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2026-03-18 12:22:43 UTC

Just saw one of these driving up through Welford half an hour ago.
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2026-03-16 11:08:09 UTC

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not starting it in the first place might have been a far better way. Not just for prices

2026-03-12 12:11:22 UTC

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wow. What a beautiful display of varied eggs. Makes a guy want to keep a few chooks.

2026-02-22 14:46:29 UTC

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I really wish the canal system linked up to the lakes. It'd be perfect for us - we could get our two favourite things to fit together.

2026-02-21 10:51:30 UTC

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would be ironic, would it not, if the success of the brexiters in achieving their aims led indirectly to the creation of a European armed force when one of the strands of their argument was antagonism to the possibility of the creation of a pan-european armed force.

2026-02-15 11:20:21 UTC

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"Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Rowing home to haven in sunny REDACTED,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine."
Afraid of a word, they are. I honestly despair.

2026-02-14 18:59:33 UTC

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well they say "wood warms you twice - once when you cut and stack it then once more when you burn it"

2026-02-11 09:42:01 UTC

https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/116/051/340/204/560/717/original/3bf5506341fd5191.jpg

2026-01-30 11:19:36 UTC

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great pic, and yes, oh so relevant.

2026-01-20 13:17:24 UTC

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maybe your Spanish is so bad. 😉

2026-01-17 16:31:01 UTC

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nice reflected image though. Whereabouts was this?

2026-01-08 10:43:37 UTC

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I suppose that if in that period of weight loss you can use the time to develop healthier dietary and exercise habits it may still be useful. But I fear that for a proportion diet and exercise may not be so easy to apply. Yes, it's the golden ticket for the manufacturers - 'customers' for life.

2026-01-03 19:30:34 UTC

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2025-12-23 14:48:41 UTC

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indeed
: I speak as a proud Saxon (bloody normans)

2025-12-15 09:54:04 UTC

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and as we saw with the 'nightingale hospitals' it's one thing to quickly slap up a building but quite another to equip and particularly staff it, because it takes time - sometimes a lot of it - to produce suitable professional staff.

2025-12-14 13:26:17 UTC

Trying to be all things to all people. The fable of the man, the boy and the donkey to show them that that's a recipe for disaster. Not that I care if they collapse - as long as they retain enough of a rump to confound reform by splitting the ultra-bigot vote
Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election - BBC News https://share.google/so2rLDsVbNYsytAXP

2025-12-13 12:35:02 UTC

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interesting. I think the problem reform has is that though they may be fairly competent at politics they're actually not at all good at government. They can get elected but, like the dog who caught the car, haven't a clue what to do next. And it all shows pretty quickly.

2025-12-11 13:10:54 UTC

Thanks Tan. I know it was an accident but you really should be more careful with those claws mate.
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2025-12-07 15:28:12 UTC

Ooh look. #BarackObama receiving a real #NobelPeacePrize. Not a fauxbel, but a Nobel
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2025-12-06 17:54:07 UTC

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the appropriate response is for nobody to visit on his birthday if they can possibly avoid it.

2025-11-16 13:32:47 UTC

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yes. If nature is a blockage at all then it only blocks some of the massive profitability.

2025-11-06 09:53:00 UTC

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yes. As so often is the case they tend to mistakenly think that freedom of speech includes the rule that you have to listen to their bigoted drivel.

2025-11-04 13:15:21 UTC

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that item I saw yesterday about a 20% 'settling up' charge if the rich carried out their frequent threat that "if you tax us more we'll leave" was, I thought, rather brilliant. "Ok, you can check out any time you like but it'll cost you"

2025-11-01 09:21:37 UTC

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one of those vultures is saying to the others "patience be damned, I'm gonna kill something"

2025-10-23 09:40:59 UTC

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does that mean something mundane like "we need to find a solution"?
Well if so I can understand how important it was to save that one single syllable. The time saved could have been of critical importance. The time lost in trying to decode wtf they actually meant, however...

