There was a Crass poster stuck up at Salisbury station yesterday - not seen that in a while
I don’t know what ‘My Catholic Enemy’ is about
Listening to Rob Delaney on Sean Keaveny and Iszi Lawrence’s Your Place or Mine
Delaney is clearly a comedy genius, but his sensibly or sense of humour or something is such that I swear he’s an English guy putting on an American accent
He’s maybe even Sean Keaveny putting on an American accent
Rob Delaney: Eastern Massachusetts, USA Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/pl…
The Most Grim-Faced of Churls - #AnyoneButArsenal
“Only the most grim-faced of churls would refuse to recognise the progress Mikel Arteta’s outstanding Arsenal side have made this season.”
Thinking of changing my bio to “the most grim-faced of churls”
#AnyoneButArsenal ⚽
Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the final day of the season
Last night I was reminded that:
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jogging in the countryside, and
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being a man of a certain age who needs to pee fairly frequently, and
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it being the height of stinging nettle season
…is a bad combination
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Recommended podcast: Origin Story
I’ve only discovered this podcast recently, but it seems very good
The blurb says
“[Lynsky and Dunt] “focus their attention on exploring a single over-used (and over-abused) word or phrase. Through a combination of historical, etymological and contextual analysis, they unmask the true meaning of our most popular misinterpreted expressions—giving listeners keen insight into the murky nature of political and societal communication.”
…but it’s an awful lot more entertaining, and usually less heavy than that
Origin Story - www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-st…
Origin Story - open.spotify.com/show/5Aog…
There was a recent story in the UK about a local council dropping apostrophes from road signs because
“All punctuation will be considered but avoided where possible because street names and addresses, when stored in databases, must meet the standards set out in BS7666”
Coincidentally, this pic popped up today, on my photos app ‘remember this’ thing
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/a…
Possibly the most British thing ever…Midge Ure doesn’t have his OBE to hand, but he does have a framed copy of a mickey-taking Viz page, entitled ‘Arise, Sir Midge’
Also, he has a (possibly fake) golden disc of Joe Dolce’s Shaddup Your Face - the song that kept Vienna off of number one
Word in Your Attic - Midge Ure youtu.be/ps5ktKeA1…
This is well worth a listen if you’re at all interested in football
The main things I got were:
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refereeing is more art than science, often more subjective than objective
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they need the VAR referees to be VAR specialists
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the system by which they score referees is ‘interesting’
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I still don’t really know why they do it
The Audio Long Read: The impossible job – inside the world of Premier League referees
I’m not going to name the pub, but we had a Sunday roast at the weekend. They said they’d do a nut roast as a veggie option…it turned out the ‘nut roast’ was Paxo stuffing, with cranberry sauce.
Tbh, I preferred that to some of the nut roasts I’ve had…but would’ve been happier if they’d said!
Today in the UK we are celebrating Oh-my-god-i’ve-somehow-forgotten-mothers-day-oh-no-i-haven’t-its-just-the-rest-of-the-world Day
It’s all very traumatic
Thoughts on yesterday (includes swears)
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Malo Gusto made a big difference when he came on
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we need to get the ball to Mudryk earlier and oftener
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Nkunku and Reece James on at the end is a glimpse of what might have been this season
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Nottingham was a much nicer place than I remember from 30 years ago
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I particularly enjoyed the Bombay Delicatessen
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I’ll be glad to see the back of that Eton Blue kit. It looks ok on people walking around town, but it’s a bit icky on a football pitch
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Nicholas Jackson vaulting over the wall into the crowd after scoring the winner was daft, and probably a bit dangerous, and it got him booked again…but it was a totally Nicholas Jackson thing to do and I loved it
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the Forest support was great. ‘Mull of Kintyre’ is random, but i loved the Shakira tune they do….and beginning the “Hudson-odoi, he left ‘cos you’re shit” chant within seconds of him scoring was quality, and more amusing in retrospect :)
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I thought Cole Palmer had a relatively quiet game, and I was surprised he got MOTM….but I hadn’t appreciated that first assist until I saw it on the telly
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I am going to miss Thiago Silva. One of my favourite recent book titles is ‘The Beatles are under-rated’. Well, I’d also say that Thiago Silva is under-rated. Massively.
Our AI overlords may be about to take over and enslave us all, but I’m reassured that St Pancras still auto-corrects to St Pancreas
Kettering has a pretty station
Went through London today, and managed to see the statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras
If I hadn’t gone through London I’d have gone through Dilton Marsh, which he wrote a poem about
“Was it worth keeping the Halt open,
We thought as we looked at the sky
Red through the spread of the cedar-tree,
With the evening train gone by?
Yes, we said, for in summer the anglers use it,
Two and sometimes three
Will bring their catches of rods and poles and perches
To Westbury, home for tea.
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.
O housewife safe in the comprehensive churning
Of the Warminster launderette!
O husband down at the depot with car in car-park!
The Halt is waiting yet.
And when all the horrible roads are finally done for,
And there’s no more petrol left in the world to burn,
Here to the Halt from Salisbury and from Bristol”
Steam trains will return.""
Finished reading: The Innocents by Bridget Walsh 📚
This wasn’t entirely my cup of tea, but i did enjoy it.
SPOILER ALERT - im not aure if it is a spoiler really, as its not part of the story….but the most shocking thing was in the afterword, when the author reveals that the tragedy in the story was a real event, albeit in Sunderland and not London.
I slept through what seems to have been the Lightshow of the Century last night, but it’s been lovely seeing social media awash with greens and purples and pink
Nice to see that the universe is beginning the celebrations for my 60th, albeit a couple of months early :)
Just tried connecting to IP address 15.0.4365.2….which, sadly, is not an IP address, it’s a SQLServer version
#NeedMoreSleep
Out dog-walking this morning, and saw a mum and son walking to school, with the mum blowing bubbles as they walked along
I don’t know whether that was the only way to get the kid to walk to school, or whether it was just for the joy of it
Either way, it seemed like fun
One man’s proverb is another man’s ‘wtf?’