whimsy
- the weather,
- the class system,
- the football, and
- a saucy seaside postcard
This is a lovely Christmas wreath on a lovely Salisbury building…but it looks a bit out of proportion - as if there’s been a Spinal-Tap-Black-Sabbath-Stonehenge type confusion between inches and feet
it’s windy out
Many of the COVID signs, warning people to keep their distance, are fading now
I wonder when the last one will disappear from view
I’ve never seen Back to the Future.
I only realised today, when I saw this poster, that the name of the band ‘McFly’ is a Back to the Future reference
Happy Cyber-men Day to all who are celebrating it today
I would very much like to do a Desi Pub Tour of the UK
I really like SSMS as a query tool, but i found it much easier to pronounce ‘Toad’
I’ve never been able to imagine Cary Grant speaking in a Bristol accent
(For those outside the UK, think of Speak Like a Pirate Day…..but all the time.)
My most un-English opinion is this.
I find the Shipping Forecast really boring
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Love and cannibalism in the Yorkshire Dales
I’ve never thought much about the folk song ‘Ilkley Moor Baht ‘at’ before Paul Sinha mentioned it on his radio show.
I think the only bit in the words below that really needs explanation is ‘baht at’ means ‘without a hat’ ….but there is a full translation on Wikipedia
ON ILKLEY MOOR BAHT ‘AT
Wheear ‘as ta bin sin ah saw thee,
On Ilkla Moor baht ‘at?!
Tha’s been a cooartin’ Mary Jane|
Tha’s bahn t’catch thi deeath o’cowd
Then we shall ha’ to bury thee
Then t’worms ’ll cum and eat thee oop
Then ducks ’ll cum and eat oop t’worms
Then we shall go an’ ate oop ducks
Then we shall all ‘ave etten thee
That’s wheer we get us oahn back
Lauren Laverne is the host of the Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs.
She used to be in a band, called Kenickie
I’m kind of sad that, so far, nobody has ever picked a Kenickie song as one of their eight discs
<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/139254/2024/s-l400.jpg" width=“392” height=“400” alt=“Four illustrated people are driving a car on an album cover with the title “Kenickie In Your Car."">
The job title ‘Platform Engineer’ sounds to me like I’m working on an oil rig
I’m trying to replace the phrase ‘Maternity Leave’, or ‘Mat Leave’ with the phrase ‘Parental Leave’
So far I have been mainly spelling it ‘Paternal Leave’ or ‘Prenatal Leave’
I don’t know whether watching Paddington and Gladiator II together might become a thing, like it didn’t with ‘Barbenheimer’
If it does, I don’t know whether I’d prefer ‘Gladdington’ or ‘Paddiator’.
The latter sounds a bit like a reference to Paul Mescal being Irish
British tabloids have an awful lot to answer for but I did enjoy this sub-headline
BOFFIN REVEALS SURPRISE CHOICE FOR NEW MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE IN THE EVENT THAT ALL HUMANKIND CARKS IT
Especially since it’s octopuses. Or possibly octopi.
Nice to see these guys again, in the Chantry Centre in Andover
I expect they come to life at night….when the shopping centre is all shut down for the night, and it’s all dark and quiet.
My last four posts have been about
As, ironically, Chandler Bing might have said…could i BE any more English?
I read or heard a thing about the British class system recently. I don’t know where but it’s stuck in my head
if you shower before work then you’re middle class, if you shower after work then you’re working class
If I’m honest, I’m quite enjoying the anti-cyclonic gloom.
We had a good night tonight but managed to miss one of the highlights
there was some light relief near the home bench. Nicolas Jackson was very pleased with himself after balancing a cup of soup on Marc Cucurella’s head.
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