2025-10-21 09:06:15 UTC

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also, to quote another person on here the other day, all this tiresome red tape is why we don't have sawdust in our bread. Much of it is necessary because business will try and cut costs and maximise profits.

2025-10-13 10:08:12 UTC

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well I don't want to jump to conclusions here, as a Brit, but it's almost as if they don't want to, isn't it.

2025-10-08 15:18:57 UTC

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yes. I'd heard of her before. A true pioneer.

2025-10-07 10:03:53 UTC

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and invocation of the insurrection act would be yet another step towards 'state of emergency'. And "oh, I'd better remain as president and suspend elections."

2025-10-06 12:31:26 UTC

This.
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2025-09-21 13:34:09 UTC

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do you have an equivalent showing where most water is consumed (in all ways)? I suspect it wouldn't exactly match this.

2025-09-16 12:56:09 UTC

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tempt me not. I have a million commitments the compare him very unfavourably with Gandhi. Also with Attila the Hun, Genghis Kahn...

2025-08-30 11:19:51 UTC

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I say this extremely rarely but, what a bunch of c*nts. The things that happened in the past do not give a free pass for any kind of bastardry for all time.

2025-07-29 11:16:18 UTC

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I guess these unions would be the reason why bezos is so amazingly ridiculously rich then - because they do all this mean stuff.

2025-07-16 11:03:44 UTC

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those were the days, hey?

2025-07-14 09:21:18 UTC

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interesting point. "Well we'd have loved to have you address parliament but I'm afraid it's conference so there's nothing we can do..."
Unless it's a not so cunning ploy to enable a second visit..

2025-06-28 09:01:54 UTC

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I'm not really a battlefield/wartime relics person but this is one I'd like to visit. I have no idea why but it just attracts me.

2025-06-05 07:53:00 UTC

Another one? If this is how much care reform takes selecting councillors then god help us all if they ever get hold of the reins of national government. Not even amateur. Barely half arsing it.
Source: BBC
https://search.app/EnAHQ

2025-06-04 11:50:17 UTC

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2025-06-01 16:09:11 UTC

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I don't know, but something makes me suspect he hasn't read even a sentence of Mr Mamet's book.

2025-05-29 14:06:27 UTC

One of the pair of Egyptian geese, and two goslings I spotted today on the Trent at Trent lock this morning. Quite a surprise - don't think I've seen any before.
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2025-05-23 21:40:51 UTC

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it really was. I'm no McLaren fan but it was a really interesting and quirky film.

2025-05-23 13:27:21 UTC

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found a link to the tracks. I really recommend it. It's 'interesting' and at least worth a listen.
The Ghosts of Oxford Street https://g.co/kgs/aRxNdFo

2025-05-23 13:16:49 UTC

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you'll have trouble finding it. It was a film McLaren did for channel 4 back in about 1991. Various artists all themed around the mysterious history of Oxford Street. It just is really very wonderful. I had it all on CD and also saw it on TV. But all I can do is find isolated tracks now. It could do with a reissue because it's all so good. And I'm generally not a mad fan of some of the performers but the work comes together as the mythical whole that's greater than the sum of its parts.

2025-05-23 13:01:59 UTC

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tom Jones did a brilliant version of this on Malcolm McLaren's The Ghost Of Oxford Street.

2025-05-18 15:25:08 UTC

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beautiful

2025-05-14 11:03:21 UTC

Can any tree person help with this one? It's in Leicester.
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2025-04-26 07:20:00 UTC

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mind you, that doubling down on the tiny amount of benefit fraud whilst savagely cutting back on investigating and prosecuting tax fraud isn't new is it. It dates at least to Cameron and probably longer.

2025-04-19 14:56:15 UTC

The Easter border Collie. A border Collie wearing Easter bunny ears, lying down and with a basket of multi coloured eggs next to him.
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2025-04-15 08:44:38 UTC

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and it's necessary that such blatant use of insider information should be punished. Conniving at it only makes it more acceptable in future.

