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It’s the 59th anniversary today of one of the greatest anniversaries in British culture. I refer, of course, to the Dwile Flonking match between Beccles and Bungay, filmed by Pathé News, rescuing a traditional pastime from the centuries of obscurity in which it had been tragically languishing 🧵
Dwile Flonking (1967)
YouTube video by British Pathé
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January 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
It’s the 59th anniversary today of one of the greatest anniversaries in British culture. I refer, of course, to the Dwile Flonking match between Beccles and Bungay, filmed by Pathé News, rescuing a traditional pastime from the centuries of obscurity in which it had been tragically languishing 🧵
It’s the 306th anniversary today of the House of Commons first seeing a plan for the South Sea Company to take on an enormous chunk of government debt, giving rise, later in the year, to what Robert Chambers in his Book of Days called “the most monstrous commercial folly of modern times”
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
It’s the 306th anniversary today of the House of Commons first seeing a plan for the South Sea Company to take on an enormous chunk of government debt, giving rise, later in the year, to what Robert Chambers in his Book of Days called “the most monstrous commercial folly of modern times”
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I dislike this sort of didacticism. Anyway, a list of great short novels that doesn’t include JL Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’ (only 20,000 words long!) lacks any authority.
January 22, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I dislike this sort of didacticism. Anyway, a list of great short novels that doesn’t include JL Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’ (only 20,000 words long!) lacks any authority.
If I was being picky, I’d like a bit more history/analysis, but there’s something almost Betjemanesque about this programme, in the enthusiasm Millard has and the eccentric quests of preservation that his interviewees find themselves on. 22 days left to watch, apparently
BBC One - Hidden Wales: Last Chance to Save
Will Millard explores some of Wales’s hidden and vulnerable historic buildings.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 PM
If I was being picky, I’d like a bit more history/analysis, but there’s something almost Betjemanesque about this programme, in the enthusiasm Millard has and the eccentric quests of preservation that his interviewees find themselves on. 22 days left to watch, apparently
January needs another bank holiday in it
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM
January needs another bank holiday in it
It’s the 59th anniversary today of one of the greatest anniversaries in British culture. I refer, of course, to the Dwile Flonking match between Beccles and Bungay, filmed by Pathé News, rescuing a traditional pastime from the centuries of obscurity in which it had been tragically languishing 🧵
Dwile Flonking (1967)
YouTube video by British Pathé
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
It’s the 59th anniversary today of one of the greatest anniversaries in British culture. I refer, of course, to the Dwile Flonking match between Beccles and Bungay, filmed by Pathé News, rescuing a traditional pastime from the centuries of obscurity in which it had been tragically languishing 🧵
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‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’
January 21, 2026 at 9:26 PM
‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’
I can’t tell you how happy this makes me
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Looking for something to draw, I remembered your post the other day.
Looking for something to draw, I remembered your post the other day.
January 21, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I can’t tell you how happy this makes me
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On this day in 1859, doctor and naturalist Frank Buckland attended the Eland Dinner, where “a party of gentlemen, consisting of members of the Zoological Society and others interested in the progress of Natural History” enjoyed, er... “the freshly killed haunch of this African antelope”
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
On this day in 1859, doctor and naturalist Frank Buckland attended the Eland Dinner, where “a party of gentlemen, consisting of members of the Zoological Society and others interested in the progress of Natural History” enjoyed, er... “the freshly killed haunch of this African antelope”
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The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
I was on a bus once which went the wrong way and the driver said “Oh, sorry, I thought it was a 70, not a 75” and then went the right way again and now I’m wondering if it was a metaphor for something
January 21, 2026 at 11:56 AM
I was on a bus once which went the wrong way and the driver said “Oh, sorry, I thought it was a 70, not a 75” and then went the right way again and now I’m wondering if it was a metaphor for something
On this day in 1859, doctor and naturalist Frank Buckland attended the Eland Dinner, where “a party of gentlemen, consisting of members of the Zoological Society and others interested in the progress of Natural History” enjoyed, er... “the freshly killed haunch of this African antelope”
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
On this day in 1859, doctor and naturalist Frank Buckland attended the Eland Dinner, where “a party of gentlemen, consisting of members of the Zoological Society and others interested in the progress of Natural History” enjoyed, er... “the freshly killed haunch of this African antelope”
You know, there are many people to thank for getting me where I am today, but I think the most important is QT guy for pointing out something I put in my second tweet
January 21, 2026 at 8:34 AM
You know, there are many people to thank for getting me where I am today, but I think the most important is QT guy for pointing out something I put in my second tweet
Apparently, it’s Wednesday.
January 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Apparently, it’s Wednesday.
My Facebook memories today include a lot of witty banners from protests around his inauguration. Now, they’d all simply say “JUST FUCK OFF, WOULD YOU?”
Look, it's simple. We just want the worst person in the world to die
January 21, 2026 at 7:16 AM
My Facebook memories today include a lot of witty banners from protests around his inauguration. Now, they’d all simply say “JUST FUCK OFF, WOULD YOU?”
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Alchemy is real! Alchemy is real!! I don't know why this makes me so happy, but it does. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
The physicists made an unexpected breakthrough
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Alchemy is real! Alchemy is real!! I don't know why this makes me so happy, but it does. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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On this day 108 years ago, biographer, critic and Bloomsburyist Lytton Strachey went round Virginia Woolf’s gaff and talked dirty – and not for the first time. According to an entry in Woolf’s diary (written the following day)... 🧵
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[On Sunday] Lytton [Strachey] came to tea; stayed to dinner, and about 10 o'clock we both had that feeling of parched lips and used up vivacity which comes from hours of talk. But Lytton was most easy and agreeable. Among other things he gave us an amazing account of the British Sex Society which meets at Hampstead. They were surprisingly frank; and fifty people of both sexes and various ages discussed without shame such questions as the deformity of Dean Swift's penis; whether cats use the w.c., self abuse; incest – incest between parent and child when they are both unconscious of it, was their main theme, derived from Freud. I think of becoming a member. Lytton at different points exclaimed Penis: his contribution to the openness of the debate. We also discussed the future of the world; how we should like profes-sions to exist no longer; Keats, old age, politics, Bloomsbury hypnotism a great many subjects.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM
On this day 108 years ago, biographer, critic and Bloomsburyist Lytton Strachey went round Virginia Woolf’s gaff and talked dirty – and not for the first time. According to an entry in Woolf’s diary (written the following day)... 🧵
On this day 108 years ago, biographer, critic and Bloomsburyist Lytton Strachey went round Virginia Woolf’s gaff and talked dirty – and not for the first time. According to an entry in Woolf’s diary (written the following day)... 🧵
January 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM
On this day 108 years ago, biographer, critic and Bloomsburyist Lytton Strachey went round Virginia Woolf’s gaff and talked dirty – and not for the first time. According to an entry in Woolf’s diary (written the following day)... 🧵
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Letter in Times today
January 20, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Letter in Times today
Found where your boyfriend hangs out
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Found where your boyfriend hangs out
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'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'
January 20, 2026 at 1:20 PM
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'
Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously
