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”.
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 ⚽
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wasn’t it marvellous?
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caicedo was maybe lucky to stay on, but not as lucky as Kulusevski
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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
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I love all sorts of music…but “Tottenham Hotspur, it’s happening again” is my favourite song
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The Athletic: Palmer’s Panenka penalty was as brilliant as it was utterly disrespectful.
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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
Lovely BBC radio doc about Shane Macgowan, with his wife, and his sister, and Nick Cave, and Bono, and Geldof, and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all
I particularly enjoyed
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the detail about the Broad Majestic Shannon from Shane’s sister
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Bob Geldof initially dismissing the Pogues as “paddy-whackery”
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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.
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
Thoughts on the Chelsea match this afternoon
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lovely to see a bit of proper ice-cold Cole Palmer magic again
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Caicedo man of the match imho
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great tackle by Cucarellla for the first goal
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indirect free kicks in the box seem really tough to score from
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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
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
I found out today that one of my favourite songs, I Say A Little Prayer is a song about Vietnam.
Growing up in England, this maybe never would have occurred to me
BBC Soul Music - I Say a Little Prayer for You
#TodayILearned
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