Derek Hales with possibly the most miserable player profile in football history, in a
#cafc
programme from 1979. Still my all-time favourite player, mind.
‘Melania Trump’ still sounds to me like someone Bertie Wooster might have become engaged to by accident after a misunderstanding at a country house weekend.
Bij metrostation De Akkers in Spijkenisse is een metro door het stootblok heengereden. Het treinstel bungelt zo'n 8 meter boven de grond en rust op een kunstwerk. Gekeken wordt hoe de metro geborgen kan worden. De metrobestuurder is voor controle naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.
Just a reminder that Blithe Spirit is on
@TalkingPicsTV
today at 4pm, yet another film that Margaret Rutherford steals entirely, because Margaret Rutherford steals every film in which she appears because she is Margaret Rutherford.
This 1931 letter complaining about vulgar BBC radio comedy reproduced in a newspaper at the time is solid gold. I absolutely need to hear "the one about the girl in the park".
@SamWhyte
Having said that, my mum and dad kept their Radio Times in a sort of faux leather folder with ‘Radio Times’ on the front in gold letters. Absolute notions.
Having worked so hard for Brexit for more than five years it shows great courage and principle for Dominic Cummings to quit just weeks before it’s consequences beco... oh, haaaaaaaaang on.
Was just heading for bed last night when it turned out the Northern Lights were putting on a show outside the window. Dropped my teddy, fired my dummy across the room, rushed to the front door in my jimjams and, hey presto.
If someone was to start a tv channel now screening old test matches in their entirety I would be all over that. Not even particularly significant ones, just Jim Laker and Richie Benaud from a windy, cloud-scudding Edgbaston circa 1982 - perfect.
The sun rose over the Channel this morning just as Sarah Thomas completed her four-way English Channel swim, which has to be one of the greatest feats of mental and physical endurance in human history. 54 hours in the water, a ten-minute break between each crossing.
Overheard in an Edinburgh greasy spoon earlier:
American tourist: Excuse me, what is this *brown* sauce?
Owner, in genuinely helpful tone: It’s brown sauce.
🚨BREAKING NEWS: The Grade II listed BT Tower (1961-65) is being sold for £275 million to MCR Hotels, for conversion to a luxury hotel.
We’ll be following this one closely…
Writed another book, innit. Out at the end of this month from
@BloomsburyBooks
. Some lovely people like
@NotRollergirl
said lovely things on the back that I don't remotely deserve and leave me quite undone, pals, quite undone.
We're all going to miss
@corrie_corfield
's dulcets coming out of the magic talking box after she reads her last Radio 4 news bulletin at 1800 this evening. One of the great radio voices and a proper excellent human being to boot.
@WhoresofYore
@DrAnnaBarry
When Noel Coward saw a poster for ‘The Sea Shall Not Have Them’ starring Dirk Bogarde and Michael Redgrave he commented, “Why not? Everyone else has.”
Quick humblebrag, hell, outright brag about my new office window view. A slight improvement from the brick wall and postage stamp of sky (if I craned my neck) I had before.
One of the things I love most about conversations with our local ice cream man is how he uses 'ice cream' as a verb: "When I'm ice creaming in town...".
I've often wondered what people actually mean when they call their country 'great' but today I learned that Slovenia has a Society For The Recognition Of Roast Potatoes As A Distinct Dish that organises a World Roast Potato Festival and now I'll WONDER NO MORE.
Oh my. The trailer for Michael Flatley's Michael Flatley film starring Michael Flatley is here and it looks like everything you'd hope Michael Flatley's Michael Flatley film starring Michael Flatley would be.
Michael Flatley's debut feature BLACKBIRD is heading for Irish cinemas on 2nd September.
✨ Starring Michael Flatley, Eric Roberts and Patrick Bergin
🎬 Written and directed by Michael Flatley
Check out the trailer 👇
#Blackbird
#MichaelFlatley
Thirty-somethingth edition of 'Attention All Shipping' arrived today. Amazing how it's stayed the distance. Gawd bless the enduring cultural appeal of the shipping forecast.
On this day last year I year I posted a thread detailing the history I'd found behind my 1928 copy of The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Well, a year on, for Burns Night, here's an update.
This hip young gunslinger - my ma - is 80 today. 80! Once punched a policeman in the stomach when he tried to stop her getting to the stage door to meet Bill Haley. Don't mess with Ma Connelly. Could still pack a fair right hander, I reckon.