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I feel that, if I live long enough, the stones will turn out to have come from Antarctica, or a passing asteroid or something

Seeking a Scottish source: Updating the story of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone In CA 415, we reported on new scientific analysis suggesting that the origins of the Stonehenge Altar Stone lay hundreds of miles from Salisbury Plain, in the Orcadian Basin of north-east Scotland.

The Past - Seeking a Scottish source: Updating the story of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone

Just read this bit, at the end of the Pickwick Papers

Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

We missed out on Southampton - Chelsea tickets….I think my hit rate is down to 1 in 5

Random painting of Salisbury

Merritt, H. S. - St. Ann’s Gate, Salisbury, 1943

I used to go through this gate to go to school, but not in 1943

V & A page with a bit more detail

Today seems a good day for a rom-com

I just finished this. Lovely show. The proportion of rom to com is maybe higher than I’m used to, but I enjoyed it.

I shot this at Hengistbury Head a couple of weeks ago. I find it quite relaxing

Wish it was longer really…

I’m sure these are all really good and well worth going to…..but the phrase ‘festive theatre shows’ seems to me to translate to ‘poor substitutes for panto’

Deck the stalls! 20 of the UK’s best festive theatre shows - the Guardian

I didn’t know this existed but I want to read it

One of my favourite comics has written a memoir about following my favourite team

⚽📖 #ChelseaFC

Good luck, America 🤞🤞

Paul Merton on Have I Got News For You

No one is irreplaceable in show business. But we’ll keep going until the sun explodes and consumes the Earth, which will be the top story the following week.

‘I was a stuffed shirt, he was an oik’ – Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on making Have I Got News for You

The hashtag for Man United Vs Chelsea always reminds me of …..

⚽ #MunChe

(annual-ish toot / tweet / post)

I like it when people use the word ‘weblog’ but I often read it as something like’wedding-blog'

I’m enjoying the #Powershell tips module. I’ve already learnt a couple of things….and I’ve been using Powershell for about 103 years

GitHub - deadlydog/PowerShell.tiPS: PowerShell tips delivered straight to your terminal 💻

There’s a video about contributing here:

PowerShell tiPS module - How to add your PowerShell tips to share them with the world

It was some while before MGM was off to see a profit from the wonderful Wizard of Oz – specifically, until it was reissued in 1949. Over the Rainbow was nearly cut pre-release, because executives felt the Kansas sequence was too long.

This list has some of my very favourite films on it

‘It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen’: 10 film flops that became classics – ranked! - The Guardian

I was half-listening to Graham Norton the other night but I missed this

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In a development that absolutely must not catch on, something interesting has happened on a TV chatshow….

Redmayne’s revelation that he was shown how to use a phone as a weapon if attacked proves quite the hoot, with Mescal riffing on the absurdity – “Who’s actually going to do that, though?” – Norton chiming in, and Denzel laughing along. Ronan is trying to say something but she gets honked over, before managing to cut through with a line for the ages: “That’s what girls have to think about all the time”.

Opinion - I don’t expect stone-cold truths from a chatshow, but Saoirse Ronan delivered one - Marina Hyde - The Guardian]

Not sure how, all of a sudden, I’m quite so old….but I’m lucky to have lasted so long

“The British constitution is puzzling, and always will be” - Queen Elizabeth, on a visit to a new college building, to a politics seminar

Desert Island Discs - Peter Hennessy

It seems to have got dreadful reviews and I’ve not seen any of the other films but I enjoyed Venom 3

Not sure if this’ll work…but this is my Halloween playlist

Halloween playlist on Spotify

I don’t think I’ve posted this before. A sketch note/map that i did a few years ago of the walk from Salisbury to Stonehenge