2025-04-08 13:32:17 UTC

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I was in my forties so can't really say I grew up with it but i agree with you.

2025-04-04 12:47:41 UTC

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I believe the subsequent owners had it felled a couple of years later.

2025-04-04 12:30:53 UTC

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that was our problem. We never realised just how much nor how fast it would grow.

2025-04-04 12:24:12 UTC

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yes. It also grew in a period of ten years from a 400mm tall sapling to the height of a three story house. It grew like bamboo.

2025-04-04 11:45:53 UTC

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lucky you. At our last house we had a contorted willow. Special aren't they

2025-04-04 11:42:09 UTC

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quite a pleasant surprise when you do find one. They're rarely obvious.

2025-04-04 11:30:55 UTC

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where is this one? We have one in Northampton and I spotted one in Chester.

2025-04-03 13:34:21 UTC

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splendid.

2025-04-03 08:48:57 UTC

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so we carry out our own boycott of American products and services.

2025-03-26 16:31:16 UTC

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Cumbria can surprise can't it.

2025-03-24 09:34:02 UTC

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in effect it's asking people to take a big chunk of what they have - probably not really much, I know we have no spare income let alone savings - and put it on a horse.

2025-03-20 09:29:01 UTC

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which additionally may well mean NQTs have to live far from their work, and commute. Adding additional costs of a car or other transport. Probably car because of the need to carry work related materials (marking etc). This making convenient housing even further out of reach.

2025-03-19 18:12:26 UTC

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whatever happened to "a free swashbuckling Britain forging ahead unfettered by the hobbles of EU bureaucracy as we reap the rewards of enterprise?".

2025-03-16 11:21:31 UTC

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my understanding of the term 'legal tender' is that if offered in payment it cannot legally be refused. However, the term refers only to currency notes, not coin. It also does not cover Scottish notes so although they are, I believe, legal tender in Scotland they aren't in England. They are valid currency though so many businesses will accept them.
Not sure about the legality of the signs one sees stating no cash accepted. I suspect it's more a case of card payments preferred. I reckon they're pushing it a bit. And people being generally unaware of the legal situation and preferring "not to make a fuss dear" let it pass.

2025-03-11 09:30:20 UTC

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if Europe wanted to annex the entire UK I'd be fine with that.

2025-03-07 12:00:26 UTC

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yes. He says he wants peace but all I say to that is to quote Calgacus, "they create a desert and call it peace". That's the kind of peace trump would help to create, the peace that a Putin victory would bring, the peace of a desert.

2025-03-05 17:48:45 UTC

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an old friends mother used to breed quail back in the 70s and after an evening out me, him and a couple of other friends sat around and watched a quail egg hatch on the palm of one of the young ladies with us. Was kind of a wonderful experience.

2025-02-15 09:22:16 UTC

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so true. There's a reason we bought hi-fi separates. Every step from stylus to speakers the best we could get.*
*Afford.

2025-02-11 14:56:51 UTC

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keep on ridiculing them. They really hate it.

2025-02-09 11:08:02 UTC

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this has a ring to it of hitlers original plan for Jews and so on. To resettle in, I'm not sure but I think it was Mozambique. Before he found it was impracticable and decided that extermination in death camps was far easier.
We should all be watching closely.

2025-02-08 17:52:13 UTC

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seventies. And I know people older than me who are still protesting.

2025-02-02 11:55:16 UTC

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perhaps the hellscape he's heading the usa towards with all the recklessness of a landslide will stand as a good example of those people considering aping him. I fear it may be too late for America but perhaps others can pull back from the brink before they plunge over.

2025-01-28 17:07:24 UTC

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it's bad enough already with the number of people who are happy to say they're no good at maths and science, a number that I feel is rising. Almost a badge of pride. I find it disturbing.

2025-01-02 18:27:46 UTC

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toying with the idea of continuing to call it 2024 for the foreseeable.

