Rik Mayall, 7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014 “The People’s Poet & Utter Bastard” via @JasonElsom.
People
History
Gives you hope for your own old age – D-Day parachute jump: 89-year-old perfects Normandy landing (Telegraph). An 89-year-old D-Day veteran wound the clock back 70 years on Thursday by parachuting into the same field where he landed during the Normandy invasion. Jock Hutton, 89, said it was “no problem” to jump from 5,000 feet […]
History
Society
A Limerick A Day (Broadsheet.ie): Let’s all be dismayed and aghast, At what happened back in the “dark past”, It may be the worst, But it isn’t the first, So for now let’s pretend it’s the last. John Moynes BBC: “The Tuam home was one of 10 institutions in which about 35,000 unmarried pregnant women […]
Cycling
This is an interesting idea that has been in use in Idaho (hence the name) since 1982. As someone who travels by bike, it would be useful, you can spend a lot of energy getting up to speed. Also, starting from a stop beside cars can be awkward, especially if they are turning and you’re […]
Aircraft & Flying
Moving Pictures
A breathtakingly low pass by a Spitfire flown by the legendary Ray Hanna, 18th July 1996, Duxford. (Better (un-embed-able) version available here)
Delorean Moments
History
Politics
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain John Gormley, late of the Green Party leadership, wrote a prescient article in the Village magazine around this time last year. In it, he listed some rules and lessons he’d learned the hard way during the Green Party’s term in government that led to […]
Europe
Politics
The most annoying thing about most of the commentary about the European elections is that it is dominated (as usual) by people who are only interested in elections, and entirely uninterested in what is actually going on — and what in the long run it might mean for society. John Naughton hits the proverbial nail […]
Politics
On air on RTE 1 TV at 3.55 with what we expect will be Eamonn Gilmore's statement of resignation as Labour Party leader — Bryan Dobson (@bryansixone) May 26, 2014 And the twitterverse is like:
Bits & Bobs
Life
Should be more ‘read’, but yeah, possibly not far wrong. 🙂 Via Reader | Broadsheet.ie.