’ve been much the better team.
It’ll be revenge for ‘74 😃
#LivNew
I’ve seen Russ Noble a couple of times and I think he’s a genius. I can imagine this happening at one of his shows
What is the strangest thing that has happened at one of your live shows?
At one show, there was a guy in the audience who was my doppelganger, so I was chatting to him. It was a sold-out theatre, so there were no empty seats at all. His friend, who was sat next to him, drunkenly got up and staggered out to the toilet. So I gave the guy who looked like me one of my shirts from backstage – we dressed him like me and he stood on the stage while I sat in his drunk friend’s seat in the audience. I kept performing into the mike, while this guy mimed and walked around like me on stage.
So the drunk guy came back and looked up at the stage. He hadn’t clocked it was his friend up there. Eventually he came over, looked down and saw me sitting in his seat. His head exploded.
I love pictorial maps
This was in a hotel room. It’s by a chap called Justin Eagleton. His website is here:
I just finished Zero Day. There are good things in it, but it felt like there was a simple story but then they threw in X, and Y, then a bit of Z until it was a bit like one of my less successful chillis. YMMV.
My words or the day from 2015 to 2022, from absurd to yonder
ILike a poor man’s Suzie Dent I used to post a ‘word of the day’ on Twitter. They were words I liked the sound of, or the meaning of, or words that just kept popping up in my brain
I’ve just now cobbled together some powershell commands to pull stuff out of my downloaded Twitter archive. This list is the first fruit of that dubious achievement 😃
- ramshackle
- skullduggery
- mawkish
- rigmarole
- discombobulate
- happenstance
- skedaddle
- gush
- ruffled
- amok
- chortle
- edible
- reverberate
- shuck
- musty
- impinge
- bosky
- dawdle
- curdle
- staunch
- wobbulator
- rigmarole
- rambunctious
- the vig
- higgledy-piggledy
- Laggards
- haunch
- gizzard
- shtick
- tatterdemalion
- interstitial
- skulduggery
- hugger-mugger
- scamper
- ruffian
- genial
- bramble
- truffle
- hankering
- scrimp
- absurd
- flounce
- flummox
- extrusion
- scramble
- pestle
- rancid
- scrofulous
- saunter
- wondrous
- befuddled
- spud
- machinate
- resonate
- gratitude
- scruple
- besmirch
- tardy
- slumber
- dimple
- bustle
- befuddled
- sinister
- husky
- razzmatazz
- tingle
- crepuscular
- gesticulate
- frazzled
- tamp
- grapple
- truckle
- rigmarole
- amicable
- gargle
- griddle
- gusty
- modicum
- miscreant
- dumpling
- liniment
- chevron
- snigger
- merge
- wrought
- gumption
- rabble
- ponder
- maritime
- surge
- meander
- blustery
- bliss
- rowdy
- pith
- damp
- machination
- chirpy
- engrossed
- ocelot
- frisson
- triumph
- drench
- griddle
- shudder
- quandary
- gloop
- ping
- furlong
- squirm
- reverie
- camaraderie
- lunge
- patter
- jaunty
- trundle
- linnet
- agog
- flounce
- brisk
- froth
- tinge
- lagoon
- curdle
- fizzle
- glee
- burst
- finagle
- pernickety
- stipple
- miscreant
- flummox
- tumble
- mellifluous
- stooge
- wry
- precipitate
- hirsute
- rascal
- wistful
- manky
- chaff
- skittle
- quench
- nuzzle
- ineffable
- poodle
- vestibule
- mishmash
- twelve
- chivvy
- snooze
- flannel
- giggle
- gusty
- parish
- vanquish
- startle
- muffle
- mischief
- pebble
- roughage
- jibber-jabber
- gabardine
- perspicacious
- munch
- quandary
- crumble
- reckon
- .
