please empty your brain below
I can confirm the toasts were still hanging from the tree on Sunday. Looking forward to Valentine's day/weekend, when Rotherhithians will stage an arts festival, involving the shaft.

commonliner | 18.01.16 - 7:56 a.m. | #

1800 and 1900 were leap years in the Julian calendar but not the Gregorian, so the calendars have drifted apart by a further two days since 1752 and are now 13 days apart. Consequently, today (January 18th in the Gregorian calendar) is January 5th in the Julian calendar, and Twelfth Night is tonight.

timbo | 18.01.16 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Could we please kill this myth that it was the first underwater tunnel ever dug? It might have been the first successful one. The first underwater tunnel flooded after reaching the low water mark on the other side. It might not have been successful and never managed to surface on the far side but it was the first underwater one - and nearby too.

See, for example, the Wikipedia entry for Thames Archway Company.

Pedantic of Purley | 18.01.16 - 9:11 a.m. | #

I always go to the one performed by the Lions Part Company on Bankside. Waes hael!

http://www.thelionspart.co.uk/twelfthnight/

Cornish Cockney | 18.01.16 - 10:37 a.m. | #

So that's why the forecast is for higher temperatures and the return of the wet murk later on this week?

Bah! But no Humbug!

Bronchitikat | Homepage | 18.01.16 - 10:51 a.m. | #

You know (well if you didn't you do now) I got enough problems at the moment...if I start singing to trees (apple ones or otherwise) it quite possible I'll get locked-up (again ;)

E | 18.01.16 - 2:22 p.m. | #

Apparently the Old English term "was hál" means "be you healthy". This reminds me of that wonderful Irish comedian Dave Allen, who had a keen appreciation of irony, saying that in drinking other people's health you stuff up your own.

Great Aunt Annie | 18.01.16 - 8:53 p.m. | #

Hello to Jason Isaacs!

Mark | 18.01.16 - 9:33 p.m. | #

This looks terribly dull.

Tim | Homepage | 19.01.16 - 8:00 p.m. | #











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