Set a new personal best today, saw a bridge with nine Union Jack flags on it. This was just a dual carriageway, too, not even a full six lane motorway. Nine flags at, what, £5 each? That's a fair layout.
Football in the winter, cricket in the summer. Darts and snooker when hell freezes over. Doing the job that's in front of me.
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Set a new personal best today, saw a bridge with nine Union Jack flags on it. This was just a dual carriageway, too, not even a full six lane motorway. Nine flags at, what, £5 each? That's a fair layout.
I wouldn't call this today's office, but it is where I went this morning.
Plenty of great roles, but I always liked this one. "Tell him I'm coming!" youtu.be/vfWPKR21jV8?...
THIS. IS. THE. WAY.
BBC News - Record numbers get into uni and other A-level results takeaways - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Confirming the long held primary school playground hypothesis that boys go to college to get more knowledge and girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider.
Not sure about the latest release from The Carpenters back catalogue.
I still chuckle at the memory of Peggy shouting 'happiness' in a mirror over and over to prepare for doing a sex education class. I'll have to look the new ones up.
I'm not presuming anything until I've seen it. I mean, if you presume, you make an... Oh, never mind.
I know Ben Stokes likes a run chase, but personally I bloody love a good wicket chase.
I didn't fall off, but somebody will need to go back to put the new one up.
So, as I'm halfway up the ladder for the first time, a thought occurred to me. I thought that I'd better not fall off. I could just imagine the conversation that would follow. "What happened to him?" "He fell off the roof at the crematorium." "..." "Sorry, what?"
At one point I had to climb a ladder to the roofline, then up the roof to the actual aerial\receiver bit. Had to go up three times in total. Short version is that the part is broken, needs replacing.
Anyway, I meant to tell you, last Friday, I was a customer site most of the day. About half of their WiFi is down, looks like their point-to-point is out. (The bit that joins two buildings, but using WiFi.)
Still occasionally go back to Ozzy & Tony closing the Birmingham Commonwealth games with Paranoid. Just two blokes in their early 70's going at it. Marvellous.
Well.
First part, yes, probably. Second part, exactly, nobody calls them that. If you were told about a band called Ecstasy, you'd assume they were a 90's dance outfit...
XTC related tale.. bsky.app/profile/samc...
That new stadium really is a spectacular sight.
Just to check, the closing of the Straits of Hormuz needs approval? But the bombing that led directly to that action did not require approval? I'm British, so I'm not directly involved here, but you can pretty much guarantee that we will be.
Six behind on first innings. I'll take that. Puts Friday evening's wailing and gnashing of teeth into perspective.
Is this a good time for the old maxim that you don't call a game until both sides have batted...?
Come on. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
Not sure, tbh. It's a customer's site. On Portland Street. A building with 21 floors, where the lift stops at floor 20...
I'm in the same neck of the woods, but on the 21st floor. View is wonderful, but I don't belong here, so I'm not pointing my camera at the window. I'm sure I can get something on the way out...
...of Nagasaki and Hiroshima led to Japanese surrender. But they were going to attack with submarine aircraft carriers. They had a submarine that could carry 3 bombers which could be launched from the top of the submarine. Submarine. Aircraft. Carriers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-c...
...thought was safe because it was too far from any significant US bases. It wasn't safe. All of this is remarkable, but the bit that's really boiling my brain is the planned Japanese attack on Ulithi in June 1945. The attack never arrived, it was called off after the bombing...
Imagine the food, fuel, spare parts...to service that much hardware. They had a barge which produced 1900 litres of ice cream per shift. All of these supplies had to come from the US mainland. All this was to act as a Base for the invasion of Okinawa, a place the Japanese...
In September 1944, a unit of US engineers arrived there. In less than six months they had expanded the air strip, brought in enough supplies and anchorage for 700 ships, and the buildings to hold it all. They built a theatre that held an audience of 1200 and a 500 seat church.
This morning I heard of the tiny Pacific atoll of Ulithi, it's basically between Japan and Australia, a tiny speck of land which is as far from San Francisco as SF is from London. It's a tiny, tiny lump of land a really long way from the US mainland. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulithi
Honestly spent a second thinking that it doesn't look anything like Gillian Anderson and then the penny dropped...
*picks up speaker and holds next to face* "Play some X T C." "Shuffling songs by Ecstasy." Out. Get out. Right. New plan. "Play 'Senses Working Overtime'" "Playing 'Senses Working Overtime' by Ecstasy." What?
Woke up with a tune in my head, so I approached our Generic Home Smart Speaker. "Alexa (for it is she), play some XTC." "Shuffling songs by Ecstasy." No. Stop. Maybe it's my accent? "Play some songs by X T C." "Shuffling songs by Ecstasy." No. Stop.
Never miss a chance to use your favourite gif.
Must have been around the same time that we passed Charles Dance on Oxford Street. He was gone that quickly that I just had time to turn to my family and say, "Was that Charles Dance...?"
