Like weekends, December is too short

Back in the olden days, when Twitter was still a nice place to be, there was a hashtag called #PostASongLyricYouLove

“And I can play hide and seek with my fears And live my days instead of counting my years”

Goin' Back - Dusty Springfield

I’m not a fan of the works of either Freddie Mercury, or Kenny Everett and Cleo Rocos, but I’m sure they’d have been great fun on a night out….and this is a sweet story

“In 1988, Princess Diana, disguised as a man, along with broadcaster Kenny Everett and singer Freddie Mercury had a drink in London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern, a gay club in London.”

A right royal night out - Witness History

I’m thinking about writing and running a Powershell script to upload my twitter archive to micro.blog

I want to confirm whether or not to upload each tweet

But, according to an AI thing:

It would take approximately 259.17 hours to read 31,100 tweets.

The Hogwarts Express came through Salisbury station just now

The German rendering of Ben Lyttleton’s Twelve Yards reads like it’s about monitoring elves

I’d read that book too

By my calculations, it’s only 15 sleeps until Gavin and Stacey

Melvyn Bragg once perceptively said that the 1970s McCartney had made a “magnificent attempt to be seen as, and to behave as, a very ordinary young English man” to hide the fact that “he was a most extraordinary young English man”.

Why Paul McCartney cannot let it be. The great Beatle and the shadow of John Lennon. By Helen Thompson

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

Just saw this in town.

Salisbury to Norfolk would be a decent walk

Thoughts on yesterday’s Tottenham - Chelsea match ⚽

• wasn’t it marvellous?

• caicedo was maybe lucky to stay on, but not as lucky as Kulusevski

• Spurs need to take action against the daft people who chucked stuff at our players, and the FA need to take action against the daft club that gave them the stuff to throw

• I love all sorts of music…but “Tottenham Hotspur, it’s happening again” is my favourite song

• The Athletic: Palmer’s Panenka penalty was as brilliant as it was utterly disrespectful.

• as I say…. marvellous

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

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

I particularly enjoyed

• the detail about the Broad Majestic Shannon from Shane’s sister

• Bob Geldof initially dismissing the Pogues as “paddy-whackery”

• 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.

David Squires on … the Fifa Man’s plan to make Saudi dreams come true

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

Jay Rayner on restaurants - Desi Yew Tree, Wolverhampton: ‘Part of the brilliance of Desi pub culture’

Thoughts on the Chelsea match this afternoon

• lovely to see a bit of proper ice-cold Cole Palmer magic again

• Caicedo man of the match imho

• great tackle by Cucarellla for the first goal

• indirect free kicks in the box seem really tough to score from

• 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

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il est ne le Devin enfant

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