Hengistbury Head and the Needles in the background
Hengistbury Head - I read that it doesn’t really have much to do with Hengist
Theresa May gets it right here. It was appalling that Putin tried to assassinate someone on British soil, and it was just unbelievable that they didn’t care about who else got poisoned
“May said the men acted with “utter recklessness”. She said: “You felt they just didn’t care about anything.”
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:
James Cleverly has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership race
This seems like fantastic news for Labour, and probably also for Nigel Farage….but it doesn’t seem like great news for the country
#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
Beautiful day in The Shire…if you can avoid the rain
After years and years of having an Android phone, I’ve only just discovered the usefulness of the Gboard personal dictionary, with the suggestion bar turned on.
I’ve got ‘xxm’ set up to generate a markdown link
Gboard settings can be accessed by long pressing the comma
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I enjoyed Supacell, but it did make South east London seem a bit grim.
I was hoping a bit for superheroes in capes laying waste to Lewisham High Street.
That didn’t happen…but it’s a great show
As the commentator pointed out, it looks a bit like Everton are playing Saudi Arabia :(
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
One of the Conservative candidates for their Leadership was just on the telly.
The reporter asked if she’d speak to him (and therefore to the country), and she said “No…I’m speaking to the members”
That’s kind of the Conservatives' problem in a nutshell
And perhaps a problem with party politics generally
I still miss Jose
The Fenerbahce manager, José Mourinho, was booked by the referee on Sunday after he protested against a VAR decision to disallow a goal by placing a laptop in front of a TV camera and displaying a picture in an effort to show the offside decision was incorrect
José Mourinho booked for bizarre laptop VAR protest in Fenerbahce match
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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
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For me this is a music podcast of Avengers Assemble - the blokes from Sodajerker meet the blokes from Word in Your Ear
I particularly enjoyed the implication that if you don’t like “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, then you can’t call yourself a Beatles fan
What the sodajerkers know about songwriting
That’s kind of irritating….the much-used-by-me ‘Format Document’ command in VS Code has a different keyboard shortcut in Linux
- Windows is Shift + Alt + F
- Linux is Ctrl + Shift + i
