Chris Hall

View towards Canterbury from the North Downs Way

St Peter's Church, Bekesbourne, Kent this afternoon

Boat Race coverage on Channel 4 was awful. Inane presenter kept on asking crew members "How are you feeling?" Can't they think of some diffeent questions?! Plus he announced that the winning Cambridge Men's crew had lost!

Still we did get to see Spandau Ballet in their New Romantic clobber, plus Bucks Fizz whipping their skirts off

There wasn't half some rubbish in the charts in 1981! #TOTP

Good Friday at Canterbury Cathedral

@TiceRichard My council tax in Kent has gone up!

Reform will bring your bills down

100 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starter - percolation, Smiley, Balkan/Levant, DH Lawrence, Buenos Aires. 10 bonus - Navajo,Ash,World Series Cricket, Tony Greig, West Indies, Nicaragua, San Marino, Mary Magdalene, Amiens, Rebecca West. Plus my birthplace Ashford, Kent got a mention!

Palm Sunday donkey - Bridge, Kent

@Juddyboy68 @ThrillaRilla369 Good one. I had a PE teacher who slippered a load of us for taking too long to get changed 🤬😂

@ThrillaRilla369 Last year of school 15-16 years old 5 of us decided not to do sport, it was our last lesson and we all got slippered on our arses, Thank you Mr Matthews. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤣

Did you ever get hit by a teacher as a kid?

95 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Black, Psalms, Col. 13 bonuses - Gorgons, Far From The Madding Crowd, Pride and Prejudice, Festival of Britain, Clerk, R.L. Stevenson, Rotterdam, St Francis of Assisi, Liszt, Mary I, Act of Settlement, Male primogeniture, Charlton Athletic

Stampeding lambs

@dailystar Canterbury is a city, not a town

A man who is stranded in the UK town being ravaged by a meningitis outbreak has described the re-emergence of covid-era measures. dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-ne…

@dailowe The questions are so long-winded! seem to be worse than usual this series

@chrishall62 36 for me, sporadically #universitychallenge

65 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Mendelssohn and British National Grid, 9 bonuses - Monteverdi, Aphra Behn, Bute, Mull, Crucifixion, Devonian, Orkney, Elgar and Malawi

re Aphra Behn - we have a statue of her here in Canterbury

@literarybritain An atmospheric place though it is years since I last went there - think it was 1991 - and did an earlier trip in the early 1980s when I was a student at Lancaster University

An account of my visit to Haworth in Yorkshire on the trail of the Bronte Sisters... open.substack.com/pub/literarybr…

#OTD 1948 Mary Tourtel, creator of Rupert the Bear, dies aged 74 at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, a week after she collapsed in Canterbury High Street from a brain tumour. She was buried with her husband at St Martin's Church, Canterbury.

@LBFlyawayhome London (the only one of those I had). Though the Ships one looks interesting as well

Some non-fiction for you today. You can only pick one. Which one? (Please would you favourite this post, even if you don’t reply, or the algorithm will bury it) 🙏

@ClaireCoutinho Silly confected outrage! I can remember banknotes before they bore any images of people apart from the Queen. How on earth did we all cope then?!

This may seem like a small deal to some, but these reminders of our history bind us all together. Turner, Turing, Churchill, Austen. In the past it's been Elgar, Darwin, Newton, Adam Smith. We are losing those small moments in our day to remember what makes this country great.