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#JukeboxFridayNight #PunkRock

I have a very punk rock anecdote about this band

My chum got on stage to sing along with the TV Personalities. He got covered in spit (both getting on the stage and spitting were punk rock things then), and caught hepatitis.

Part-time punks - TV Personalities
https://youtu.be/_pKkOOQR7_o?si=wEl-T4vixS5z_9V9

This is Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Crucifixion’ in the cloisters of Salisbury Cathedral

My dad was a welder. He did a bit of a fix-up on it. Bless him.

I took this last night when I was out plodding around Salisbury.

I like the way the shop window reflections work with the model of the Ralph Feinnes, who I vaguely remember from school.

Brilliant

#DogsCatsAndOtherPets #JukeboxFridayNight

Two that have cats being dogs or vice versa

The Cramps - Can your pussy do the dog?

https://youtu.be/_-u-qsaEuAk?si=voUmzSi-Q9QuDLOk

Norma Tanega - Walking my cat named dog

https://youtu.be/SPZVrmJ2HH8?si=f5nzLSlpgb0iyyw3

A bit of trivia - Norma Tanega lived with Dusty Springfield. I'd like to have heard Dusty doing 'Walking my cat named dog'

"May those who love us love us.
And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we’ll know them by their limping."

An Irish blessing, from iausa - Irish Sayings, Proverbs, and Prayers for St. Patrick’s Day https://www.usairish.org/new-page-2

I took this last night. It doesn’t really work as a photo, but it’s one of my favourite views of Salisbury Cathedral. It’s across two lots of water meadows - so it’s as far again away as Constables painting

It’s from close to this bit on Google Maps. Be careful of the tree roots. https://maps.app.goo.gl/ARbuKKUsmN4TbJns8

I also went to see my old pals Christopher the Giant and Hobnob in Salisbury Museum

"The Salisbury Museum is outstanding and I urge you to go there at once’.
Bill Bryson, in ‘Notes from a Small Island'"

My Crucial Track for 27 April 2026 - “The Broad Majestic Shannon” by Liam Clancy
Post a song written or co-written by one of your favorite songwriters.

“The Broad Majestic Shannon” by Liam Clancy

Shane MacGowan, sung by Liam Clancy

It’s the sort of song people criticise as being nostalgic and sentimental, but I think ‘nostalgic and sentimental ' is a big part of being human.

“The Broad Majestic Shannon” by ... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/04/27/my-crucial-track-for-april.html

For goodness sake

Rosenior sacked by Chelsea after three months in charge

⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9d4w8032vno

Well played Hungary !

My Crucial Track for 21 April 2026 - “Famine” by Kate Nash
What is your favourite cover song?

“Famine” by Kate Nash

This is certainly my favourite new cover song. It’s Kate Nash (who had a hit with Foundations and was in Glow on Netflix) doing Sinead O’Connor.

The instrumentation is different, and there’s an added verse, and it’s great. I thought Sinead O’Connor was marvellous, and it’s nice to have her work ... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/04/21/my-crucial-track-for-april.html

My Crucial Track for 01 May 2026 - “Listen to the Radio” by Nanci Griffith
Post one of your favorite country songs.

“Listen to the Radio” by Nanci Griffith

There are a bunch of things that I really like about this song. I like songs which mention other singers, and I think this is a great line:

"“where would we be at times like these without the songs Loretta wrote”"

I also like the tempo, and the piano bit, and the ... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/05/01/my-crucial-track-for-may.html

Very much enjoyed What the Night Brings.

Spotted a minor muck-up. Michael Healey’s name changed to Martin Healey at one point. I’m 99.9% sure I only noticed because my much-missed father-in-law was Michael Healy.

Editing is hard.

Finished reading: What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781408726419

Imho Pepsi tastes good in a glass, better in a can, but best in a china mug.

No Idea why

The words to “All things bright and beautiful” were published in 1848.

They were written by Cecil Frances Alexander, who lived in Strabane. 1848 was the time of the Irish ‘famine’, which makes the line about “the poor man at the gate” quite dark.

To be fair, the famine may not have had such an impact in Strabane at the time the verse was written - I don’t know.

"The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
And ordered their estate"

Reminded of this by Kate Nash’s new version of Sinead O’Connor’s song

https://youtu.be/_Vvj3shK0rk?si=jfUoZu52Po_ddXEB

While I was reading this I thought how great it was that when a writer sits down to write a book it can be anything.

It can be about Romans or rabbits, or attack ships on the shoulder of Orion, or whatever.

This one is a time slip murder mystery about a slightly flakey woman with a dysfunctional family and a random waiter.

I really enjoyed it…but the thing I thought about a book being about anything was slightly ... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/04/22/while-i-was-reading-this.html

I did a manual import of my twitter archive into matt penny tweets archive on micro.blog, and a bit of editing. It took a while…but having done all of that now I think I want to merge it in with my main micro.blog.

I’m an idiot. https://mattypenny-tweets.micro.blog/

I really enjoyed 2026 🍿

I’ve read a couple of reviews basically saying it’s not serious enough for serious times, but when it gets to Mr Trump I like that it’s about the silly and the trivial side of him.

Delighted that PSReadLine seems to be installed and on by default on Windows servers. The POC server I was mucking about on went down last night, and I thought I’d lost all the command history, which I was kind of depending on
$(Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath
…shows where the ‘treasure’ lies

The 53 best series on BBC iPlayer to stream right now

A good list of stuff to watch on the Iplayer

How to set up a scheduled task running as a managed service account

I tried to do this both in the GUI and in powershell, but whatever I did I couldn’t get past the GUI asking for a password, or this error when I ran the task
Task Scheduler did not launch task "\matttesting" because user "chelseafc.co.uk\msa$" was not logged on when the launching conditions were met. User Action: Ensure user is logged on or change the task ... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/04/21/how-to-set-up-a.html

I’m delighted for Super Frankie Lampard.

Someone wrote that he’ll always be Frank Lampard of Chelsea, and I totally agree.

Interesting as always from @iandunt.bsky.social , however ‘Rejoin’ is a rubbish word.

In the same way that ‘Brexiteer’ sounded more swash-buckling and exciting than ‘Remainer’, ‘Return’, for example, is a lot cooler than ‘Rejoin’.

Batman returns, the thin white duke returns, the magnificent seven return etc

These words matter, imho.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is ... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/04/18/interesting-as-always-from-ianduntbskysocial.html

Lots of Spurs fans in transit this morning. There’s a feeling of waiting outside the Headmaster’s office, to take their punishment

I almost feel sorry for them

Almost.

⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc