whimsy
- the weather,
- the class system,
- the football, and
- a saucy seaside postcard
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.
João Félix leads the onslaught as Chelsea hammer eight past Noah - The Guardian
⚽ #ChelseaFC
I feel that, if I live long enough, the stones will turn out to have come from Antarctica, or a passing asteroid or something
Seeking a Scottish source: Updating the story of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone In CA 415, we reported on new scientific analysis suggesting that the origins of the Stonehenge Altar Stone lay hundreds of miles from Salisbury Plain, in the Orcadian Basin of north-east Scotland.
The Past - Seeking a Scottish source: Updating the story of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone
Paul Merton on Have I Got News For You
No one is irreplaceable in show business. But we’ll keep going until the sun explodes and consumes the Earth, which will be the top story the following week.
The hashtag for Man United Vs Chelsea always reminds me of …..
⚽ #MunChe
(annual-ish toot / tweet / post)
I like it when people use the word ‘weblog’ but I often read it as something like’wedding-blog'
Not sure how, all of a sudden, I’m quite so old….but I’m lucky to have lasted so long
I saw these today, near Canary Wharf. I imagine they come to life at night, when everyone’s asleep
Watching an episode of the Cleaner and they refer to a sea monster called the Oilliphéist
Apparently
“an Oilliphéist cuts the route of the River Shannon when it hears that Saint Patrick has come to drive out it and its kind.
In a comic addition to the story, the monster swallows a drunken piper named Ó Ruairc (O’Rourke). The piper is either unaware of his predicament or is completely unperturbed and continues to play inside the Oilliphéist’s stomach. The monster becomes so annoyed with Ó Ruairc’s music that it coughs him up and spits him out.” The Olliphéist - Wikipedia
the temperature has dropped, and the fingerless gloves are back on
I feel Dickensian
Some music-related AI pub signs
Oasis:
The Pogues:
The fifth Beatle:
The Waterloo Sunset:
#TodayILearned that
While humans are split between right-handers and left-handers, elephants have a preference for which side of their trunk they use. Wrinkles reveal whether elephants are left- or right-trunked, study finds
Pam Ayers has a pile of wood and rubbish in her garden which provides a habitat for hedgehogs and insects and such
She has a genius word for it. It’s her ‘nonfire’
A friend has met Paul McCartney a couple of times
I thought about what I’d say if I ever met him.
I came to the conclusion that I’d ask him what his favourite Elvis song was
I dreamt last night that I met Sir Paul in a cafe. I’m a bit disgruntled that in my dream I neglected to ask the question
My favourite pub name is The Conquered Moon
By the way…everyone should have a favourite pub name - what’s yours?
The Conquered Moon was a pub on Bemerton Heath which shut down many years ago
I searched online for a picture of the pub sign. I couldn’t find one, so I got an AI to do this
More to come
It’s Saint Swithun’s Day today
Saint Swithun is very much the British equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil
St Swithin’s day if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain St Swithun’s day if thou be fair For forty days ‘twill rain na mair
