David Warnes

Well worth a listen.

October 14th - a good day to be grateful to my parents for all their support & encouragement. All holidays included visits to historic sites & in 1966 this included Battle Abbey, though some months before the 900th anniversary.

The BBC News is wittering on about the Duchess of Sussex’s (irony alert) desire for privacy and an award-winning fat brown bear. These are not important enough to merit coverage.

Bon voyage et bonnes vacances. I fluked a 3.

Thank you @alcs.co.uk for today’s payment. Already earmarked for the new biography of M R James by @profdarryljones.bsky.social Now I don’t have to wait until Christmas.

That excellent series of TRIH has me wondering whether Magdala Crescent in Edinburgh was named after General Napier’s exploits.

The visiting cleric began, unforgettably: “I first knew my wife when she was 16.” Badly suppressed mirth from the teachers who were familiar with the Authorised Version. The colleague on my left whispered “Legal, but only just”.

Nancy Mitford updated.

Daughter asked a friend in RE if she was 'Catholic or prostitute'.

I just heard a BBC journalist interviewing a chatbot and then thanking it. Can we have more human intelligence at the BBC?

The BBC’s coverage of the dangers of AI pussyfoots round the fact that the companies developing it are owned by extremely wealthy men who are hoping to make even more 💰💰. Competitive greed is a significant part of this story.

Wordle 1,913 2/6 🟩⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fluked a 2 for the second day running.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Might Burnham call a snap General Election so that the spending rules would kick in immediately & stop Reform using much of the crypto billionaires’ donations until after the election?

The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history

As a grad student who did supervisions they happened in my digs. Happy days.

Was James Orr on The Moral Maze on Wednesday? Asking for a friend … 🤣🤣🤣

Cyclists must mind manners, and the blind www.thetimes.com/article/14fc... Read, mark, learn & inwardly digest @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

Any chance @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social that the profiteers you have allowed to litter the city with hire bikes could be persuaded to label all of them with the message WHEN YOU PARK THIS DON'T BLOCK A PAVEMENT? A pedestrian can sidle past these, a wheelchair user cannot.

The curse of the VOI bikes strikes again @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

Wordle 1,898 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Since when was that a word rather than an abbreviation?

Following the example of the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, I have decided to change the name of our local river here in the West End of Glasgow. I have signed an executive order to change its name to the RIVER KELVIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

RIP Tim Curry, Old Kingswoodian. His talent was already evident in a school production of Wm Golding’s The Brass Butterfly in which he starred as Phanocles.

So they’ll know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Hard Times are coming.

Chuffed to hear my punch needle Rooster is heading to Turkey once the St Martin's Art Exhibition closes. The exhibition is on this week, 12 noon - 4pm Monday to Friday and 10am - 2.30pm on Saturday. Cafe with home bakes. St Martin's Episcopal Church 232 Dalry Road Edinburgh. Admission is free.

@stephenjenkinson.bsky.social For the second time in a fortnight pavements at this corner have been blocked by the bikes hired out under the Council initiative to inconsiderate & in some cases reckless cyclists. How was my wife supposed to get past in her wheelchair? Answer - take to the road.

#otd Walter Scott was born. This is his description of Edinburgh, in "Marmion". @secretedinburgh.bsky.social georgehharris.blogspot.com/2014/10/edin...

Great that “A House Through Time” by @davidolusoga.bsky.social is now looking at a property in Edinburgh. Episode 1 includes a Pisky priest who helped French POWs to escape.

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You can find out more about the Church of the Good Shepherd in Murrayfied, Edinburgh, on our website here 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/churc... (3/3)

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That’s a must read. I first read Last and First Men as a teenager & enjoy periodic rereadings. There’s plenty of tragic disorder at the moment.

Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".

Wordle 1,866 6/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Phew indeed!

Wordle 1,863 X/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 It soon turned into a guessing game & I guessed incorrectly.

This summer there is an increased awareness of the climate crisis. Please, BBC, show again that excellent documentary "Big Oil Versus the World". It will be right on trend. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

It's new Prime Minister day! Days like this don't come every year, just pretty much every year.

Tree of the Day in Edinburgh’s Roseburn Park. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

History? "Oh, I just have not time to read those long books." No worries: my pieces are brief but not superficial. Here are a few reviews. (NB the review of "Getting to Know Edinburgh" is of the first edition. There is now an up-to-date Second Edition) georgehharris.blogspot.com/2020/01/my-h...

I have just heard someone on the BBC refer to the Bayeux Tapestry as depicting “the Norman invasion of Britain.” She clearly wasn’t paying attention in History lessons.

@BBCNews Your 1pm bulletin is increasingly tabloid. Obituaries of pop singers isn’t my idea of news.

Dear @BBCNews why is some technical row about a football tournament dominating the 1 o’clock news?

Happy Birthday, USA. Thanks for Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, the Marx Brothers, John P Marquand, Art Tatum. All these & many more outweigh Donald Trump in the balance.