Saw a locally famous footballer going in to B&Q years ago. I genuinely stopped in my tracks. He wasn't wearing a red hat, but he did go in through the out door.
Was she barefoot? Possibly. I'm not sure that AI is quite the threat some folk claim.
Nac Mac Feegle!
I have, actually. Biggest would have been, 500-600? Through city of Lancaster. That went well enough, but was nowhere near this scale and was just bodies, no vehicles. I keep saying 'I don't know' and 'I suspect'. I'm saying that because I don't know, I just suspect. Never claimed to be an expert.
As a platoon? A company? I don't know, but I suspect that a march on this scale is more complex.
Diana Vickers...?
Yeah, as one unit of, say, company strength? 100-120 (?) people? That's one thing, but coordinating a march on that scale is another thing entirely. Possibly a fault of the organisers rather than the participants?
The shots of the troops marching out of step? It looked like they were taking smaller paces, maybe they'd just got too close to the guys in front? Marching on that scale is not easy...
See, that's what I was just thinking. We Brits have had centuries of these parades to get it right, the units who take part regularly practice, on the actual streets, overnight. It takes practice, experience, you can't just throw soldiers at it and expect it to work seamlessly.
No sign of 'Born In The USA' I suppose...? 19, Paul Hardcastle?
I mean, I'm feeling quietly confident. Was watching Band Of Brothers last night.
It was some jeans. (I don't come on here enough, forgot all about this. Thought I'd better get rid before it turns into one of those year's long gags that others are much better at.)
Yeah, it wasn't just the furniture for me, but the ripping out of (admittedly ancient) sliding doors & internal windows, the plastering, painting and new carpet that all had to be done before it arrived...
Wasn't there something similar in the first series? A last minute, sacrificial traitor left with a barb that gave the game to the faithful? It could still go either way.
Seems legit.
Return Of The Mackerel. Cod Is A DJ. Goldfishfinger... . I'm sorry.
Salford.
We Gotta Get Trout Of This Plaice. #Fishsongs #DoubleBubble
So that's a...£7 computer...?
I hope there's an unboxing video after all this...?
I played 'It Takes Two' with our youngest, genuinely haven't had that much fun in a game for a long time. It's just good fun.
Probably.
Cleared the driveway, cleared the car, all good. Just in time for the afternoon snow. Feels like it's melting, doesn't feel cold out at all. Be reyt.
"Marie has set up home with a man who's half my age. A halfwit in a leotard stands on my stage."
Where did you leave all self-respect? You look like a reptile your house is a wreck, You're existence an insult, Stains that are suspect cover your clothes...
Series 2 started tonight.
So it looks like Phil Neville is still the best manager from Fergie era United? Whod'a thunk it?
Get rid of the borders, stop smuggling in one move.
Debbie Does Fuck. . Am I doing this righ
It was never going to last forever, it's inevitable that these runs end in disappointment, but this feels particularly harsh.
I see Chris McCausland has come a long way since he ran a market stall in Edinburgh. #ReferenceForTheToddlers
Why is it always Ohashi that gets a kicking?
Depends on the size of the cake.
#MuskIsADingle
Rovers short passing game is so bloody good at times.
Watch it back, slow it down. It's an oggie.
Delighted though I am, was that an own goal? Did the defender put it in...? #Rovers
About as far over the line...
How do you fit a pillow in a condom?
My 11yo son has just pointed at a lamb in a nativity scene and said, "Looks a bit sheepish..."
Anybody want to guess what I'd just bought?
Now that I think about it, England winning the 50 over World Cup is one of my fondest memories, mainly because they sat to watch it with me.
Every single time.
I think The Boys might be the other way, if they see me jumping up and down, they might watch with me. Seems to work with occasional sporting tournaments...
Yeah, nice moves. In hindsight, that's the only way I've ever got them to watch anything. I must try it more often.
Sounds like something an assassin on the run might say...
You managed to get your child to watch a film with you? That's an achievement in itself.
Showed this to my kids last night. The 15yo rolled his eyes, the 11yo laughed like a drain. That laugh will make me smile every time I remember it. bsky.app/profile/samc...
Also, it's in Burnley.
Think tonight might be a bit weird. Xmas party for a company I left a fortnight ago. I've plenty of friends there, it's them I'm going to see. It's the way things go that I'll probably not see many of them again.
Oh, I like him. Big, strong, holds the ball up. I'd like to see him as part of two up top, but I'm certainly not going to tell the manager his job the way he's going...
Oh, I've seen the name, I just don't know who they are.
I don't even know who the asshole is, I just want to join in.
Excellent win, could have gone either way in those conditions.
Papa Gueye incoming.
Some of Rovers short passing has really let them down. Putting themselves under pressure.
I showed my kids last night, the 15yo rolled his eyes, but I got a proper laugh from the 11yo. Like a sprinkling of gold dust.
Bit disappointed nobody bothered with this, tbh. It's Dual IPA, innit.