Flanagan's Running Club – Issue 10
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Flanagan's Running Club – Issue 10 Introduction The first rule of Flanagan's Running Club is everyone should talk about Flanagan's Running Club! Feel free to forward on to anyone you want, tell people about it the works, just get them to sign up. Can I ask you all a favour, please can you review my book on Inkitt, and the link is below. Even if you don’t take time to read it properly, please flick through a few chapters, give it ratings and a review and vote for it please. It may help me get it published. https://www.inkitt.com/stories/thriller/201530 2018 Pub Crawl – The Fleet on Foot The pub crawl route has been finalised and the date is set for Saturday 28th July. The theme is to follow the route of the River Fleet, all of which is now underground in sewer tunnels, from its exit out into the Thames, all the way back upstream to the ponds of Hampstead Heath where its western tributary originated. Starting at The Blackfriar, it’s a nice easy venue to get to, as it is just outside the north bank entrance to Blackfriars Station, easily reachable from all points south. Finishing in Hampstead Heath, it’s only a five minute cab ride to West Hampstead Thameslink station where the last train back through East Croydon and as far as Three Bridges is well after midnight. No Pub Time The Blackfriar 12:00 1 174 Queen Victoria Street. EC4V 4EG The Albion 12:45 2 2-3 New Bridge Street. EC4V 6AA Sir John Oldcastle 13:30 3 29-35 Farringdon Street. EC1M 3JF The Green 14:15 4 29 Clerkenwell Green. EC1R 0DU Belgo 15:00 5 1 King's Cross Road. WC1X 9HX Meat Liquor 15:45 6 6 St Chad's Place. WC1X 9HH The Prince Albert 17:15 7 163 Royal College Street. NW1 0SG Quinns 18:00 8 65 Kentish Town Road. NW1 8NY Camden Town Brewery 19:00 9 55-59 Wilkin Street Mews. NW5 3NN Sir Robert Peel 20:00 10 108 Malden Road. NW5 4DA The Stag 21:00 11 67 Fleet Road. NW3 2QU The Garden Gate 21:45 12 14 South End Road. NW3 2QE Paradise 22:30 Food 49 South End Road. NW3 2QB On This Day – 9th July 1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. 1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island. 1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins. 1986 – The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand. It’s Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service in Azerbaijan Mapping The London Year 1877 – The first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon is held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. There was initially only a men’s singles championship, the rain-delayed final of which was held on Thursday 19 July and watched by 200 people, each of whom had paid a shilling to enter. The winner, Spencer Gore from Wandsworth, won 12 guineas and a silver challenge cup valued at 25 guineas. Analysis afterwards altered the size of the court to its current dimensions. Chuck D Presents This Day In Rap And Hip-Hop History 1981 – 20/20 airs a story on hip-hop titled “Rappin’ to the beat”. 20/20’s story on the musical genre was the first in-depth national TV spotlight on hip-hop. The story, which explored the growing “overnight phenomenon” of hip-hop featured artists such as The Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow, and Blondie, whose chart-topping 1981 single “Rapture” featured lead singer Debbie Harry rapping. The story investigated the phenomenon of break-dancing and described hip-hop as an “all beat and all talk” genre that “tells you a story and makes you want to dance.” Unlike much of hip-hop’s earliest press coverage, the 20/20 piece suggested that the music might have long-term longevity. “Rap is likely to influence popular music for years to come,” the show proclaimed. “It has tremendous staying power because it lets ordinary people express ideas they care about in language they can relate to put to music they can dance to.” 365 – Great Stories From History For Every Day Of The Year 1737 For thirteen years Gian Gastone de’ Medici had ruled as Grand Duke of Tuscany, but his few well-intentioned efforts to rebuild his state were washed away by his laziness, his alcoholism and his taste for bright young boys. Florence was now a bankrupt backwater, with only the jewels of its buildings and art treasures to remind the world of its vanished greatness, and Gian Gastone himself was the only reminder of the great Medici family that had been so vital in