- merriment
- slobber
- musket
- mumble
- ragwort
- resurgence
- glimmer
- turnbuckle
- perch
- halcyon
- drizzle
- ethereal
- curdle
- shoestring
- bungalow
- skittish
- dream
- kelp
- reverberate
- mitigate
- miscreant
- jittery
- gleam
- shimmer
- convivial
- marmalize
- groove
- ochre
- swelter
- skirmish
- oblivious
- sprinkle
- moreish
- hankering
- pundit
- amok
- happen
- mulch
- flutter
- brunt
- sprightly
- happenstance
- baffled
- prattle
- crumple
- scatter
- sinew
- cherub
- abundant
- autumnal
- bedraggled
- fisticuffs
- trickle
- jaded
- crinkle
- lucid
- melody
- dozen
- muffle
- expunge
- rubble
- mirage
- cribbage
- palaver
- corroborate
- scrawny
- jot
- heft
- crepuscular
- digit
- scruffy
- embroiled
- guttering
- smudge
- rummage
- ado
- balustrade
- cattle
- stubble
- askance
- wanton
- jostle
- capacious
- scamper
- adamant
- frost
- purloin
- crackle
- tinsel
- kindling
- dunk
- mariner
- gist
- mollusc
- growl
- chirpy
- exuberant
- mumble
- creosote
- gesticulate
- hocus-pocus
- sprout
- satsuma
- stroll
- schism
- skew
- trickle
- ditto
- scrimmage
- middling
- epitome
- tabernacle
- spruce
- rickety
- mooch
- mishmash
- tomfoolery
- diffident
- twill
- crumple
- febrile
- chrysalis
- styptic
- griddle
- machinate
- swarthy
- wrinkle
- ceramic
- chipper
- antiquity
- stirrup
- thistle
- sanguine
- rife
- sprinkle
- pithy
- frothy
- nebulous
- truckle
- resin
- mulch
- hunkering
- batten
- codger
- shiplap
- fricative
- blossom
- desultory
- grinning
- skint
- valve
- behest
- parish
- filibuster
- dazzling
- snout
- malleable
- daub
- jettison
- tumultuous
- sombre
- nincompoop
- hillock
- grizzled
- chuffed
- stockade
- hue
- outwith
- jovial
- glitch
- mulch
- drizzle
- myriad
- flange
- fiddlesticks
- divot
- russet
- gravel
- albeit
- dunk
- totter
- Blighty
- guttural
- slumber
- foible
- cusp
- jettison
- effervescent
- yonder
- trot
- simmer
- clavicle
- behest
- manifest
- stickler
- fickle
- calypso
- tingle
- stove
- temper
- incorrigible
- peregrine
- bickering
- smidgen
- musty
- vestibule
- tryst
- glitch
- drowsy
- aghast
- luminous
- divulge
- shimmering
- mull
- cadge
- stanchion
- cleft
- hubbub
- tryst
- stymied
- combustion
- squat
- squabble
- festoon
- resplendent
- raddled
- natterjack
- swelter
- gormless
- schmuck
- toggle
- scamper
- giggle
- wallop
- balustrade
- sparrow
- lilting
- sniff
- hustings
- slake
- parsnip
- raddled
- nobbled
- paraphernalia
- hankering
- sizzle
- fricative
- smattering
- scant
- warble
- qualm
- buddy
- heft
- waif
- dromedary
- batten
- froth
- conkers
- gladden
- ribbon
- purport
- dithering
- scurry
- fume
- knuckles
- autumnal
- turmoil
- slouching
- wreak
- foist
- follicle
- raucous
- speckled
- tustle
- gabardine
- commensurate
- paradiddle
- muffle
- chilly
- piffle
- harbinger
- bangle
- gantry
- caper
- saunter
- vacillate
- tardy
- banjaxed
- hoik
- minion
- tousled
- nostrils
- amalgamate
- garnish
- skiff
- tad
- declamatory
- plinth
- rumbustious
- stucco
- strum
- hush
- bubble
- plangent
- rankle
- lustre
- mulled
- tinsel
- ponderous
- footfall
- tidings
- swaddling
- eggnog
- myrrh
the most incisive pass so far has been a ricochet. ⚽ #CfcCph #ChelseaFC
I’ve got A Big Run coming up
I couldn’t represent Wiltshire, as a runner, nor Salisbury.
Nor even my end of our road
…..but I could carbo-load for England
