Gillian Roffey 💙

resident of Walthamstow, gig-goer

[Del Amitri @delamitrinews]

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🎵Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?

It took me years to write, will you take a look?🎵

Now available in paperback!

For your chance to win a signed copy simply share and like this post!

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[Del Amitri @delamitrinews]

📅 On this day in 1990, Del Amitri released “Move Away Jimmy Blue”

One of Justin Currie’s finest songs, it remains a standout from the Waking Hours era and a fan favourite to this day.

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

Released in 1993, James Ivory's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel was nominated for 8 Oscars. However, it was largely shut out due to the dominance of Schindler's List. Don't miss THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, showing from 70mm on 12th, 14th & 18th June. 🎟️ https://t.co/RY2TuyqirU

[Time Out Theatre @TimeOutTheatre]

Review: War Horse, National Theatre - Twenty years on and the National Theatre’s First World War-set megahit is still shockingly good
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[Del Amitri @delamitrinews]

34 years ago today, Del Amitri released Change Everything.

Featuring Always The Last To Know, Be My Downfall, Just Like A Man and When You Were Young.

It became the band’s highest-charting studio album in the UK, reaching No. 2.

Fuck Lionel Richie. 😉

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[Dave Ross @DaveAmitri]

Change Everything by @delamitrinews Released on 1st June 1992 it contains Be My Downfall, Just Like A Man and many other magical Justin Currie songs. It came at a pivotal moment in my life and remains hugely important to me. It also includes this

https://t.co/Ng0FWvAaLn

[David Gilmour @davidgilmour]

Twenty years ago today, David Gilmour played the first of three shows at London's Royal Albert Hall, with a very special guest appearance for Comfortably Numb from David Bowie, in what sadly turned out to be Bowie's final ever appearance on a UK stage.

On Sunday at 5pm BST / 12noon ET / 6pm CET, the entire show, released as Remember That Night, will premiere on David's YouTube (where you can watch the full performance of Comfortably Numb now).

[roflhoff @madmunk]

Pretend you're Les Dennis by putting your arm around a stranger at the train station while looking up at the departure board.

[David Gilmour @davidgilmour]

My dear friend Dick Parry died this morning.

Since I was seventeen, I have played in bands with Dick on saxophone, including Pink Floyd.

His feel and tone make his saxophone playing unmistakable, a signature of enormous beauty that is known to millions and is such a big part of songs such as Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Us and Them and Money.

He played in the last band I had that included Rick Wright for the On An Island Tour and at Live 8 with Pink Floyd.

Here are some pictures of him, including one of him and me playing for the ABC Minors at the Victoria Cinema in Cambridge in 1963.

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Retiring from the British Army can be complicated...

Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.

The letter read:

“Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,

We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366.

Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Army Paymaster”

Col Maclaren replied:

“Dear Paymaster,

Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month.

I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.

By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.

I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”

A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col Maclaren’s letter box, it read:

“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,

We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst.

We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month.

We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586,619.47p.

However,

We also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles:

*The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton)

*The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland)

*The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War)

*The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade)

*The Boer War (1899 -1902).

We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:

*9765 Cannon
*26,785 Swords
*12,889 Pikes
*127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
*28,987 horses (fully kitted)

Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.

We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p.

WE have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.

Yours sincerely . . . .”

[Dennis Locorriere @DrHookOfficial]

Via @TeamDrHook

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Another gentle little soul was taken from us this morning.
The person who wielded the strimmer probably still has no idea this girl paid with her life for their 'neat' edges.
But there is good news.
This poor darling, missing her front leg, dragged herself out to where a lovely couple noticed her.
She was curled into a neat ball, no sign of her catastrophic injury, but this couple had seen good correct advice; that a hedgehog out in the day in the open is *always* in trouble and needs help, and so rang me for advice.
Frustratingly, a organisation that collects donations to fund questionable 'research', ironically called The British Hedgehog Preservation Society, publish 'advice' on their website, despite having no knowledge or experience of hedgehog rescue or care.
This poor and fatally misleading 'advice' is that hedgehogs seen out in the day could be mums, so to leave them alone.
This is so irresponsible and extremely dangerous.
And just not true, as it's an incredibly rare and evident event (please see infogram below).
This no doubt well-meaning but fatally wrong advice has caused so much suffering, and hundreds of unnecessary deaths.
Sadly it's believed by many members of the public, and is still being propagated today by small hobbyist 'rescues' - individuals who are unacquainted with the scientific and medical facts, and desperately hold on to this profoundly ignorant and lethal fallacy.
If this poor girl's finder had been someone who believed this misconception she would have been left to suffer a horrendous agonising death, most likely by being predated alive.
But thanks to this lovely couple who did the right thing, this poor darling was immediately given a potent analgesic, and then a gentle death with no pain, and no fear.
A hedgehog can't survive and thrive with a missing leg, especially a front weight-bearing leg.
Below is her admittance and examination this morning.
(It's terrifying for a wild animal to be handled by a human so once I spot the injury I take a photo, so I can take my time studying the image, not the casualty, thus reducing handing time.)
So please, don't strim - leave those edges for our precious insects.
And please spread this information far and wide, to help save lives.
More info: https://t.co/h56b209KjX

[Adrian Edmondson ❎ @AdrianEdmondson]

So bored of news outlets trying to write the news rather than report it.

[Hot Dinners @hotdinners]

London has some GREAT sandwiches right now. Here's where to hunt down the very best:
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[BBC London @BBCLondonNews]

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough!

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[Doves @dovesmusicblog]

We're looking forward to playing Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London on Friday, September 25th. Tickets are on sale now at https://t.co/TC6StvsAMA

[Del Amitri @DelAmitri]

Thrilled to take delivery of The Little Green Monster, my beautiful new custom hand-built bass from https://t.co/al9RypO7bj

Perfectly formed but sounds like a monster.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Hi @ElectoralCommUK

Can you please look into this ASAP.

It appears to be both highly illegal and highly immoral.

Please RT if you agree this is deeply concerning.

[Reuters @Reuters]

David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 https://t.co/Bj5DpBIY7w https://t.co/Bj5DpBIY7w