2024-12-26 12:51:18 UTC

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a bit late for my boost but consider it an early one for next Christmas. And the rest of the hunting season too.

2024-12-24 22:19:55 UTC

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honestly, they do look so shark like don't they. Italian style...

2024-12-21 12:19:24 UTC

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if that's not rhetorical then my feeling is it's the latter. I hope that's the case because an untrammeled trump is not an inviting prospect. Not even from the relatively safe UK.

2024-12-14 18:49:58 UTC

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oh yes. Stayed at Shap near haweswater on c2c but also stayed at Keld under Tan Hill on same walk. Was mildly confused.

2024-12-14 15:03:39 UTC

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oh lovely. That area around Keld and Reeth is one of my favourites.

2024-12-14 12:27:28 UTC

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wow. We went there once. Who'd have guessed the hall had such a fine roof too.

2024-12-13 18:40:16 UTC

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she will learn that it doesn't get much easier, the nature of the worries just change. We still worry about our eldest, who is 42.

2024-12-13 17:19:58 UTC

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I think my daughter might be feeling like that round about now. Two. One aged two and the other aged four.

2024-12-12 12:05:35 UTC

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ooh that takes me back. Staffed level crossings. Haven't seen one since probably the sixties.

2024-12-11 13:44:47 UTC

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anywhere not Britain. I'd quite fancy Morocco - I could live there happily.

2024-12-09 14:33:26 UTC

Um, it wasn't. The clue is in the word mythical
Where Was Mythical Atlantis Located? https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/08/mythical-atlantis-located/

2024-12-04 18:31:21 UTC

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sorry?

2024-12-04 17:53:37 UTC

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well, promoted beyond her level of competence. A common problem in government.

2024-12-03 09:45:14 UTC

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sometimes, you know, I find myself thinking we'd be better off if corporations like newscorp had never existed.

2024-11-27 10:17:14 UTC

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nice. Days like yesterday are the ones I most wish I lived in Cumbria or the Dales

2024-11-25 10:40:53 UTC

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I'm sure if they keep trying it'll work eventually.

2024-11-24 12:38:18 UTC

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yes. It's one of those questions to which there seems no clear answer. I think it's often an excuse for people to give nothing though. There are too many probable myths surrounding the issue and most seem to be an avoidance tactic. No data to support my view of course, but I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt.

2024-11-14 11:37:07 UTC

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I meant we citizens of other states who don't even live in the USA but due to the power of the US will find out lives impacted by the actions of this rogue leader.

2024-11-14 10:08:44 UTC

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indeed. We never even had a chance to vote but we will have to suffer it.

2024-11-10 11:09:37 UTC

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personally I'm not really into blame politics. It doesn't move things forward, it doesn't help anyone. The word realpolitik is a useful one to keep in mind, it helps one cope. And you do have to deal with the world as it is - not as it was, could be, or should be.
So I've tried to ignore all that.

2024-11-06 21:34:41 UTC

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France demands the return of their statue.

2024-11-03 19:41:17 UTC

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but as someone has stated, "I'm not as afraid of the maga riots if trump loses as I am of the camps if he wins"

2024-10-30 08:36:01 UTC

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nice Freudian slip there - "court out"👏

2024-10-30 08:08:28 UTC

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if we hear any of that final four it shouldn't be merely bonus points - it should be an instant Bingo! Even if they're the first things she says.

2024-10-30 08:02:19 UTC

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many here may talk about the Scandinavian model but I don't think so many appreciate the full extent of the changes that would be needed. Too many don't realise, or ignore, what this 'funneling more through the state' means and would baulk at the prospect of higher taxes. We have the fixed notion that we could somehow have a high support structure and at the same time have low taxes. And I'm not just talking personal taxation - there'd need to be greater government involvement across the board. And perhaps a less adversarial political model.

2024-10-23 15:13:03 UTC

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I see no connection between the two factors he cites.