The work on Salisbury’s new riverside walk has been a nuisance, especially for the wonderful Elai restaurant, but its great that it’s open again now and i think its going to be great
Only 13 more CLs and Chelsea will actually be level with Real Madrid ⚽
This Blinken chap has got something about him
As we reported earlier, Russia has accused the White House of trying to “eliminate” a political rival in Donald Trump.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Prague, was just asked about the comment.
“I would say that’s a classic case of projection,” he says.
BBC News - Donald Trump’s guilty verdict - we answer your questions live - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…
Another proposed entry for the next edition of The Meaning of Liff, this one for people of a certain age
Lydiard Tregoze: the amount of time it takes to realise that you’ve got the wring flipping glasses on
Proposed entry for a future edition of The Meaning of Liff
Lockeridge: the time spent staring into space, wondering what that password that you use every day might possibly be.
#TodayILearned that tomatos were thought very poisonous in North America until a chap called Colonel Johnson publicly ate one in 1820
You are there - Colonel Johnson eats a love apple youtu.be/n7_rdLNB6…
This has been one of my favourite reggae songs over the last couple of years
#TodayILearned, via Record Collector magazine, that ‘Niney’ was given that name as a nickname because he lost his thumb in an an accident
Blood and Fire by Niney The Observer songwhip.com/nineytheo…
I’d give this article a solid 4.5 :)
‘Entire evenings of my life have been shaped by the internet’s review culture’: why we’re obsessed with rating systems Joel Golby
Recommended TV: Avoidance
The blurb says: “Newly separated Jonathan has no home, no friends and no ambition. Can a slightly useless single dad find some much-needed backbone? Warm-hearted comedy with Romesh Ranganathan”
I say: Very funny. I cringed so hard I could have slipped a disc or something.
Bette Davis on Jackie DeShannon’s song, Bette Davis Eyes
Bette Davis was also a fan. “She said the song made her cool to her grandchildren,” DeShannon says with a laugh.
From this month’s Record Collector magazine
I may be wrong, but I think that if we’d had more working-class people in the House of Commons, and fewer professionals, then we’d have more Bank Holidays
There hasn’t been a new annual holiday since the 1970s
Alan Shearer finishes every other sentence with ‘and rightly so’….and rightly so. ⚽
Harold Wilson, Leonid Brezhnev, and 'all the football'
This is fun, although the first bit is a tad unfair on Rishi, who does seem to be a proper football fan ⚽
This is on Harold Wilson and Leonid Brezhnev
“So there was no posturing towards the common man in his carrying around a postcard of the 1924 team, but it was a bit weird how often he got it out of his wallet to show it to people.
Anyway, he did that to Brezhnev, and Brezhnev thought he wanted an autograph, and signed it for him. So after that, he was carrying his beloved team, signed by the general secretary of the Communist party. This is really Brezhnev’s gaffe.”
Hoping for wins for all the ‘S’s this weekend - Saints, Seltic and Siteh ⚽
I’ve been wondering whether I could come up with 47 reasons why the election’s on the 4/7…..I reckon I could do 20, but not 47
Music news.
I much prefer Shakira’s latest LP to Beyonce’s latest LP
I hope Beyonce won’t be too upset.
One guy I’ve not seen mentioned in relation to the vacancy at Chelsea
Hopefully I’ll be proved wrong when we win the Premiership at a canter next season……but letting Pochettino go seems like a daft decision ⚽
It’s been a while since I posted a picture of HobNob. Here he is with the Giant, as depicted in the mural by my footballing friend Fred Fieber
I think it’s important, on a Monday morning, to set one’s goals for the working week.
My goal for this week: stop spelling ‘Terraform’ as ‘Terrafrom’