jrsdavies.bsky.social
Old bloke. Now back living in NE London after sojourns in Oxford, Liverpool, Bloomsbury, Boston MA, Cardiff and N Ireland. Reads, sings in choirs, worries about Leyton Orient. Occasionally blogging at https://oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com/
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Galbraith's creation of that fourth goal was a masterpiece #lofc
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Agree. No team details on football page (and no non-league at all), no cricket scorecards ... I reckon about 2/3rds would have been written on Friday, or earlier
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It's in the usual place in my edition. Sport is hopelessly light on detail, though
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Whereof we cannot speak ...
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I'd like to know more about the Hallaton bottle kicking, though
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It's the depressing short-termism of the loan system in the lower leagues generally. Meanwhile promising young home-grown #lofc players like Sweeney and Obiero sit on the sidelines
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Dedicated Follower of Fashion. And I say that as a fan of most of Ray Davies's output
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It's app-mania. Haven't we all got more than enough bloody icons on our phones already, for things we're never going to need?
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Went for routine checkup at a London hospital y'day. Technician had a N American accent, so I asked him if he was from Canada. 'Unfortunately, no' was his answer (he was from Colorado)
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... in a world where the frustrations of day-to-day life are made worse by download-this-app and your-call-is-important-to-us machinery, anything that appears to continue this trend is not welcome. Where is the political programme that promises to make life easier? (2/2) #AI
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Have just noticed that #lofc have registered the fewest draws in League One. So a run of 1-1 results would be most welcome
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Politicians have a tragic lack of ambition to actually change the economy to one that takes care of ordinary people.
The crumbling welfare state & visible inequality is being exploited by the far right to present migrants as a scapegoat.
They act like they want it to get worse. #r4today
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One thing you learn if you've lived in N Ireland is not to say 'the mainland'. It's usually 'across the water' or 'the rest of the UK'
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Grew up in London (Welsh father, Essex mother), have lived in Cardiff and near Belfast. Still haven't been to Edinburgh, though have visited Glasgow and elsewhere in Scotland
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Agree it was too long. But why do people (especially north Americans, in my experience) think Brideshead was a BBC thing? It was a Granada production, on ITV
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I notice that TfL also expected 'a large crowd with farm animals' outside the Royal Courts of Justice this morning. Did that materialise?
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Still, they won't get relegated. Or will they? #lofc
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My copy of AG's Desertion ends on page 262