creating that greatness. Since Cosimo the Elder had first dominated Florence in 1434, the Medici family had produced a vast array of illustrious and prominent people. The most famous was undoubtedly Lorenzo the Magnificent, Cosimo’s grandson, the greatest art patron the world has known. Lorenzo’s son Giovanni became Pope Leo X, the first of the Medici popes. Later came Clement VII, the illegitimate grandson of Lorenzo’s father, and finally Leo XI, Lorenzo’s great-grandson. Other illustrious Medici include Alessandro, Duke of Florence (the illegitimate son of the illegitimate Pope Clement VII), and two queens of France, first Catherine de’ Medici (Lorenzo’s great-granddaughter) and then Marie, a distant cousin. By 1569 the Medici were so powerful that another Cosimo, descended from Cosimo the Elder’s brother, became the Duke of Tuscany. He was followed by five more Grand Dukes, of which the last one was Gian Gastone. In 1737 Gian Gastone was a tired 65. Given his predilection for boys, it is not surprising that he was childless. He spent most of his days in bed, beard straggling and body unwashed. Thus it was almost expected when death came to him on 9 July. And so the great Medici family came to an end after 303 years of pre-eminence. Births 1916 – Edward Heath 1945 – Dean Koontz 1947 – O. J. Simpson 1964 – Courtney Love 1975 – Jack White Deaths 2002 – Rod Steiger Number 1’s Number 1 single in 1987 - Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin Number 1 album in 1968 - The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Number 1 compilation album in 1995 - Dance Zone Level 5 Random Results 1967 - San Francisco Giants 3 - Chicago Cubs 4 2017 - Lancashire Lightning 173 - Leicestershire Foxes 178-7 Drabble A drabble is a complete story that is exactly one hundred words long. Billy In The Rain Billy sat watching the rain falling, it had been raining for ages now, and he’d got soaked. He could see people huddled in the bus shelter, trying to keep out of the rain. He noticed that the drains were struggling to disperse the water and puddles were appearing, and he knew what he had to do. He jumped into his car, drove up the road before turning around, and heading back past the bus stop as quickly as he could. Billy smiled as the water from the puddles flew up and soaked those people in the bus shelter as well. Joke A precious little girl walks into a pet shop and asks in the sweetest little lisp between two missing teeth, “Excuthe me mithter, so you keep widdle wabbits?” As the shopkeeper’s heart melts he gets down on his knees so that he’s on her level and asks, “Do you want a widdle white wabbit, or a thoft and fuwwy, bwack wabbit, or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabbit over there?” She, in turn, blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says in a tiny voice. “I don’t think my python weally gives a thit!” Random Items Fact The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Firsts 1850 – First Jeans Produced 1852 – First Cardigan made 1865 – First Wellington Boots put on the market 1886 – First Dinner Jacket made 1942 – T-Shirts introduced by the US Navy 1946 – First Bikini made. Thought Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together? Forgotten English Goles Vulgar evasions of profane oaths, all including the sacred name, combined with some other words which it might not be very difficult to conjecture. Ambrose Bierce’s Demon’s Dictionary POLITICS The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Words You Should Know Desultory Half-hearted, unmethodical, without really paying attention. Not generally used to describe a person, this is found in expressions such as in a desultory manner or, memorably in a 1940s detective novel by Georgette Heyer, the flirtation was a desultory affair, because one of the participants was worrying about the murder rather than paying attention to the girl who was attempting to flirt with him. Popular Expressions – What They Mean And Where We Got Them To give short shrift To treat someone peremptorily and unsympathetically, without heeding any mitigating arguments, or simply to make short work of something. Shrift is defined as a confession to a priest. 'Short shrift' originally referred to the limited amount of time given to a convict between condemnation, confession and absolution, and then finally execution. Rappers of the Nineties Trumps Quote(s) Snobby receptionist in Durham.