I’m so good, I can turn two sentences into an 18 page PowerPoint presentation.
— Gary Taylor (@GaryTaylor67) June 11, 2020
On the third day…
HS2 the future
If you really want to spend money on infrastructure projects…
East coast rover
Nobody guessed, or nobody knew. Or nobody cared (much more likely). It’s Berwick-Upon-Tweed, taken from a moving train on the East Coast Main Line.
Apostrophe catastrophe
You’re having a laugh…
See that eighth most-popular joke at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe? It looks familiar…
Happy the man
I replied to say that the first part of the poem, translated slightly differently, forms the chorus to a brilliant song called The Booklovers by The Divine Comedy:
Happy the man, and happy he alone
who in all honesty can call today his own;
He who has life and strength enough to say
‘Yesterday’s dead & gone – I want to live today’
I’m not there yet. I’m working on it, but I can feel time running out on me.
Throwback Thursday
World Book Day
When I am old…
… I shall drink purple. This is called a Black Jack, a rum-based cocktail at Alchemist in Leeds. Pour over the ice, then squirt something out of a syringe onto it. Meh.
