Charles Searson

Writer, journalist, classically trained musician, apprentice DJ, heritage bus driver, fluent Italian. Sober since 2022. I love things that are great.

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

Simple harmonic progressions heralding the future in music. If you recognise the greatness of Wagner's achievement in spite of his purported antisemitism, given that he has been championed by scholars including the Jewish conductor Daniel Barenboim, we should follow one another.

[KATY PERRY @katyperry]

I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.

I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.

My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

Correct

[Motivation @mylovliving]

Protecting time for creative thoughts prevents burnout and keeps daily tasks feeling purposeful.

[Bygone Britain @BygoneBritain]

The golden age of steam is a beautiful thing to look back on. 🚂⏳️

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@Only9built Oui. I've owned this one since 1992 : )

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@Only9built Thought the 304 had more successful styling but there are hardly any of either left. This was the last 304 I saw, at the side of the road at Champlitte, eastern France, summer 2018.

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@Only9built Chocolate in an ice cream cornet

[Modernism in Metroland @mod_in_metro]

Sudbury Town Underground Station was opened OTD in 1931. It was the first of Charles Holden’s “Sudbury Boxes”, a brick ticket hall with a concrete roof, a form he would reuse with his most famous stations. Read more about the station and its design here https://t.co/V0rmNTVtH0

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@Only9built Le car le plus cool des années 1960 : )

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

A grammar book walks into a bar

* An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

* A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

* A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

* An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

* Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

* A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

* Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

* A question mark walks into a bar?

* A non sequitur walks into a bar.
In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

* Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

* A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

* A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

* Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

* A synonym strolls into a tavern.

* At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

* A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

* Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

* A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

* An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

* The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

* A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

* The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

* A dyslexic walks into a bra.

* A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

* A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

* A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

* A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony .

– Jill Thomas Doyle

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

Turin plates : )

[Retromania 52K+ 🆑assics & M🅾️torsport Lovers @Retromania4ever]

🟦⬜🟥 1972 #Simca 1000 Rallye

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@ChairByTheLift : )

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

Wish he'd get out of the way of the marvellous Bristol FLF Lodekka behind him : )

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

11 July 1916. Reg Varney was born in London. He’s best known for playing Stan Butler in the ITV comedy sitcom On The Buses. He also officially opened Britain’s 1st cash dispenser in 1967 at Barclays Bank, Enfield, London and was the 1st member of the public to use it.

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@_Z_A_M_I_E_ I can drive double-decker buses : )

[Cyrill Ibrahim @cyrillibrahim]

Mozart needed to get people through the door.
Beethoven wrote for rooms full of people who felt things loudly.
! The formality came later.

[Modernism in Metroland @mod_in_metro]

Ticket Hall, Euston Railway Station

1968

British Rail London Midland Region Architects Dept.

https://t.co/5Hzwoqb6Kl

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@SeanB95926 @lessismoremike Well done!

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

“You,Boy!
British politics needs help.
Get me a man dressed as a bin!”

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Tree of the Day

[Charles Searson @Charles_Searson]

@YesterdaysBrit1 The town on the east coast that faces west : )

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you do anything in life, bring THIS energy