Impressive

I have been in Johannesburg for 3 days and I am proud to say I’ve eaten at Nando’s 4 times.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮 https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman/113864363146854149

21 Jan, 2025

“The joy of watching a Lionel Messi will always outweigh the cringe of listening to an Infantino”

Finished reading Blue was the Colour. It’s a book about my favourite football team, by one of my favourite comics….so of course I like it. Marvellous, if slightly gloomy, book. ⚽📖

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18 Jan, 2025

I’m sorry if they aren’t available outside the UK, but Hugh Bonneville reading Sherlock Holmes is good fun

BBC Sounds - Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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18 Jan, 2025

The best thing about AI chat sites is that they allow you to ask stupid questions in a stupid way.

17 Jan, 2025

Mark Thomas's Pet Hates

I thought these were funny. Comedian Mark Thomas’s pet hates, from The Irish Times , quoted by Colin Murray on Midnight Meets Midnight Meets

The way Desert Island discs doesn’t play the full song.

The smug class-ridden blather of [Radio Four’s] Today programme.

Anything that involves Piers Morgan and an absence of violence.

Harley Davidson motorbikes and the over 50-year-olds that ride them.

Anyone who has been in a gymkhana.

Any film with Josh Grogan.

Litter and the people who complain about litter.

The Proms.

Christmas markets.

Dyson, the man not the machines.

Ageing.

The BBC notion of balance and inpartiality that invariably sides with the overdog and the establishment, but still manages to say “well we’ve had complaints from everybody, so we have probably got it about right”.

My children ‘borrowing’ my clothes.

News about the Royal Family.

S**t coffee that costs £2.50

Buying water in plastic bottles.

Macaroni cheese.

Having to throw away half of the weekend papers.

People talking about their piercings.

Garden centres.

John Lewis Xmas adverts and the coverage thereof.

Q and A’s

(NB: Tories, capitalism, sexism and racism come under serious hates.

16 Jan, 2025

15th of January, here in the Shire, is halfway through winter, by some calculations….I’m looking forward to Spring

15 Jan, 2025

Another thought from last night ⚽

I really, really, really want this car

15 Jan, 2025

I wonder if any of Bob Dylan’s LP’s have ever been advertised on a poster this big? In Andover?

Poster for Bob Dylan biopic film at Andover station

15 Jan, 2025

Thoughts on Chelsea - Bournemouth

lovely to see Reece score
the first goal was sublime.
Not entirely sure how Jackson wriggled free of three of their players for that goal
our confidence is so fragile…it felt like it evaporated in the half a minute after that Sanchez’s misplaced pass
Maresca could probably have made the changes earlier
all 11 of our players seemed to be making mistakes…whether that was Bournemouth playing well or us playing badly I don’t know
I really need to nail down the best way of getting back to Waterloo
I’m far too old to be running up escalators to make the 22.50

14 Jan, 2025

Nice story about Brian Clough in the Telegraph today, from the Liverpool player Phil Thompson

Thompson views that rivalry as one of mutual respect rather than among the most hostile in English football. “I knew how much the Forest lads loved Cloughie from the England get-togethers and experienced a little of his man-management myself,” he says.

“There was a game at the City Ground when I had a bad ankle injury and it needed stitching up. I was on the treatment table and in a bad way with the doctor working on me, pulling the skin over my ankle. Cloughie popped his head in and could see what was going on, so started talking to me and telling me what a great player he thinks I am.

“He just kept talking away and it dawned on me later how he was taking my mind off the injury. Не went up in my estimation after that.

14 Jan, 2025

Reasons I’d like to be famous

to be one of the VIPs on a half-marathon (because they get very well looked after)
so I could get the people on the Who Do You Think You Are show to do my family tree (because I can’t really be bothered )

14 Jan, 2025

Watercolour skies in the Shire this morning