Charlie Connelly
@charlieconnelly
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Author etc. 'Attention All Shipping' theatre show hawker. Books for @TheNewEuropean . #cafc . Navigated professionally by Cap'n @lizzykremer .
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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.
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So many people sharing stories of Barry Cryer being lovely to them. Here's mine.
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Now that's my kind of race. Perfect distance, and a bench to rest on if you get tired.
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‘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.
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Dutch train overshoots platform and is save from disaster by a sculpture of a whale’s tail.
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.
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@SamWhyte
I went to a friend’s house once and he said it was time for supper. Had literally no idea what he was talking about.
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Theresa May going back to Brussels today like the building site apprentice being sent out for a tin of tartan paint and a left-handed hammer.
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My Twitter feed is moving so fast I'm half-convinced Oscar Pistorius started the Iraq war but Lionel Messi is going to prison for it.
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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.
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Can't believe Johnson stopping three fellas' credit cards didn't work.
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Lots of Irish gay people in relationships avoiding expectant looks from their mammies over the breakfast table this morning.
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Someone needs to write a Waldorf and Statler origin film. Start with two young bucks swanking around Manhattan seduced by the sheer magic of theatre.
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Last night I learned that Captain Scott of the Antarctic's brother was a music hall drag artist called Malcolm.
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Best vaccination pic yet.
Finland: Lordi gets his second vaccine dose in Rovaniemi.
He says covid year has had its plus side:
'We've recorded 7 albums.'
Photo: Jouni Porsanger
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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".
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@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.
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Looks like there should be a sign the middle saying, 'Pardon?'.
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There once was a fella named Doyle,
Whose spuds slowly came to the boil.
“To make proper chips,”
He said smacking his lips,
“The secret is
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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.
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So you're playing golf, a plane from 1942 crash lands in front of you, you rush over to see if the pilot's OK and it's Indiana Jones.
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In Sainsbury’s joining the ranks of men standing by half-filled trolleys have been instructed not to move from that spot.
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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.
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This ambient noise generator recreates being at sea on a tanker AND INCLUDES THE SHIPPING FORECAST.
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No whinging in 1953 - just straight-up masky glamour.
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"So you're now saying you didn't promise £350million a week to the NHS even though it was on the side of your bus?"
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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.
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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.
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'Our wild days are behind us,' announce Fleetwood Mac.
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Fella bottom left has no time for your ‘live on global television’ nonsense.
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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.
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I learn from Christmas with nephews that “Jingle bells, Batman smells,” passes unchanged down the generations. It’s literally a folk song now.
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Happy 100th birthday to the shipping forecast, first broadcast on this day in 1924. And, bless my soul, here’s a podcast tailor-made for the occasion.
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Most of that cost is going on giant kitten insurance.
🚨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…
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The Gunpowder Plotters were quite clever picking a night when loads of fireworks would be going off anyway.
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@anthony_mcgowan
@ScapegoatCC
It would have to be called 'Don't Think The Game Is All Honey'.
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Melania Trump sounds like someone Bertie Wooster would have become accidentally engaged to, with hilarious consequences.
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Cricket at Bath, c1900.
Woman 1: Pub?
Woman 2: Pub.
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Every day should start with Margaret Rutherford doing the twist.
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Don’t know why, but in the supermarket earlier I felt a sudden urge to go to Scarborough.
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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.
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For the day that’s in it, here’s a thread about my copy of Burns’ Poetical Works and the story I found behind it.
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I don't think I can listen for that long.
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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.
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This shop is the lovely Winchester Bookshop in, well, Winchester, run by the lovely
@barton_ink
who has never lured anyone to their death.
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@edwest
@holland_tom
It amazes me there's a photograph of a man who was on the Victory at Trafalgar (James Sharman).
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@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.”
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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.
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That reminds me, I must clean out the veg drawer at the bottom of the fridge.
Swimmers enjoy warm weather in London at the Sky Pool which is believed to be the world’s first transparent pool built between two skyscrapers
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Someone at the publishers made this and here I am lashing it up on the right day because I am an absolute whizz at promotion, and stuff.
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The bass riff on Eminem's 'My Name Is' was played by Dave out of Chas and Dave.
What’s your favourite pop fact? Mine is probably that Dr. Alban (It’s My Life) isn’t a real doctor, but IS in fact a real dentist.
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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...".
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"Christ, no, just the *opening* ceremony." - Danny Boyle, for the rest of his life.
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Nothing makes me want to open an e-mail more than the subject line 'Find out more about our updated terms of service'.
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I love absolutely everything about this report of a bathing machine mishap at Ramsgate in 1801.
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Woken up to this. I love sleeper trains. If I was minted I’d use them all the time even to go short distances. London to Brighton via Fort William.
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"How do the lockers work, mate?"
"A quid? That's some racket!"
"Oh, you get it back. Right, cheers."
- Full extent of my locker room banter.
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People interpreting Killer's taciturn misanthropy here as some kind of character flaw should remember that he's grumpy - and armed.
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The best thing you'll see today and it's not even 7am yet.
Photographer Reunites People He First Spotted On The Streets 40 Years Ago - Flashbak
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@conor_pope
Pfft, yet when I sent you a fan letter every day for five years it was all 'gardai' this and 'injunction' that.
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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.
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That title is genius.
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Just popping in for a quick look at the oul’ Twitter.
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An occasion when inverted commas around a film title could have been handy.
http://t.co/3Fn289qdjk
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You’ve left out the ‘absolute’ in front of ‘state’.
Tánaiste Simon Coveney is expected to brief the Cabinet today on the state of the Brexit negotiations
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In honour of the British Museum's 260th birthday today here's one of its finest moments, from 1900.
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Had an advance copy of the Last Train To Hilversum paperback today and, hoo boy, it looks good. Out 23rd Jan - please judge this book by its cover.
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That time Margaret Rutherford invented the selfie stick.
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I'll be sure not to miss it, sounds brilliant, thanks for the tip!
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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
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This morning’s sunrise as seen from the Channel. Just before that wave smacked me in the chops.
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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.
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I have become a person who makes a cup of tea and a flask of tea so I don’t have to get up and go back to the kettle again.
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This French goalkeeper from 1913 is my all-time favourite footballer literally just on the strength of this photograph.
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When you visit your dad who has advanced Alzheimer's, tell him a joke and see him smile for the first time in months. That's a good day.
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It's been the kind of day that needs to end with a picture of Margaret Rutherford in a vintage car.
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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.
For the day that’s in it, here’s a thread about my copy of Burns’ Poetical Works and the story I found behind it.
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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.
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Strong sense of childhood nostalgia about this Easter with its combination of chocolate eggs and tangible threat of nuclear annihilation.
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Interviewing Nicholas Parsons for a cricket documentary was the most fun I ever had in a radio studio. What a life. What a career.
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My first ever homegrown schpuds! From earth to plate in a little over an hour.
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