Many of the COVID signs, warning people to keep their distance, are fading now
I wonder when the last one will disappear from view
Annual-ish post / toot / tweet / skeet….
Please could you all continuosly stream my daughter’s version of Blue Christmas from now until Boxing Day
That would be grand
Thanks in advance
Blue Christmas - Bethany Eve on Spotify
Spotify tells me that I’m in the top 0.2% of listeners to Elvis
….so the year hasn’t been entirely wasted
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
Lovely BBC radio doc about Shane Macgowan, with his wife, and his sister, and Nick Cave, and Bono, and Geldof, and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all
I particularly enjoyed
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the detail about the Broad Majestic Shannon from Shane’s sister
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Bob Geldof initially dismissing the Pogues as “paddy-whackery”
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the bloke from the Wire on The Body of An American
BBC - Archive on 4 - Shane Macgowan - The Old Main Drag
To Trowbridge by train today.
In quick succession you go past the White Horse at Westbury, as in Ravilious' painting, and Dilton Marsh, of John Betjeman’s poem
There isn’t a porter. The platform is made of sleepers.
The guard of the last train puts out the light
And high over lorries and cattle the Halt unwinking
Waits through the Wiltshire night.
Happy Cyber-men Day to all who are celebrating it today
Good news …well, good news for old folks who like to plod around like me, anyway
“There’s a far lower association of knee pain in runners in their older years compared with those who don’t run,”
Is it true that … running destroys your knees? - The Guardian
I would very much like to do a Desi Pub Tour of the UK
Thoughts on the Chelsea match this afternoon
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lovely to see a bit of proper ice-cold Cole Palmer magic again
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Caicedo man of the match imho
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great tackle by Cucarellla for the first goal
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indirect free kicks in the box seem really tough to score from
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the Arsenal are ahead of us in the League on alphabet. We need to change our name to AFC Chelsea ⚽
in honour of the season
As people who’ve followed me on various social media are probably sick of hearing, the first record I ever owned was Blue is the Colour by the Chelsea football team
#TodayILearned that the song was written by Daniel Boone and Rod McQueen , who also wrote this
Daniel Boone - Beautiful Sunday
⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
I found out today that one of my favourite songs, I Say A Little Prayer is a song about Vietnam.
Growing up in England, this maybe never would have occurred to me
BBC Soul Music - I Say a Little Prayer for You
#TodayILearned
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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.)
According to the Times, Kemi Badenoch has appointed 20 whips to look after her 121 MPs
According to Google, the DFe says that it’s good to have 1 adult for every 6 to 10 kids on a primary school trip…so Kemi is at the top end of that
#TodayILearned that Mike Batt wrote 3 hit singles about Julianne White, who is now his wife
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A Winter’s Tale by David Essex,
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Please Don’t Fall In Love by Cliff Richard, and
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I Feel Like Buddy Holly but Alvin Stardust
(via this month’s Record Collector mag)
My most un-English opinion is this.
I find the Shipping Forecast really boring
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Happy Thanksgiving Day to all who are celebrating it today