Well…he’s got my vote
" I always say to my son, in my more bleak moments, play ‘The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn’ at my funeral"
The Quietus - Party Pieces: Andy Burnham’s Favourite Albums
I haven’t seen this before - a Wikipedia page detailing all the statues on the West Front of Salisbury Cathedral
Statuary of the West Front of Salisbury Cathedral
Pic: by me, when the Fire Brigade were practicing
The story behind Kingfishr’s ‘Killeagh’, which has now had 60 million streams on my streamer alone, is quite something
In mid-2024, Eoin Fitzgibbon was asked by former hurling coach Phillip O’Neill to write a song for Killeagh GAA to which he agreed if the juniors made the east Cork final that year. Fitzgibbon believed it was unlikely as team hadn’t made the final since 2001. Fitzgibbon said, “lo and behold, October arrives and they get to the final” and he is contacted by O’Neill.
The song was written in 20 minutes, with the group saying “It literally could not have been more of a slapped-together job” Killeagh (song) on Wikipedia
I’m enjoying the Ribble game on Puzzmo
Scores on the doors:
| Date | How long | Words |
| 30th June | 2:55 | 'zinc' is from "German Zink, possibly from Zinke, spike (so called because it becomes jagged in the furnace)". |
| 29th June | 4:05 | 'Tuft' is "Middle English, probably alteration of Old French tofe, from Late Latin tufa, helmet crest" |
| 28th June | 13:10 | |
| 25th June | 5:10 | |
| 26th June | 6:27 | an octad is "A group or sequence of eight" |
| 27th June | 7:37 | Tort is the legal thing, and French for 'wrong'. Torte is a cake |
Watching: Brazil ‘70: The Third Star 🍿.
Possibly something for football nerds of a certain age….but I’m very much enjoying it
They used to say if you don’t like the weather in England then you can wait five minutes and it will have changed. Starting to feel its the same for Prime Ministers.
I’m not much interested in Burnham vs Starmer. The significant story seems to me to be how badly the right did
Reform is dying out there, absolutely dying on its arse - Ian Dunt substack (my retitling)
Great bit of detail about Count Binface
The man in the bin is a comedian named Jon Harvey. He used to stand in elections as Lord Buckethead, including in the former prime minister Theresa May’s constituency in 2017 so that she had to face down the dreadful results for her party alongside a man with a bucket on his head. However, after receiving a copyright complaint from the American film-maker Todd Durham, who created Lord Buckethead for his 1984 science-fiction film Hyperspace, Harvey had to rebrand as Count Binface.
Binface, foxes and raving loonies: the UK’s proud history of costumed candidates
Pic: Jpdfive, Count Binface, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wondering whether I’d rather see Chelsea win the Premiership away at Tottenham or away at Bournemouth 😀
⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
Chelsea - Scores & Fixtures - Football - BBC Sport
I’m back at Outpatients. Being a total wuss, I always feel a bit sorry for myself….until I see other people who are much worse off than I am.
There was a chap in the radio the other day who had bought a bottle of beer from each of the 48 nations in the World Cup.
As each team gets eliminated he’s going to drink that country’s beer.
It’s a nice idea. I wonder whether that last bottle of beer, of the side that never gets eliminated (England, obviously), will ever be drunk, or will it become a family heirloom, passed down and treasured through the generations.
It’s coming home. Possibly. ⚽
It’s great that the referee’s signal for “hydration break” is the same as the mime for “do you want another beer?” ⚽
I was pleased to hear the first “and rightly so” from Alan Shearer in this World Cup.And rightly so. ⚽
My very favourite comedy ever is a radio comedy set in a corner shop near Glasgow, called Fags, Mags and Bags.
I just listened to an episode in which they mention Bensons for Beds, Salisbury.
I might have to go and get my picture taken in front of it.
I like to think I understand a bit about The Troubles and All That, but often something takes me aback.
Celtic manager Martin O’Neill says that his dad was one of two barbers in their village…but some Protestants got their haircut by his dad, who was Catholic, too.
The fact that this is worth mentioning, 60-odd years later, makes me realise that although I might know some stuff, I’ll never properly understand.
Went to the pictures last night. I enjoyed Batman Begins, but I couldn’t help thinking of how odd it now seems for a billionaire to be the good guy
Watched: Batman Begins 🍿